Lamentations 1:12

Is 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

11All 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

13From above hath He sent eish 1 into my atzamot (bones), and it prevaileth against them; 1 He hath spread a net for my feet, 1 He hath turned me back; 1 He hath made me desolate and kol hayom (ever) languishing. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 10:19Oy li (woe is me) for my disaster! 1 My wound is grievous; 1 but I said: Truly this is a sickness, 1 and I must bear it. 1

Jeremiah 30:24The Charon Af Hashem shall not return, 1 until He hath accomplished it, 1 and until He have performed 1 the mezimmot (intents, purposes) of His lev; 1 in the acharit hayamim (latter days) ye shall understand this. 1

Lamentations 2:13What thing shall I say to thee? 1 What thing shall I liken to thee, O Bat Yerushalayim? 1 What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, 1 O Betulat Bat Tziyon? 1 For thy shever (destruction) is as gadol as the yam. 1 Who can heal thee? 1

Daniel 9:12And He hath confirmed His words, which He spoke concerning us, and concerning our shofetim who judged us, that He would bring upon us a ra'ah gedolah, so that there has not been done under kol HaShomayim what has been done to Yerushalayim.

Luke 21:22Because these are the Yemei Nekamah (Days of Vengeance), as a fulfillment of all the Kitvei Hakodesh. + 21:22 Isa 63:4; Dan 9:24-27; Hos 9:7

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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