Genesis 21:16
And she goes and sits by herself opposite [him], far off, about a bow-shot, for she said, “Do not let me look on the death of the boy”; and she sits opposite [him], and lifts up her voice, and weeps.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
In Context
15and the water is consumed from the bottle, and she places the boy under one of the shrubs.
Cross References
Genesis 27:38And Esau says to his father, “One blessing have you my father? Bless me, me also, O my father”; and Esau lifts up his voice, and weeps.
Genesis 44:34for how do I go up to my father, and the youth not with me? Lest I look on the evil which finds my father.”
Ruth 1:9YHWH grants to you, and you find rest each in the house of her husband”; and she kisses them, and they lift up their voice and weep.
1 Samuel 30:4And David lifts up—and the people who [are] with him—their voice and weep, until they have no power to weep.
Esther 8:6for how do I endure when I have looked on the evil that finds my people? And how do I endure when I have looked on the destruction of my family?”
Zechariah 12:10And I have poured on the house of David, || And on the inhabitant of Jerusalem, || The Spirit of grace and supplications, || And they have looked to Me whom they pierced, || And they have mourned over Him, || Like a mourning over the only one, || And they have been in bitterness for Him, || Like a bitterness over the firstborn.
Matthew Henry on Genesis 21:15-22
God's Mercy to Hagar and Ishmael. ( b. c. 1892.) 14 And Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away: and she departed, and wandered in the wilderness of Beer-sheba. 15 And the water was spent in the bottle, and she cast the child under one of the shrubs. 16 And she went, and sat her down over against him a good way off, as it were a bowshot: for she said, Let me not see the death of the child. And… Read the whole commentary →