Lamentations 1 (NET)

Lamentations 1:1¹Alas! The city once full of people now sits all alone! The prominent lady among the nations has become a widow! The princess who once ruled the provinces has become a forced laborer! ב (Bet )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 3:261 Kgs 4:21Ezra 4:20Rev 18:16-17Isa 54:42 Kgs 23:35Isa 22:2Lam 5:16Zeph 2:152 Kgs 23:33

Lamentations 1:2²She weeps bitterly at night; tears stream down her cheeks. She has no one to comfort her among all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies. ג (Gimel )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 6:6Mic 7:5Ezek 23:22-25Jer 13:17Jer 22:20-22Jer 30:14Jer 4:30Jer 9:1Job 19:13-14Lam 1:16-17

Lamentations 1:3³Judah has departed into exile under affliction and harsh oppression. She lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in narrow straits. ד (Dalet )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:64-67Lam 2:92 Chr 36:20-212 Kgs 24:14-152 Kgs 25:112 Kgs 25:21Amos 9:1-4Ezek 5:12Jer 13:19Jer 16:16

Lamentations 1:4⁴The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish! ה (He )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 9:11Joel 1:8-13Isa 24:4-6Jer 10:22Jer 14:2Lam 2:6-7Isa 32:9-14Jer 33:10-12Lam 1:11-12Lam 1:18-20

Lamentations 1:5⁵Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the Lord afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy. ו (Vav )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:15-27Ezek 8:17-18Ezek 9:9Jer 30:14-15Jer 39:9Ps 90:7-82 Chr 36:14-16Dan 9:7-16Deut 28:15-68Deut 29:18-28

Lamentations 1:6⁶All of Daughter Zion’s splendor has departed. Her leaders became like deer; they found no pasture, so they were too exhausted to escape from the hunter. ז (Zayin )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ezek 24:252 Kgs 19:212 Sam 4:11-12Deut 28:25Deut 32:30Ezek 11:22-23Ezek 24:21Ezek 7:20-22Isa 1:21Isa 12:6

Lamentations 1:7⁷Jerusalem remembers, when she became a poor homeless person, all her treasures that she owned in days of old. When her people fell into an enemy’s grip, none of her allies came to her rescue. Her enemies gloated over her; they sneered at her downfall. ח (Khet )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 79:4Deut 4:34-37Ps 42:4Ps 77:5-9Deut 4:7-8Deut 8:7-9Hos 2:7Isa 5:1-4Jer 37:7Job 29:2-30:1

Lamentations 1:8⁸Jerusalem committed terrible sin; therefore she became an object of scorn. All who admired her have despised her because they have seen her nakedness. She groans aloud and turns away in shame. ט (Tet )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 59:2-13Lam 1:20-22Jer 13:22Jer 13:26Lam 1:11Lam 1:4-51 Kgs 8:46-471 Kgs 9:91 Sam 2:30Ezek 14:13-21

Lamentations 1:9⁹Her menstrual flow has soiled her clothing; she did not consider the consequences of her sin. Her demise was astonishing, and there was no one to comfort her. She cried, “Look, O Lord, on my affliction because my enemy boasts!” י (Yod )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 32:29Isa 47:7Ps 25:18Eccl 4:1Lam 1:172 Thess 2:4-8Isa 3:8Jer 13:17-18Jer 2:34Jer 48:26

Lamentations 1:10¹⁰An enemy grabbed all her valuables. Indeed she watched in horror as Gentiles invaded her holy temple — those whom you had commanded: “They must not enter your assembly place.” כ (Kaf )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 23:3Jer 51:51Isa 64:10-11Lam 1:7Neh 13:1Ps 74:4-8Ezek 44:7Ezek 7:22Ezek 9:7Isa 5:13-14

Lamentations 1:11¹¹All her people groaned as they searched for a morsel of bread. They exchanged their valuables for just enough food to stay alive. “Look, O Lord! Consider that I have become worthless!” ל (Lamed )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 52:6Jer 38:9Lam 2:121 Sam 30:11-12Deut 28:52-572 Kgs 6:25Ezek 4:15-17Ezek 5:16-17Jer 19:9Job 40:4

Lamentations 1:12¹²Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by on the road? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine? The Lord has afflicted me, he has inflicted it on me when he burned with anger. מ (Mem )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Dan 9:12Luke 23:28-31Jer 18:16Jer 30:24Lam 4:6-11Isa 13:13Lam 2:13Luke 21:22-23Matt 24:21

Lamentations 1:13¹³He sent down fire into my bones, and it overcame them. He spread out a trapper’s net for my feet; he made me turn back. He has made me desolate; I am faint all day long. נ (Nun )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Hab 3:16Job 30:30Ezek 17:20Job 19:6Ps 22:14Ezek 12:13Heb 12:29Nah 1:6Ps 66:112 Thess 1:8

Lamentations 1:14¹⁴My sins are bound around my neck like a yoke; they are fastened together by his hand. He has placed his yoke on my neck; he has sapped my strength. The Lord has handed me over to those whom I cannot resist. ס (Samek )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Deut 28:48Isa 47:6Ezek 25:4Ezek 25:7Jer 28:14Prov 5:22Ezek 11:9Ezek 21:31Ezek 23:28Hos 5:14

Lamentations 1:15¹⁵He rounded up all my mighty ones; The Lord did this in my midst. He summoned an assembly against me to shatter my young men. The Lord has stomped like grapes the virgin daughter, Judah. ע (Ayin )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 63:3Isa 28:18Mal 4:3Heb 10:29Luke 21:24Rev 14:19-20Rev 19:152 Kgs 24:14-162 Kgs 25:4-72 Kgs 9:33

Lamentations 1:16¹⁶I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed. פ (Pe )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 1:2Ps 119:136Jer 13:17Jer 14:17Lam 2:11Lam 2:18Lam 3:48-49Eccl 4:1Hos 9:12Jer 9:1

Lamentations 1:17¹⁷Zion spread out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord has issued a decree against Jacob; his neighbors have become his enemies. Jerusalem has become like filthy garbage in their midst. צ (Tsade )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 4:31Isa 1:15Lam 1:92 Kgs 24:2-42 Kgs 25:1Jer 21:4-5Jer 34:22Lam 1:16Lam 1:191 Kgs 8:22

Lamentations 1:18¹⁸The Lord is right to judge me! Yes, I rebelled against his commands. Please listen, all you nations, and look at my suffering! My young women and men have gone into exile. ק (Qof )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 119:751 Sam 12:14-15Zeph 3:5Jer 12:1Lam 1:12Lam 3:42Neh 9:33Ps 107:111 Kgs 13:211 Kgs 9:8-9

Lamentations 1:19¹⁹I called for my lovers, but they had deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city. Truly they had searched for food to keep themselves alive. ר (Resh )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 1:11Lam 1:2Lam 2:20Job 19:13-19Jer 14:15-18Jer 2:28Jer 23:11-15Jer 27:13-15Jer 30:14Jer 37:7-9

Lamentations 1:20²⁰Look, O Lord! I am distressed; my stomach is in knots! My heart is pounding inside me. Yes, I was terribly rebellious! Out in the street the sword bereaves a mother of her children; Inside the house death is present. ש (Sin/Shin )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 2:11Deut 32:25Ezek 7:15Isa 16:11Prov 28:13Jer 4:19Job 30:271 Kgs 8:47-50Hab 3:16Hos 11:8

Lamentations 1:21²¹They have heard that I groan, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have brought it about. Bring about the day of judgment that you promised so that they may end up like me! ת (Tav )Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lam 1:8Jer 50:11Lam 1:16Lam 1:22Lam 2:15Ps 35:15Jer 51:24Lam 1:2Lam 1:4Lam 4:21-22

Lamentations 1:22²²Let all their wickedness come before you; afflict them just as you have afflicted me because of all my acts of rebellion. For my groans are many, and my heart is sick with sorrow.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 8:18Rev 6:10Ps 109:14-15Neh 4:4-5Eph 3:13Isa 13:7Jer 10:25Jer 18:23Jer 51:35Lam 1:13