Lamentations 2:18
Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
Cross-reference
Lamentations 2:8 describes God tearing down the wall that is then called to weep — same wall personified earlier.
Lamentations 3:49 emphasizes tears without ceasing or respite, mirroring the command for no relief here.
Lamentations 1:2 depicts Zion weeping bitterly at night — the same theme of relentless tears as in this verse.
In Lamentations 1:16, the speaker weeps with flowing tears and no comforter — reinforcing the same call for unceasing weeping over Jerusalem's fall.
Lamentations 3:48 uses the same river of tears imagery, directly tying personal sorrow to the nation's destruction.
In contrast, Hosea 7:14 criticizes those who do not cry to God from their hearts — opposite of the sincere heart-cry here.
In Jeremiah 9:1, the prophet wishes for a fountain of tears to weep day and night for the slain — directly echoing the unceasing tears command.
Jeremiah 9:18 describes professional mourners' eyes running with tears, reinforcing the command for unceasing weeping.
In Jeremiah 13:17, the prophet weeps bitterly with running tears over the captivity, mirroring the relentless weeping call.
Jeremiah 14:17 directly commands eyes to run with tears night and day without ceasing over the shattered daughter — almost identical phrasing.
In Psalm 6:6, the psalmist floods his bed with tears — mirroring the torrent of tears here, both expressing desperate lament before God.
In Psalm 137:1, exiles weep by Babylon's waters remembering Zion — the same grief over Jerusalem's fall that drives the tears commanded here.
Habakkuk 2:11 has stones crying out from the wall — a similar personification of the wall crying against injustice.
In Ezekiel 24:16, God forbids Ezekiel to weep over his wife's death — in sharp contrast to the command here to let tears stream without rest over Jerusalem.
In Jeremiah 4:31, Daughter Zion cries out in labor pains, echoing the desperate weeping call over Jerusalem.
Isaiah 26:16 describes people crying out in distress under God's discipline — the same situation as the weeping here.
Isaiah 26:17 uses labor-pain cries as a simile for distress, similar to the intense weeping of Zion's wall here.
Psalm 119:136 also speaks of streams of tears, but for disobedience to the law rather than national calamity — a different cause.