Lamentations 1:5

Her oppressors are become the head, 1 And her enemies have prospered; 1 For the Lord has afflicted her 1 Because of the multitude of her sins: 1 Her young children are gone into captivity 1 Before the face of the oppressor. 1

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In The King James Version

Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

In Context

4The ways of Zion mourn, 1 Because there are none that come to the feast: 1 All her gates are ruined: 1 Her priests groan, 1 Her virgins are led captive, 1 And she is in bitterness in herself. 1

6And all her beauty has been taken away 1 From the daughter of Zion: 1 Her princes were as rams finding no pasture, 1 And are gone away in weakness 1 Before the face of the pursuer. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:25And when thou shalt have begotten sons, and shalt have sons’ sons, and ye shall have dwelt a long time on the land, and shall have transgressed, and made a graven image of anything, and shall have done wickedly before the Lord your God to provoke him;

Deuteronomy 28:41Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, and they shall not be thine, for they shall depart into captivity.

Deuteronomy 28:44He shall lend to thee, and thou shalt not lend to him: he shall be the head, and thou shalt be the tail.

Deuteronomy 31:16And the Lord said to Moses, Behold, thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people will arise and go a-whoring after the strange gods of the land, into which they are entering: and they will forsake me, and break my covenant, which I made with them.

Deuteronomy 32:15So Jacob ate and was filled, 1 And the beloved one kicked; 1 He grew fat, he became thick and broad: 1 Then he forsook the God that made him, 1 And departed from God his Savior. 1

2 Chronicles 36:14And all the great men of Judah, and the priests, and the people of the land transgressed abundantly in the abominations of the heathen, and polluted the house of the Lord which was in Jerusalem.

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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