Cross references

Lamentations 1:20

See, O LORD, how distressed I am!

I am churning within;

my heart is pounding within me,

for I have been most rebellious.

Outside, the sword bereaves;

inside, there is death.

Lamentations 1:20 BSB

Lamentations 1:20 has 27 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 5 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Lamentations 2:11 (5 votes) and Ezekiel 7:15 (5 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 13 other books, from Leviticus 26 to Luke 18.

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Which verses does Lamentations 1:20 point to?

The 20 strongest of 27, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

  2. The sword is outside; plague and famine are within. Those in the country will die by the sword, and those in the city will be devoured by famine and plague.

  3. Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.

  4. He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but whoever confesses and renounces them will find mercy.

  5. Therefore my heart laments for Moab like a harp, my inmost being for Kir-heres.

  6. Job 30:273 votes

    I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

  7. My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

  8. But if they will confess their iniquity and that of their fathers in the unfaithfulness that they practiced against Me, by which they have also walked in hostility toward Me— and I acted with hostility toward them and brought them into the land of their enemies—and if their uncircumcised hearts will be humbled and they will make amends for their iniquity, …

  9. and when they come to their senses in the land to which they were taken, and they repent and plead with You in the land of their captors, saying, ‘We have sinned and done wrong; we have acted wickedly,’ and when they return to You with all their heart and soul in the land of the enemies who took them captive, and when they pray to You in the direction of the land that You gave to their fathers, the city You have chosen, and the house I have built for Your Name, …

  10. Job 33:272 votes

    Then he sings before men with these words: ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right; yet I did not get what I deserved.

  11. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are disjointed. My heart is like wax; it melts away within me.

  12. Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

Which verses point to Lamentations 1:20?

The 10 strongest of 16.