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Lamentations 2:18

The hearts of the people

cry out to the Lord.

O wall of the Daughter of Zion,

let your tears run down like a river

day and night.

Give yourself no relief,

and your eyes no rest.

Lamentations 2:18 BSB
  1. a Literally Their heart cries out to the Lord.

Lamentations 2:18 has 14 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 7 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Psalm 119:145 (7 votes) and Psalm 119:136 (5 votes). 16 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Deuteronomy 28 to Habakkuk 2.

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Which verses does Lamentations 2:18 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Psalm 119:1457 votes

    I call with all my heart; answer me, O LORD! I will obey Your statutes.

  2. Psalm 119:1365 votes

    My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.

  3. Jeremiah 9:15 votes

    Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

  4. Lamentations 1:165 votes

    For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

  5. Lamentations 2:85 votes

    The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

  6. Lamentations 3:48–495 votes

    Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people. My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,

  7. Hosea 7:144 votes

    They do not cry out to Me from their hearts when they wail upon their beds. They slash themselves for grain and new wine, but turn away from Me.

  8. Isaiah 26:16–173 votes

    O LORD, they sought You in their distress; when You disciplined them, they poured out a quiet prayer. As a woman with child about to give birth writhes and cries out in pain, so were we in Your presence, O LORD.

  9. Jeremiah 13:173 votes

    But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

  10. Jeremiah 14:173 votes

    You are to speak this word to them: ‘My eyes overflow with tears; day and night they do not cease, for the virgin daughter of my people has been shattered by a crushing blow, a severely grievous wound.

  11. Lamentations 1:23 votes
  12. Habakkuk 2:113 votes
  13. Jeremiah 4:312 votes
  14. Jeremiah 9:17–182 votes

    This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water.

Which verses point to Lamentations 2:18?

The 10 strongest of 16.