Lamentations 1:12

“He was despised and rejected by mankind, a man of suffering, and familiar with pain. Like one from whom people hide their faces he was despised, and we held him in low esteem.”

Shares theme of unparalleled suffering and being forsaken.

“About three in the afternoon Jesus cried out in a loud voice, 'Eli, Eli, lema sabachthani?' (which means 'My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?').”

Reflects the feeling of abandonment and divine forsaking experienced by the speaker.

“My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish?”

Mirrors the lament and questioning of divine abandonment in the face of suffering.

“What can I say? With what can I compare you, Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, Virgin Daughter Zion? Your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can heal you?”

Similar expression of grief and the search for adequate comparison to express the depth of suffering.

“He has carried out the words spoken against us and against our rulers by bringing on us great disaster. Under the whole heaven nothing has ever been done like what has been done to Jerusalem.”

Emphasizes the uniqueness and severity of the disaster that has befallen Jerusalem.