Lamentations 1:1

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 provinces has become tributary!

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In The 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

In Context

2She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her loved ones she has none to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:33And I will scatter you among the nations, and I will draw out the sword after you, and your land shall be a desolation, and your cities shall be a waste.

2 Kings 23:33And Pharaoh-necoh put him in bonds at Riblah in the land of Hamath, that he might not reign in Jerusalem. And he put the land to a tribute of a hundred talents of silver, and a talent of gold.

2 Chronicles 9:26And he ruled over all the kings from the River even to the land of the Philistines, and to the border of Egypt.

Nehemiah 5:4There were also who said, We have borrowed money for the king's tribute [upon] our fields and our vineyards.

Psalms 122:4where the tribes go up, even the tribes of LORD, [for] an ordinance for Israel, to give thanks to the name of LORD.

Isaiah 14:12How thou are fallen from heaven, O day-star, son of the morning! How thou are cut down to the ground, who laid the nations low!

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