Jeremiah 14:17
Therefore thou shalt say this word unto them; Let mine eyes run down with tears night and day, and let them not cease: for the virgin daughter of my people is broken with a great breach, with a very grievous blow.
Cross-reference
Jeremiah 30:15 asks why cry out over an incurable wound, directly continuing the wound imagery from Jeremiah 14:17.
Jeremiah 30:14 describes a 'blow of an enemy' and grievous wound, matching the great wound and blow in Jeremiah 14:17.
In Jeremiah 13:17, he weeps bitterly in secret for the captive flock—another instance of tears over judgment.
In Jeremiah 9:1, he wishes for a fountain of tears to weep day and night—an intensified version of the same weeping for the slain.
In Jeremiah 8:21, 'the wound of the daughter of my people' wounds the prophet—identical imagery of shared grief.
In Jeremiah 8:18, the same personal grief is expressed: 'my heart is sick.' Both show the prophet's sorrow over Judah's calamity.
In Jeremiah 46:11, the same 'virgin daughter' metaphor and incurable wound imagery is applied to Egypt, echoing the lament for Judah.
Jeremiah 30:12 declares the people's hurt incurable and wound grievous — directly echoing the description here.
Jeremiah 18:13 indicts 'virgin Israel' for a horrible sin — the cause behind the wound mourned here.
Jeremiah 9:18 also says 'let our eyes run down with tears' — a near verbatim call to weep for the people's disaster.
Jeremiah 6:26 calls the same 'daughter of my people' to bitter mourning, intensifying the lament commanded here.
Jeremiah 6:14 accuses false prophets of healing the wound lightly, contrasting with the grievous blow mourned here.
In Jeremiah 4:19, the prophet's own anguished cry mirrors the weeping commanded here — both express deep sorrow over impending judgment.
Jeremiah 4:11 uses the exact phrase 'daughter of my people' in a similar context of impending judgment — same book, same lament.
Jeremiah 17:16 shows the prophet did not desire the day of sorrow, reinforcing the sincerity of the weeping commanded here.
Jeremiah 17:18 prays for double destruction on persecutors, contrasting with the lament for the people's wound here.
Jeremiah 31:13 promises God will turn mourning into joy, contrasting with the present weeping commanded here.
Jeremiah 23:9 has the prophet's heart broken over false prophets, paralleling the grief for the people's wound here.
Lamentations 2:13 laments the 'virgin daughter of Zion' whose ruin is vast, echoing the grievous blow to the virgin daughter in Jeremiah 14:17.
Lamentations 2:18 commands tears to stream day and night without respite, mirroring the unceasing weeping in Jeremiah 14:17.
Lamentations 3:48 uses identical language: 'My eyes flow with rivers of tears because of the destruction of the daughter of my people.'
Lamentations 3:49 continues the same thought of ceaseless weeping, directly paralleling the unstopping tears in Jeremiah 14:17.
Amos 5:2 declares the fallen virgin Israel with none to raise her, paralleling the shattered virgin daughter in Jeremiah 14:17.
Micah 6:13 reveals the divine source of the 'grievous blow' Jeremiah weeps over — God striking Israel for sin.
Lamentations 1:16 echoes the same weeping over Jerusalem's devastation, with eyes flowing tears because the comforter is far off.
In Lamentations 2:11, the same weeping eyes and 'daughter of my people' lament over Jerusalem's destruction intensifies the grief.
Isaiah 23:12 uses 'virgin daughter' for Sidon's judgment — same personification as Jeremiah's 'virgin daughter of my people' in a different nation's doom.
Psalm 6:6 describes flooding the bed with tears nightly — same vivid intensity of weeping as Jeremiah's ceaseless tears for the nation.
In 2 Kings 22:19, Josiah's weeping over judgment leads to mercy — contrast to Jeremiah's tears where judgment is not averted.
2 Kings 19:21 personifies Jerusalem as 'virgin daughter of Zion' defiant against enemies — opposite of Jeremiah's shattered daughter.
In Psalm 119:136, the psalmist weeps over those who break God's law—a parallel lament of sorrow over sin's consequences.
In Psalm 80:5, God gives tears to drink as judgment—a related image of forced tears, but here they are on the people, not the prophet.