Lamentations 1:11-21

11 All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised.”
12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
13 “From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke[a] ; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.
15 “The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to[b] crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah.
16 “This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”
17 Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
18 “The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.
19 “I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
20 “See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.
21 “People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.

Cross References 39

  • 1. S Psalms 6:6; S Psalms 38:8
  • 2. S Jeremiah 37:21; S Jeremiah 52:6
  • 3. S Jeremiah 18:16
  • 4. ver 18
  • 5. S Isaiah 10:4; Isaiah 13:13; S Jeremiah 30:24
  • 6. S Job 30:30; Psalms 102:3
  • 7. S Job 18:8
  • 8. S Jeremiah 44:6
  • 9. Habakkuk 3:16
  • 10. S Deuteronomy 28:48; S Isaiah 47:6; S Jeremiah 15:12
  • 11. S Jeremiah 32:5
  • 12. Jeremiah 37:10
  • 13. Isaiah 41:2
  • 14. Isaiah 28:18; S Jeremiah 18:21
  • 15. S Judges 6:11
  • 16. S Isaiah 5:5
  • 17. Jeremiah 14:17
  • 18. S Job 7:3; S Psalms 119:136; S Isaiah 22:4; Lamentations 2:11,18; Lamentations 3:48-49
  • 19. S Psalms 69:20; Ecclesiastes 4:1; S Jeremiah 16:7
  • 20. S ver 2; Jeremiah 13:17; Jeremiah 14:17
  • 21. S Jeremiah 4:31
  • 22. S Exodus 23:21
  • 23. Jeremiah 2:22
  • 24. S Leviticus 18:25-28
  • 25. S Exodus 9:27; S Ezra 9:15
  • 26. S 1 Samuel 12:14
  • 27. ver 12
  • 28. Deuteronomy 28:32,41
  • 29. S Jeremiah 22:20
  • 30. S Jeremiah 14:15; Lamentations 2:20
  • 31. S Jeremiah 4:19
  • 32. Lamentations 2:11
  • 33. S Job 20:2
  • 34. S ver 8
  • 35. S Deuteronomy 32:25; Ezekiel 7:15
  • 36. S ver 8; S Psalms 6:6; S Psalms 38:8
  • 37. ver 4
  • 38. Lamentations 2:15
  • 39. Isaiah 47:11; Jeremiah 30:16

Footnotes 2

  • [a]. Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint "He kept watch over my sins"
  • [b]. Or "has set a time for me" / "when he will"
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