Lamentations 1:11
All her people groan, looking for bread. They have spent what they value the most to buy food so they can stay alive. “Please, Lord, look and see what's happening to me,” she says. “It's as if I'm worthless!
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Deuteronomy 28:52They will besiege all the towns in your country, until the high, fortified walls that you trust in have fallen. They will besiege all your towns in your country that the Lord your God has given you.
2 Kings 6:25So there was a major famine in Samaria. In fact the siege lasted so long that a donkey's head cost eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove's dung cost five shekels of silver.
Psalms 25:15I always look to the Lord, for he rescues me when I'm trapped.
Jeremiah 19:9The siege brought by their enemies who want to kill them will be so terrible that I will make them eat each other, even their own sons and daughters.
Jeremiah 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so bad that the people had nothing left to eat.
Lamentations 1:19I called out for help to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and elders starved to death in the city as they tried to find food to keep themselves alive.
Matthew Henry on Lamentations 1:2-12
Lamentations Since what Solomon says, though contrary to the common opinion of the world, is certainly true, that sorrow is better than laughter, and it is better to go to the house of mourning than to the house of feasting, we should come to the reading and consideration of the melancholy chapters of this book, not only willingly, but with an expectation to edify ourselves by them; and, that we may do this, we must compose ourselves to a holy sadness and resolve to weep with the weeping prophet. Let us consider,… Read the whole commentary →