Lamentations 1:20

Behold, 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

Updated Brenton Septuagint

In The King James Version

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

In Context

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

21Hear, I pray you, for I groan: 1 There is none to comfort me: 1 All mine enemies have heard of mine afflictions, 1 And rejoice because thou hast done it: 1 Thou hast brought on the day, 1 Thou hast called the time: 1 They are become like to me. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:40And they shall confess their sins, and the sins of their fathers, that they have transgressed and neglected me, and that they have walked perversely before me,

1 Kings 8:47and they shall turn their hearts in the land whither they have been carried captives, and turn in the land of their sojourning, and supplicate thee, saying, We have sinned, we have done unjustly, we have transgressed,

Job 33:27Even then a man shall blame himself, saying, 1 What kind of things have I done? and he has not punished me according to the full amount of my sins. 1

Psalms 51:3Why dost thou, O mighty man, boast of iniquity in thy mischief? 1 All the day

Isaiah 16:11Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp for Moab, and thou hast repaired my inward parts as a wall.

Jeremiah 2:35Yet thou saidst, I am innocent: only let his wrath be turned away from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, whereas thou sayest, I have not sinned.

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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