Lamentations Chapter 1

• Lamentations 1:1
  The Lamentations of Jeremiah.
• Lamentations 1:2
  How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the prov...
• Lamentations 1:3
  She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treachero...
• Lamentations 1:4
  Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecuto...
• Lamentations 1:5
  The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she...
• Lamentations 1:6
  Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children ...
• Lamentations 1:7
  All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the...
• Lamentations 1:8
  Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell int...
• Lamentations 1:9
  Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sig...
• Lamentations 1:10
  Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, LORD, my a...
• Lamentations 1:11
  The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom y...
• Lamentations 1:12
  All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, LORD, and see, for I have become de...
• Lamentations 1:13
  “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which the LORD has affli...
• Lamentations 1:14
  “From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me des...
• Lamentations 1:15
  “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has deli...
• Lamentations 1:16
  “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the v...
• Lamentations 1:17
  “For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desola...
• Lamentations 1:18
  Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adver...
• Lamentations 1:19
  “The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have ...
• Lamentations 1:20
  “I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refre...
• Lamentations 1:21
  “Look, LORD; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At...
• Lamentations 1:22
  “They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will br...
• Lamentations 1:23
  “Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.