Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Cross-reference
Lamentations 1:2 also describes weeping with no comforter, directly parallel to the lament here over lost comfort.
Lamentations 1:5 explains that the enemy's victory and children's captivity are punishment for sins, providing the cause for the weeping in 1:16.
Lamentations 1:9 includes 'none to comfort her', another instance of the same motif of abandonment and affliction.
Lamentations 1:17 expands on the lack of comfort — 'none to comfort her' — same theme.
Lamentations 1:21 repeats 'none to comfort me' and gloating enemies, reinforcing the lament.
Lamentations 4:2-10 elaborates on the children's desolation and starvation, showing the depth of the calamity mentioned here.
Lamentations 3:48 repeats the image of flowing tears for the people's destruction, parallel to the lament here.
Lamentations 3:48 also has streams of tears for the destruction of people, matching the weeping over Jerusalem's fall.
In Lamentations 2:20-22, the same horror of children destroyed and no comforter is expanded with gruesome details of the siege.
Lamentations 2:18 calls for tears to flow like a river, echoing the weeping and plea for comfort in this verse.
Lamentations 2:11 parallels the weeping eyes and the suffering of children, reinforcing the depth of grief.
Lamentations 3:17 says 'thou hast removed my soul far off from peace,' similar to the distant comforter.
Romans 9:1-3 has Paul in great sorrow and unceasing anguish for his Israelites kinsmen, similar to Lamentations' weeping over the people's desolation.
Luke 19:41-44 shows Jesus weeping over Jerusalem's coming destruction, echoing Lamentations' tears over the same city's fall, now with the comforter present.
Hosea 9:12 warns that God will bereave children when He departs, directly connecting to Lamentations' children desolate and comforter far away.
Jeremiah 14:17 commands eyes to run with tears day and night over the shattered daughter of God's people, nearly identical to Lamentations' weeping.
Jeremiah 13:17 weeps bitterly with eyes running down tears because the LORD's flock is taken captive, mirroring Lamentations' tears over desolate children.
Jeremiah 9:1 expresses the same desire for a fountain of tears to weep for the slain of God's people, directly paralleling Lamentations' grief.
In Isaiah 51:19, the same question of no comforter arises after devastation, echoing this verse's lament.
Amos 5:2 says Israel's virgin has fallen with none to raise her, paralleling the desolate children with no comforter.
Luke 13:34 shows Jesus weeping over Jerusalem's children who refuse his gathering — a NT parallel of the lament.
Psalm 137:1 captures the same weeping in exile, remembering Zion’s destruction as lamented here.
In Isaiah 54:11, the afflicted one is described as 'not comforted,' mirroring the lack of comfort here, but with a promise of restoration.
In Jeremiah 9:21, death cuts off children from the streets, foreshadowing the same desolation of children lamented here.
Jeremiah 9:10 takes up weeping and wailing over the desolate land, echoing the mourning for destruction seen in Lamentations.
Jeremiah 8:18 echoes the same sorrow with no comfort, as the prophet's heart faints.
Psalm 119:136 also speaks of tears streaming, but over disobedience to God's law, while Lamentations weeps over national destruction and lack of comfort.