Lamentations 1

1How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!Cross-references: 1Ki 4:21 · 2Ki 23:33 · 2Ki 23:35 · 2Chr 9:26 · Ezra 4:20 · Neh 5:4 · +22 more

2She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.Cross-references: Job 6:15 · Job 7:3 · Job 19:13 · Ps 6:6 · Ps 31:11 · Ps 77:2 · +21 more

3Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her in her distress.Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:64 · 2Ki 24:14 · 2Ki 25:11 · 2Ki 25:21 · 2Chr 36:20 · +11 more

4The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.Cross-references: Isa 24:4 · Isa 32:9 · Jer 9:11 · Jer 10:22 · Jer 14:2 · Jer 33:10 · +8 more

5Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.Cross-references: Lev 26:15 · Deut 4:25 · Deut 28:15 · Deut 29:18 · Deut 31:16 · Deut 31:29 · +26 more

6All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer.Cross-references: Lev 26:36 · Deut 28:25 · Deut 32:30 · Josh 7:12 · 2Sam 4:11 · 2Ki 19:21 · +23 more

7Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.Cross-references: Deut 4:7 · Deut 4:34 · Deut 8:7 · Job 29:2 · Ps 42:4 · Ps 77:3 · +12 more

8Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs and turns backward.Cross-references: 1Sam 2:30 · 1Ki 8:46 · 1Ki 9:7 · 1Ki 9:9 · Isa 47:3 · Isa 59:2 · +22 more

9Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”Cross-references: Ex 3:7 · Ex 3:17 · Ex 4:31 · Deut 26:7 · Deut 32:27 · Deut 32:29 · +37 more

10The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.Cross-references: Deut 23:3 · Neh 13:1 · Ps 74:4 · Ps 79:1 · Isa 5:13 · Isa 63:18 · +11 more

11All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see, for I have become despised.”Cross-references: Deut 28:52 · 1Sam 30:11 · 2Ki 6:25 · Job 40:4 · Ps 25:15 · Jer 19:9 · +9 more

12“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.Cross-references: Isa 13:13 · Jer 18:16 · Jer 30:24 · Lam 2:13 · Lam 4:6 · Dan 9:12 · +3 more

13“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.Cross-references: Deut 28:65 · Deut 32:21 · Job 18:8 · Job 19:6 · Job 30:30 · Ps 22:14 · +21 more

14“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.Cross-references: Deut 28:48 · Prov 5:22 · Isa 14:25 · Isa 47:6 · Jer 25:9 · Jer 27:8 · +12 more

15“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.Cross-references: Deut 28:33 · Judg 10:8 · 2Ki 9:33 · 2Ki 24:14 · 2Ki 25:4 · Ps 119:118 · +17 more

16“For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”Cross-references: Ps 69:20 · Ps 119:136 · Eccl 4:1 · Jer 9:1 · Jer 9:10 · Jer 9:21 · +13 more

17Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.Cross-references: Lev 15:19 · 1Ki 8:22 · 1Ki 8:38 · 2Ki 24:2 · 2Ki 25:1 · Isa 1:15 · +17 more

18“Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.Cross-references: Ex 9:27 · Deut 28:32 · Deut 29:22 · Deut 32:4 · Judg 1:7 · 1Sam 12:14 · +25 more

19“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.Cross-references: Job 19:13 · Jer 2:28 · Jer 14:15 · Jer 23:11 · Jer 27:13 · Jer 30:14 · +7 more

20“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.Cross-references: Lev 26:40 · Deut 32:25 · 1Ki 8:47 · Job 30:27 · Job 33:27 · Ps 22:14 · +21 more

21“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.Cross-references: Deut 32:41 · Ps 35:15 · Ps 37:13 · Ps 38:16 · Ps 137:7 · Isa 13:1 · +28 more

22“Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.Cross-references: Neh 4:4 · Ps 109:14 · Ps 137:7 · Isa 13:7 · Jer 8:18 · Jer 10:25 · +7 more