Lamentations 1:11; Lamentations 1:16; Lamentations 1:19; Lamentations 2:12; Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 3:17; Lamentations 3:20; Lamentations 3:24; Lamentations 3:25; Lamentations 3:51; Lamentations 3:58; Lamentations 5:9

Lamentations 1:11

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.”

Lamentations 1:16

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.”

Lamentations 1:19

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.

Lamentations 2:12

12 They say to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives ebb away in their mothers’ arms.

Lamentations 2:19

19 Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.

Lamentations 3:17

17 I have been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.

Lamentations 3:20

20 I well remember them, and my soul is downcast within me.

Lamentations 3:24

24 I say to myself, “The LORD is my portion; therefore I will wait for him.”

Lamentations 3:25

25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

Lamentations 3:51

51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.

Lamentations 3:58

58 You, Lord, took up my case; you redeemed my life.

Lamentations 5:9

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.