Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is righteous; 1 For I have provoked his mouth: 1 Hear, I pray you, all people, 1 And behold my grief: 1 My virgins and my young men 1 Are gone into captivity. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

In Context

17Zion has spread out her hand, 1 And there is none to comfort her: 1 The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, 1 His oppressors are round about him: 1 Jerusalem has become among them as a removed woman. 1

19I called my lovers, 1 But they deceived me: 1 My priests and my elders 1 Failed in the city; 1 For they sought meat 1 That they might restore their souls, 1 And found it not. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:32Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given to another nation, and thine eyes wasting away shall look for them: thy hand shall have no strength.

Deuteronomy 32:4As for God, his works are true, 1 And all his ways are judgment: 1 God is faithful, and there is no unrighteousness in him; 1 Just and holy is the Lord. 1

1 Samuel 12:14If ye should fear the Lord, and serve him, and hearken to his voice, and not resist the mouth of the Lord, and ye and your king that reigns over you should follow the Lord, well.

1 Kings 9:8And this house, which is high, shall be so that everyone that passes by it shall be amazed, and shall hiss; and they shall say, Wherefore has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?

Ezra 9:13And after all that is come upon us because of our evil deeds, and our great trespass, it is clear that there is none such as our God, for thou hast lightly visited our iniquities, and given us deliverance;

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 1:13-22

God Acknowledged in Affliction; Jerusalem's Complaint. ( b. c. 588.) 12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are… Read the whole commentary →

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