Isaiah 22:4 “Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try…”

Isaiah 22:4

Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

World English Bible

Therefore I said, “Look away from me. I will weep bitterly. Don’t labor to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

American Standard Version

Therefore said I, Look away from me, I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Geneva Bible 1599

Therefore said I, Turne away from me: I wil weepe bitterly: labour not to comfort mee for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Darby Translation

Therefore said I, Look away from me; let me weep bitterly: labour not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.

Young's Literal Translation

Therefore I said, 'Look ye from me, I am bitter in my weeping, Haste not to comfort me, For the destruction of the daughter of my people.'

Bible in Basic English

For this cause I have said, Let your eyes be turned away from me in my bitter weeping; I will not be comforted for the wasting of the daughter of my people.

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Cross references

“Look”

Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 13:17 Jeremiah 4:19 Luke 1:2 Ruth 1:20 Ruth 1:21

Jeremiah 9:1 · BSB

Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

Jeremiah 13:17 · BSB

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 4:19 · BSB

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

Luke 1:2 · BSB

just as they were handed down to us by the initial eyewitnesses and servants of the word.

Ruth 1:20 · BSB

“Do not call me Naomi, ” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

Ruth 1:21 · BSB

I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

“Weep bitterly”

Micah 1:8 Isaiah 33:7 Jeremiah 6:26 Matthew 26:75

Micah 1:8 · BSB

Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.

Isaiah 33:7 · BSB

Behold, their valiant ones cry aloud in the streets; the envoys of peace weep bitterly.

Jeremiah 6:26 · BSB

O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

Matthew 26:75 · BSB

Then Peter remembered the word that Jesus had spoken: “Before the rooster crows, you will deny Me three times.” And he went outside and wept bitterly.

“labour”

Matthew 2:18 Psalm 77:2 Jeremiah 31:15 Jeremiah 8:18

Matthew 2:18 · BSB

“A voice is heard in Ramah, weeping and great mourning, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Psalm 77:2 · BSB

In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.

Jeremiah 31:15 · BSB

This is what the LORD says: “A voice is heard in Ramah, mourning and great weeping, Rachel weeping for her children and refusing to be comforted, because they are no more.”

Jeremiah 8:18 · BSB

My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.

Also

Isaiah 15:3 Luke 19:41

Isaiah 15:3 · BSB

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

Luke 19:41 · BSB

As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

3All your rulers have fled together, captured without a bow. All your fugitives were captured together, having fled to a distant place.

5For the Lord GOD of Hosts has set a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the Valley of Vision— of breaking down the walls and crying to the mountains.

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