Lamentations 1:7; Lamentations 1:10; Lamentations 1:14; Lamentations 1:17; Lamentations 2:7; Lamentations 2:8; Lamentations 3:3; Lamentations 4:2; Lamentations 4:6; Lamentations 4:10; Lamentations 5:6; Lamentations 5:12

Lamentations 1:7

7 In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.

Lamentations 1:10

10 The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.

Lamentations 1:14

14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke ; 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.

Lamentations 1:17

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.

Lamentations 2:7

7 The Lord has rejected his altar and abandoned his sanctuary. He has given the walls of her palaces into the hands of the enemy; they have raised a shout in the house of the LORDas on the day of an appointed festival.

Lamentations 2:8

8 The LORD determined to tear down the wall around Daughter Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withhold his hand from destroying. He made ramparts and walls lament; together they wasted away.

Lamentations 3:3

3 indeed, he has turned his hand against me again and again, all day long.

Lamentations 4:2

2 How the precious children of Zion, once worth their weight in gold, are now considered as pots of clay, the work of a potter’s hands!

Lamentations 4:6

6 The punishment of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment without a hand turned to help her.

Lamentations 4:10

10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.

Lamentations 5:6

6 We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.

Lamentations 5:12

12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.