Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her magnificent things which have been in the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, with none to help her, the adversaries looked at her, they laughed at the cessation [of her glory].

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

In Context

6And there is gone forth from the daughter of Zion all her splendor: her princes are become like harts that have found no pasture, and they flee without strength before the pursuer.

8A grievous sin did Jerusalem commit, therefore is she become a wanderer: all that honored her hold her in contempt, because they have seen her nakedness; she also sigheth, and turneth [ashamed] backward.

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath a god essayed to go to take himself a nation from the midst of a nation, by proofs, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, like all that which the Lord your God hath done for you in Egypt before thy eyes.

Job 29:2Who will give me back months like those which are past, days like those when God guarded me;

Psalms 77:3(77:4) I think of God, and moan: I reflect, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

Psalms 79:4We are become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those that are round about us.

Psalms 147:19He declareth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances unto Israel.

Isaiah 64:10(64:9) Thy holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem, a desolate place.

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 →

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