Lamentations 1:19

I 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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

In Context

18The 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

20Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted: 1 My belly is troubled, 1 And my heart is turned within me; 1 For I have been grievously rebellious: 1 Abroad the sword has bereaved me, 1 Even as death at home. 1

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Cross References

Job 19:13My brethren have stood aloof from me; 1 They have recognized strangers rather than me: 1 And my friends have become pitiless. 1

Jeremiah 14:15Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy lies in my name, and I sent them not, who say, Sword and famine shall not be upon this land; they shall die by a grievous death, and the prophets shall be consumed by famine.

Jeremiah 27:13by reason of the Lord’s anger: it shall not be inhabited, but it shall be all a desolation; and everyone that passes through Babylon shall scowl, and they shall hiss at all her plague.

Jeremiah 37:7For that day is great, and there is not such another; and it is a time of straitness to Jacob; but he shall be saved out of it.

Lamentations 1:2She weeps sore in the night, 1 And her tears are on her cheeks; 1 And there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: 1 All that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, 1 They are become her enemies. 1

Lamentations 2:20Behold, O Lord, 1 And see for whom thou hast gathered thus. 1 Shall the women eat the fruit of their womb? 1 The cook has made a gathering: 1 Shall the infants sucking at the breasts be slain? 1 Wilt thou slay the priest and prophet 1 In the sanctuary of the Lord? 1

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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