| Overview - Lamentations 1 | |
| 1 | The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews pathetically lamented, with confessions of their sins. |
| 12 | The attention and compassion of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case. |
| 18 | The justice of God acknowledged, and his mercy supplicated, with prayers against insulting foes. |
Lamentations 1:19 (King James Version)
I 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.