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.

Hosea 7:14 Contrast

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.

Psalm 6:6 Parallel

In Psalm 6:6, the psalmist floods his bed with tears — mirroring the torrent of tears here, both expressing desperate lament before God.

Psalm 137:1 Parallel

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.