Lamentations 3:42-54

42 “We have sinned and rebelled and you have not forgiven.
43 “You have covered yourself with anger and pursued us; you have slain without pity.
44 You have covered yourself with a cloud so that no prayer can get through.
45 You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.
46 “All our enemies have opened their mouths wide against us.
47 We have suffered terror and pitfalls, ruin and destruction.”
48 Streams of tears flow from my eyes because my people are destroyed.
49 My eyes will flow unceasingly, without relief,
50 until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.
51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.
52 Those who were my enemies without cause hunted me like a bird.
53 They tried to end my life in a pit and threw stones at me;
54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

Cross References 21

  • 1. Jeremiah 14:20; Daniel 9:5
  • 2. S 2 Kings 24:4; Jeremiah 5:7-9
  • 3. ver 66; Psalms 35:6
  • 4. S La 2:2,17,21
  • 5. Psalms 97:2; Lamentations 2:1
  • 6. S ver 8; Zechariah 7:13
  • 7. S Isaiah 58:4
  • 8. 1 Corinthians 4:13
  • 9. Psalms 22:13
  • 10. Lamentations 2:16
  • 11. Jeremiah 48:43
  • 12. S Isaiah 24:17-18; S Isaiah 51:19
  • 13. S Psalms 119:136
  • 14. S Jeremiah 9:1,18; Lamentations 1:16
  • 15. Lamentations 2:11
  • 16. Jeremiah 14:17; S Lamentations 2:18
  • 17. S Psalms 14:2; Psalms 80:14; S Isaiah 63:15
  • 18. Psalms 35:7
  • 19. Jeremiah 37:16; S Jeremiah 38:6
  • 20. Psalms 69:2; John 2:3-5
  • 21. ver 18; Psalms 88:5; Ezekiel 37:11
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