Lamentations 1:22

Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

Cross-reference

Lamentations 1:8 confesses the sin that justifies the judgment prayed for in verse 22 — Jerusalem's transgressions led to her removal.

Lamentations 1:21 sets up the plea for enemy judgment that verse 22 completes — both call for God to repay evildoers.

Lamentations 1:13 describes the fire and net God sent, causing the faintness that leads to the plea in verse 22.

Lamentations 5:17 repeats the motif of a sick heart from suffering — mirroring the faint heart at the end of verse 22.

Nehemiah 4:4 is a prayer to turn taunts back on enemies — parallel imprecation asking God to repay.

Nehemiah 4:5 asks God not to cover guilt — matching the plea to bring evil before God.

Psalm 109:14 prays for sins to be remembered — same desire for God to see and punish.

Psalm 109:15 asks for enemies to be before God continually — echoes 'let all their evil come before you'.

Psalm 137:7-9 calls for repayment on Edom and Babylon — direct parallel to this imprecatory prayer.

In Jeremiah 18:23, Jeremiah similarly prays for God not to forgive his enemies' sins — the same imprecatory plea for divine retribution.

Jeremiah 51:35 echoes the same cry for vengeance: Jerusalem calls for Babylon to suffer the violence it inflicted.

Revelation 6:10 shows martyrs crying for vengeance on their persecutors — identical plea for God to avenge blood.

Jeremiah 45:3 shares the same language of sighing and fainting (Baruch's lament), echoing the sufferer's cry in Lamentations — both express deep anguish.

Jeremiah 8:18 voices Jeremiah's own grief and sickness of heart — the same tone of lament as the faint heart here.