Lamentations 1:7

Jerusalem remembereth, in the days of her affliction and of her oppression, All her pleasant things, which she had in the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and she had no helper; Her adversaries saw her, and mocked at her destruction.

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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

6From the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed; Her princes are become like harts, that find no pasture; Without strength, they flee before the pursuer.

8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore is she become vile; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her shame; She sigheth, and turneth backward.

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Cross References

Job 29:2O that I were as in months past, In the days when God was my guardian;

Psalms 77:3I remember God, and am disquieted; I think of him, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

Psalms 79:4We have become the reproach of our neighbors,—The scorn and derision of those around us.

Psalms 147:19He publisheth his word to Jacob, His statutes and laws to Israel.

Isaiah 64:10Thy holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

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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