Lamentations 2:12; Lamentations 2:15; Lamentations 2:16; Lamentations 3:18; Lamentations 3:24; Lamentations 3:37; Lamentations 3:54; Lamentations 3:57; Lamentations 4:15; Lamentations 4:20

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 2:15

15 All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”

Lamentations 2:16

16 All your enemies open their mouths wide against you; they scoff and gnash their teeth and say, “We have swallowed her up. This is the day we have waited for; we have lived to see it.”

Lamentations 3:18

18 So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”

Lamentations 3:24

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

Lamentations 3:37

37 Who can speak and have it happen if the Lord has not decreed it?

Lamentations 3:54

54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

Lamentations 3:57

57 You came near when I called you, and you said, “Do not fear.”

Lamentations 4:15

15 “Go away! You are unclean!” people cry to them. “Away! Away! Don’t touch us!” When they flee and wander about, people among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”

Lamentations 4:20

20 The LORD’s anointed, our very life breath, was caught in their traps. We thought that under his shadow we would live among the nations.