Kejadian 44:34

44:34 For how can I go back to my father if the boy is not with me? I couldn’t bear to see¹ my father’s pain.”²

Yeremia 4:19

4:19 I said,³

“Oh, the feeling in the pit of my stomach!⁴

I writhe in anguish.

Oh, the pain in my heart!⁵

My heart pounds within me.

I cannot keep silent.

For I hear the sound of the trumpet;⁶

the sound of the battle cry pierces my soul!⁷

Yeremia 9:1

9:1 (8:23)⁸ I wish that my head were a well full of water⁹

and my eyes were a fountain full of tears!

If they were, I could cry day and night

for those of my dear people¹⁰ who have been killed.

Lukas 19:41-42

Jesus Weeps for Jerusalem under Judgment

19:41 Now¹¹ when Jesus¹² approached¹³ and saw the city, he wept over it, 19:42 saying, “If you had only known on this day,¹⁴ even you, the things that make for peace!¹⁵ But now they are hidden¹⁶ from your eyes.

Roma 9:2-3

9:2 I have great sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.¹⁷ 9:3 For I could wish¹⁸ that I myself were accursed – cut off from Christ – for the sake of my people,¹⁹ my fellow countrymen,²⁰

Roma 10:1

10:1 Brothers and sisters,²¹ my heart’s desire and prayer to God on behalf of my fellow Israelites²² is for their salvation.