How the city sits solitary, Isa 3:261Ki 4:21Ezr 4:20Rev 18:16-17Isa 54:42Ki 23:35Isa 22:2Lam 5:16
that was full of people!
She has become as a widow,
who was great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the provinces
has become a slave!
She weeps bitterly in the night. Psa 6:6Mic 7:5Ezk 23:22-25Jer 13:17Jer 22:20-22Jer 30:14Jer 4:30Jer 9:1
Her tears are on her cheeks.
Among all her lovers
she has no one to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.
They have become her enemies.
Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction Deu 28:64-67Lam 2:92Ch 36:20-212Ki 24:14-152Ki 25:112Ki 25:21Amo 9:1-4Ezk 5:12
and because of great servitude.
She dwells among the nations.
She finds no rest.
All her persecutors overtook her in her distress.
The roads to Zion mourn, Jer 9:11Jol 1:8-13Isa 24:4-6Jer 10:22Jer 14:2Lam 2:6-7Isa 32:9-14Jer 33:10-12
because no one comes to the solemn assembly.
All her gates are desolate.
Her priests sigh.
Her virgins are afflicted,
and she herself is in bitterness.
Her adversaries have become the head. Deu 32:15-27Ezk 8:17-18Ezk 9:9Jer 30:14-15Jer 39:9Psa 90:7-82Ch 36:14-16Dan 9:7-16
Her enemies prosper;
for the LORD 1 has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.
Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Ezk 24:252Ki 19:212Sa 4:11-12Deu 28:25Deu 32:30Ezk 11:22-23Ezk 24:21Ezk 7:20-22
Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.
They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries Psa 79:4Deu 4:34-37Psa 42:4Psa 77:5-9Deu 4:7-8Deu 8:7-9Hos 2:7Isa 5:1-4
all her pleasant things that were from the days of old;
when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,
and no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her.
They mocked at her desolations.
Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Isa 59:2-13Lam 1:20-22Jer 13:22Jer 13:26Lam 1:11Lam 1:4-51Ki 8:46-471Ki 9:9
Therefore she has become unclean.
All who honored her despise her,
because they have seen her nakedness.
Yes, she sighs and turns backward.
Her filthiness was in her skirts. Deu 32:29Isa 47:7Psa 25:18Ecc 4:1Lam 1:172Th 2:4-8Isa 3:8Jer 13:17-18
She didn’t remember her latter end.
Therefore she has come down astoundingly.
She has no comforter.
“See, LORD, my affliction;
for the enemy has magnified himself.”
The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; Deu 23:3Jer 51:51Isa 64:10-11Lam 1:7Neh 13:1Psa 74:4-8Ezk 44:7Ezk 7:22
for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,
concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
All her people sigh. Jer 52:6Jer 38:9Lam 2:121Sa 30:11-12Deu 28:52-572Ki 6:25Ezk 4:15-17Ezk 5:16-17
They seek bread.
They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.
“Look, LORD, and see,
for I have become despised.”
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Dan 9:12Luk 23:28-31Jer 18:16Jer 30:24Lam 4:6-11Isa 13:13Lam 2:13Luk 21:22-23
Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
which is brought on me,
with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
“From on high has he sent fire into my bones, Hab 3:16Job 30:30Ezk 17:20Job 19:6Psa 22:14Ezk 12:13Heb 12:29Nam 1:6
and it prevails against them.
He has spread a net for my feet.
He has turned me back.
He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. Deu 28:48Isa 47:6Ezk 25:4Ezk 25:7Jer 28:14Pro 5:22Ezk 11:9Ezk 21:31
They are knit together.
They have come up on my neck.
He made my strength fail.
The Lord 2 has delivered me into their hands,
against whom I am not able to stand.
“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. Isa 63:3Isa 28:18Mal 4:3Heb 10:29Luk 21:24Rev 14:19-20Rev 19:152Ki 24:14-16
He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.
The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
“For these things I weep. Lam 1:2Psa 119:136Jer 13:17Jer 14:17Lam 2:11Lam 2:18Lam 3:48-49Ecc 4:1
My eye, my eye runs down with water,
because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.
My children are desolate,
because the enemy has prevailed.”
Zion spreads out her hands. Jer 4:31Isa 1:15Lam 1:92Ki 24:2-42Ki 25:1Jer 21:4-5Jer 34:22Lam 1:16
There is no one to comfort her.
The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob,
that those who are around him should be his adversaries.
Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
“The LORD is righteous, Psa 119:751Sa 12:14-15Zep 3:5Jer 12:1Lam 1:12Lam 3:42Neh 9:33Psa 107:11
for I have rebelled against his commandment.
Please hear all you peoples,
and see my sorrow.
My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
“I called for my lovers, Lam 1:11Lam 1:2Lam 2:20Job 19:13-19Jer 14:15-18Jer 2:28Jer 23:11-15Jer 27:13-15
but they deceived me.
My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,
while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
“Look, LORD; for I am in distress. Ezk 7:15Lam 2:11Deu 32:25Isa 16:11Pro 28:13Jer 4:19Job 30:271Ki 8:47-50
My heart is troubled.
My heart turns over within me,
for I have grievously rebelled.
Abroad, the sword bereaves.
At home, it is like death.
“They have heard that I sigh. Lam 1:8Jer 50:11Lam 1:16Lam 1:22Lam 2:15Psa 35:15Jer 51:24Lam 1:2
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 bring the day that you have proclaimed,
and they will be like me.
“Let all their wickedness come before you. Jer 8:18Rev 6:10Psa 109:14-15Neh 4:4-5Eph 3:13Isa 13:7Jer 10:25Jer 18:23
Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions.
For my sighs are many,
and my heart is faint.