Lamentations 1:8

Yerushalayim 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

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

In Context

7In 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

9Her filthiness is in her skirts; 1 she remembereth not her latter end; 1 therefore she sank appallingly; 1 she had no Menachem (comforter). 1 O Hashem, behold my affliction; 1 for the enemy hath triumphed. 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:30Therefore Hashem Elohei Yisroel saith, I said indeed that thy Bais, and the Bais Avicha, should walk before Me ad olam (forever); but now Hashem saith, Be it far from Me; for them that honor Me I will honor, and they that despise Me shall be lightly esteemed.

1 Kings 9:6But if ye shall at all turn from following Me, ye or your banim, and will not be shomer over My mitzvot and My chukkot which I have set before you, but go and serve elohim acherim, and hishtachaveh (worship) them;

1 Kings 9:9And they shall answer, Because they forsook Hashem Eloheichem who brought forth their avot out of Eretz Mitzrayim, and have taken hold upon elohim acherim, and have worshiped them, and served them; therefore hath Hashem brought upon them all this ra'ah.

Isaiah 59:2But your avonot (iniquities) have separated you and Eloheichem, 1 and your chattot (sins) have concealed His face from you, 1 that He will not hear. 1

Jeremiah 6:28They are all maximum rebels, 1 going about as rachil (talebearers, slanderers); 1 they are nechoshet and barzel; 1 they are all corrupt. 1

Jeremiah 13:26Therefore will I uncover thy skirts over thy panim, 1 that thy shame may appear. 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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