Lamentations 1:12

Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? 1 Look and see if there is anyone else's sorrow like the sorrow that is being inflicted on me, 1 since Yahweh has tormented me on the day of his fierce anger. 1

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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 groan as they search for bread. 1 They have given their precious treasures for food to restore their lives. 1 Look, Yahweh, and consider me, for I have become worthless. 1

13It is from on high that he has sent fire into my bones, and it has conquered them. 1 He has spread a net for my feet and turned me back. 1 He has made me constantly desolate and weak. 1

Read all of Lamentations 1

Cross References

Jeremiah 10:19Woe to me! Because of my broken bones, my wound is infected. 1 So I said, “Surely this is agony, but I must bear it.” 1

Jeremiah 30:24Yahweh's wrath will not return until it has carried out and brought into being his heart's intentions. 1 In the final days, you will understand it.”

Lamentations 2:13What can I say to you, daughter of Jerusalem? 1 To what can I compare to you, that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion? 1 Your wound is as great as the sea. Who can heal you? 1

Daniel 9:12Yahweh has confirmed the words that he spoke against us and against our rulers over us, by bringing on us a great disaster. For under the whole of heaven there has not been done anything that could compare with what has been done to Jerusalem.

Luke 21:22For these are days of vengeance, so that all the things that are written will be fulfilled.

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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