Lamentations 1:11

All her people sigh, they seek lechem; 1 they have given their precious things 1 for bread to revive the nefesh; 1 see, O Hashem, and consider 1 that I am become despised. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

In Context

10The adversary hath spread out his hand 1 upon all her precious things; 1 for she hath seen how the Goyim 1 entered into her [Beis] Hamikdash, 1 whom Thou didst command that 1 they should not enter into Thy Kahal (congregation, community). 1

12Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? 1 Consider, and see 1 if there be any sorrow like my sorrow, 1 which is done unto me, 1 wherewith Hashem hath afflicted me 1 in the Yom Charon Af (day of His fierce anger). 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:52And it shall besiege thee in all thy she'arim, until thy high and fortified walls come down, wherein thou trusted, throughout all thy land; and it shall besiege thee in all thy she'arim throughout all thy land, which Hashem Eloheicha hath given thee.

2 Kings 6:25And there was a ra'av gadol in Shomron; and, hinei, they laid siege to it, until a rosh chamor was sold for fourscore pieces of kesef, and a quarter of a kav of doveʼs dung for five pieces of kesef.

Psalms 25:15[Ayin] Mine eyes are ever toward Hashem; 1 for He shall pluck my feet out of the reshet (net). 1

Jeremiah 19:9And I will cause them to eat the basar of their banim and the basar of their banot, and they shall eat every one the basar of his re'a in the siege and desperation, wherewith their oyevim, and they that seek their nefesh, shall drive them to despair.

Jeremiah 52:6And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the ra'av (famine) was severe in the Ir, so that there was no lechem for the Am HaAretz.

Lamentations 1:19I called for my lovers, 1 but they have deceived me; 1 my kohanim and my zekenim 1 gave up the ghost + 1:19 i.e., expired in HaIr (the City), 1 while they sought okhel (food) 1 to revive their nefashot. 1

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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