Cross references

Jeremiah 4:31

For I hear a cry like a woman in labor,

a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—

the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath,

stretching out her hands to say,

“Woe is me,

for my soul faints before the murderers!”

Jeremiah 4:31 BSB

Jeremiah 4:31 has 32 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Isaiah 1:15 (5 votes) and Lamentations 1:17 (5 votes). 26 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 3 to 1 Thessalonians 5.

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Which verses does Jeremiah 4:31 point to?

The 20 strongest of 32, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.

  2. Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

  3. What will you say when He sets over you close allies whom you yourself trained? Will not pangs of anguish grip you, as they do a woman in labor?

  4. Then Rebekah said to Isaac, “I am weary of my life because of these Hittite women. If Jacob takes a Hittite wife from among them, what good is my life?”

  5. Job 10:12 votes

    “I loathe my own life; I will express my complaint and speak in the bitterness of my soul.

  6. Woe to me that I dwell in Meshech, that I live among the tents of Kedar!

  7. Isaiah 6:52 votes

    Then I said: “Woe is me, for I am ruined, because I am a man of unclean lips dwelling among a people of unclean lips; for my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of Hosts.”

  8. Terror, pain, and anguish will seize them; they will writhe like a woman in labor. They will look at one another, their faces flushed with fear.

  9. Therefore my body is filled with anguish. Pain grips me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am bewildered to hear, I am dismayed to see.

  10. “I have kept silent from ages past; I have remained quiet and restrained. But now I will groan like a woman in labor; I will at once gasp and pant.

  11. Though she is beautiful and delicate, I will destroy the Daughter of Zion.

Which verses point to Jeremiah 4:31?

The 10 strongest of 26.