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Deuteronomy 28:41
You will father sons and daughters but they will not remain yours, because they will go into captivity.
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Joel 3:6
and sold the sons of Judah and Jerusalem to the Greeks in order to remove them far from their territory,
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2 Chronicles 29 9
For behold, our fathers have fallen by the sword, and our sons, our daughters, and our wives are in captivity because of this.
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Psalms 119:82
My eyes fail with longing for Your word, While I say,“ When will You comfort me?”
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Psalms 119:123
My eyes fail with longing for Your salvation, And for Your righteous word.
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Nehemiah 5:2-5
For there were those who said,“ We, our sons, and our daughters are many; therefore let’s get grain so that we may eat and live.”And there were others who said,“ We are mortgaging our fields, our vineyards, and our houses so that we might get grain because of the famine.”There also were those who said,“ We have borrowed money for the king’s tax on our fields and our vineyards.And now our flesh is like the flesh of our brothers, our children like their children. Yet behold, we are forcing our sons and our daughters to be slaves, and some of our daughters are forced into bondage already, and we are helpless because our fields and vineyards belong to others.”
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Job 17:5
He who informs against friends for a share of the spoils, The eyes of his children also will perish.
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Job 11:20
But the eyes of the wicked will fail, And there will be no escape for them; And their hope is to breathe their last.”
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Lamentations 2:11
My eyes fail because of tears, My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is poured out on the earth Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, When little ones and infants languish In the streets of the city.
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Psalms 69:3
I am weary with my crying; my throat is parched; My eyes fail while I wait for my God.
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Micah 4:10
Writhe and scream, Daughter of Zion, Like a woman in childbirth; For now you will go out of the city, Live in the field, And go to Babylon. There you will be rescued, There the Lord will redeem you From the hand of your enemies.
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Amos 5:27
Therefore I will make you go into exile beyond Damascus,” says the Lord, whose name is the God of armies.
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Deuteronomy 28:18
“ Cursed will be the children of your womb, the produce of your ground, the newborn of your herd, and the offspring of your flock.
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Jeremiah 15:7-9
I will winnow them with a winnowing fork At the gates of the land; I will bereave them of children, I will destroy My people; They did not repent of their ways.Their widows will be more numerous before Me Than the sand of the seas; I will bring against them, against the mother of a young man, A destroyer at noon; I will suddenly bring down on her Shock and horror.She who gave birth to seven sons withers away; Her breathing is labored. Her sun has set while it was still day; She has been shamed and humiliated. So I will turn over their survivors to the sword Before their enemies,” declares the Lord.
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Ezekiel 24:25
‘ As for you, son of man, will it not be on the day when I take from them their stronghold, the joy of their splendor, that which is precious in their eyes and their heart’s longing, their sons and their daughters,
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Isaiah 38:14
Like a swallow, like a crane, so I twitter; I moan like a dove; My eyes look wistfully to the heights; Lord, I am oppressed, be my security.
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Numbers 21:29
Woe to you, Moab! You are destroyed, people of Chemosh! He has given his sons as fugitives, And his daughters into captivity, To an Amorite king, Sihon.
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Lamentations 5:17
Because of this our heart is faint, Because of these things our eyes are dim;
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Jeremiah 16:2-4
“ You shall not take a wife for yourself nor have sons or daughters in this place.”For this is what the Lord says concerning the sons and daughters born in this place, and concerning their mothers who give birth to them, and their fathers who father them in this land:“ They will die of deadly diseases, they will not be mourned or buried; they will be like dung on the surface of the ground. And they will perish by sword and famine, and their dead bodies will become food for the birds of the sky and for the animals of the earth.”
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Lamentations 4:17
Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; At our observation point we have watched For a nation that could not save.
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Deuteronomy 28:65
Among those nations you will find no peace, and there will be no resting place for the sole of your foot; but there the Lord will give you a trembling heart, failing of eyes, and despair of soul.