Lamentations 1:7

In the yamim (days) of her affliction 1 and of her persecutions, 1 Yerushalayim remembers all her pleasant things 1 that she had miymei kedem (in the days of old). 1 When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, 1 and there was no ozer (helper) for her, 1 the adversaries saw her, 1 and did mock at her downfall. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

6And from Bat Tziyon 1 all her beauty has departed; 1 her sarim (princes) are become like deer 1 that find no pasture, 1 and they are gone without strength 1 before the rodef (persecutor, pursuer). 1

8Yerushalayim hath grievously sinned; 1 therefore she is niddah + 1:8 Lv 15:19 (unclean, Jewish womanʼs untouchability during menstruation); 1 all that honored her despise her, 1 because they have seen her erom (nakedness); 1 yea, she sigheth, and turneth away for shame. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:34Or hath Elohim tried to go and take Him a nation from the midst of another nation, by massot (trials), by otot, by mofetim, by milchamah, by a yad chazakah, by an outstretched zero'a, by great terrors, according to all that Hashem Eloheicha did for you in Mitzrayim before your eyes?

Job 29:2Oh that I were as in months past, 1 as in the days when Eloah was shomer over me; 1

Psalms 77:3In my yom tzoros (day of trouble) I sought Adonoi; 1 my hand was stretched up in the lailah, and ceased not; 1 my nefesh refused to be comforted. 1

Psalms 79:4We are become a reproach to our shekhenim (neighbors), 1 a scorn and derision to them that are around us. 1

Psalms 147:19He declareth His Devar unto Ya'akov, 1 His chukkot and His mishpatim unto Yisroel. 1

Isaiah 64:10Beis Kadsheinu v'Tifarteinu, 1 where Avoteinu praised Thee, 1 is burned up with eish; 1 and kol machamadeinu (all our desiring) is in ruins. 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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