Lamentations 1

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1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!56 cross-references: Ezra 4:20, 1 Kings 4:21, Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 54:4, Revelation 18:16–17
2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.47 cross-references: Psalms 6:6, Micah 7:5, Lamentations 1:16–17, Jeremiah 22:20–22, Jeremiah 13:17
3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.25 cross-references: Deuteronomy 28:64–67, Lamentations 2:9, Amos 9:1–4, 2 Chronicles 36:20–21, Lamentations 4:18–19
4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.31 cross-references: Joel 1:8–13, Jeremiah 9:11, Jeremiah 14:2, Jeremiah 10:22, Lamentations 2:6–7
5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.46 cross-references: Ezekiel 8:17–18, Deuteronomy 32:15–27, Ezekiel 9:9, Jeremiah 39:9, Psalms 90:7–8
6And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.31 cross-references: Ezekiel 24:25, Jeremiah 14:5–6, Jeremiah 52:7–8, Joshua 7:12–13, Isaiah 4:5
7Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.30 cross-references: Psalms 79:4, Deuteronomy 4:34–37, Psalms 77:5–9, Psalms 42:4, Hosea 2:7
8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.51 cross-references: Lamentations 1:20–22, Isaiah 59:2–13, Lamentations 1:4–5, Lamentations 1:11, Jeremiah 13:26
9Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.62 cross-references: Deuteronomy 32:29, Isaiah 47:7, Psalms 25:18, Ecclesiastes 4:1, Lamentations 1:17
10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.45 cross-references: Deuteronomy 23:3, Jeremiah 51:51, Psalms 74:4–8, Isaiah 64:10–11, Lamentations 1:7
11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.24 cross-references: Jeremiah 52:6, Jeremiah 38:9, Lamentations 2:12, Deuteronomy 28:52–57, Ezekiel 4:15–17
12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.36 cross-references: Luke 23:28–31, Daniel 9:12, Lamentations 4:6–11, Jeremiah 30:24, Jeremiah 18:16
13From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.43 cross-references: Job 30:30, Habakkuk 3:16, Job 19:6, Psalms 22:14, Ezekiel 17:20
14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.29 cross-references: Isaiah 47:6, Deuteronomy 28:48, Jeremiah 28:14, Ezekiel 25:4, Proverbs 5:22
15The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.40 cross-references: Isaiah 63:3, Isaiah 28:18, Malachi 4:3, Revelation 19:15, Luke 21:24
16For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.44 cross-references: Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 2:18, Lamentations 3:48–49, Psalms 119:136, Lamentations 2:11
17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.27 cross-references: Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 4:31, Lamentations 1:9, Lamentations 1:16, 2 Kings 24:2–4
18The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.55 cross-references: Psalms 119:75, 1 Samuel 12:14–15, Zephaniah 3:5, Jeremiah 12:1, Lamentations 1:12
19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.26 cross-references: Lamentations 2:20, Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:11, Job 19:13–19, Lamentations 4:7–9
20Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.40 cross-references: Lamentations 2:11, Deuteronomy 32:25, Isaiah 16:11, Ezekiel 7:15, Jeremiah 4:19
21They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.46 cross-references: Lamentations 1:8, Psalms 35:15, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 1:16, Jeremiah 50:11
22Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.18 cross-references: Jeremiah 8:18, Nehemiah 4:4–5, Psalms 109:14–15, Revelation 6:10, Isaiah 13:7

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