Lamentations 1:1
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| Overview - Lamentations 1 | |
| 1 | The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews pathetically lamented, with confessions of their sins. |
| 12 | The attention and compassion of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case. |
| 18 | The justice of God acknowledged, and his mercy supplicated, with prayers against insulting foes. |
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Lamentations 1:1 (King James Version)
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
- How doth
- The LXX. have the following words as an introduction: "And it came to pass after Israel had been carried captive, and Jerusalem was become desolate, that Jeremiah sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and said."
- 2:1 4:1 Isaiah 14:12 ; Jeremiah 50:23 ; Zephaniah 2:15 ; Revelation 18:16 Revelation 18:17
- sit
- 2:10 Isaiah 3:26 ; 47:1-15 50:5 Isaiah 52:2 Isaiah 52:7 Jeremiah 9:11 ; Ezekiel 26:16
- full
- Psalms 122:4 ; Isaiah 22:2 ; Zechariah 8:4 Zechariah 8:5
- as a
- Isaiah 47:8 Isaiah 47:9 ; 54:4 Revelation 18:7
- great
- 1 Kings 4:21 ; 2 Chronicles 9:26 ; Ezra 4:20
- how is
- 5:16 2 Kings 23:33 2 Kings 23:35 ; Nehemiah 5:4 ; 9:37