Jeremiah 31:16

31:16 The Lord says to her, ¹ 

“Stop crying! Do not shed any more tears! ² 

For your heartfelt repentance ³  will be rewarded.

Your children will return from the land of the enemy.

I, the Lord, affirm it! ⁴ 

Luke 7:13

7:13 When ⁵  the Lord saw her, he had compassion ⁶  for her and said to her, “Do not weep.” ⁷ 

Luke 8:52

8:52 Now they were all ⁸  wailing and mourning ⁹  for her, but he said, “Stop your weeping; she is not dead but asleep.”

Luke 23:28

23:28 But Jesus turned to them and said, “Daughters of Jerusalem, ¹⁰  do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves ¹¹  and for your children.

John 20:13

20:13 They said ¹²  to her, “Woman, ¹³  why are you weeping?” Mary replied, ¹⁴  “They have taken my Lord away, and I do not know where they have put him!”

¹ tn The words “to her” are not in the text but are implicit from the context. They are supplied in the translation for clarity.

² tn Heb “Refrain your voice from crying and your eyes from tears.”

³ tn Heb “your work.” Contextually her “work” refers to her weeping and refusing to be comforted, that is, signs of genuine repentance (v. 15).

⁴ tn Heb “Oracle of the Lord.”

⁵ tn Grk “And seeing her, the Lord.” Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style. The participle ἰδών (idwn) has been taken temporally.

⁶ sn He had compassion. It is unusual for Luke to note such emotion by Jesus, though the other Synoptics tend to mention it (Matt 14:14; Mark 6:34; Matt 15:32; Mark 8:2).

⁷ tn The verb κλαίω (klaiw) denotes the loud wailing or lamenting typical of 1st century Jewish mourning.

⁸ sn This group probably includes outside or even professional mourners, not just family, because a large group seems to be present.

⁹ tn Grk “beating the breasts” (in mourning); see L&N 52.1.

¹⁰ sn The title Daughters of Jerusalem portrays these women mourning as representatives of the nation.

¹¹ sn Do not weep for me, but weep for yourselves. Judgment now comes on the nation (see Luke 19:41-44) for this judgment of Jesus. Ironically, they mourn the wrong person – they should be mourning for themselves.

¹² tn The conjunction καί (kai, “and”) has not been translated here.

¹³ sn Woman was a polite form of address (see BDAG 208-9 s.v. γυνή 1), similar to “Madam” or “Ma’am” used in English in different regions. This occurs again in v. 15.

¹⁴ tn Grk “She said to them.”