Lamentations 1:19

I called for my friends, but they were treacherous toward me. 1 My priests and my elders perished in the city, 1 while they sought food to restore their lives. 1

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I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

In Context

18Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. 1 Hear, all you peoples, and see my sorrow. 1 My virgins and my vigorous men have gone into captivity. 1

20Look, Yahweh, for I am in distress; my stomach churns, 1 my heart is disturbed within me, for I have been very rebellious. 1 Outside, the sword bereaves a mother, inside the house there is only death. 1

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Cross References

Job 19:13He has put my brothers far from me; 1 my acquaintances are wholly alienated from me. 1

Jeremiah 14:15Therefore Yahweh says this, “About the prophets prophesying in my name but whom I did not send out—those who say there will be no sword or famine in this land: These prophets will perish by sword and famine.

Jeremiah 27:13Why will you die—you and your people—by the sword, famine, and plague, just as I have declared about the nation that refuses to serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 37:7“Yahweh, God of Israel, says this: This is what you will say to the king of Judah, because he has sent you to seek advice from me, 'See, Pharaoh's army, which came to help you, is about to go back to Egypt, its own land.

Lamentations 1:2She weeps and wails in the night, and her tears cover her cheeks. 1 None of her lovers comfort her. 1 All her friends have betrayed her. They have become her enemies. 1

Lamentations 2:20See, Yahweh, and consider those you have dealt in this way. 1 Should women eat the fruit of their wombs, the children whom they have cared for? 1 Should priest and prophet be slaughtered in the sanctuary of the Lord? 1

Matthew Henry on Lamentations 1:13-22

God Acknowledged in Affliction; Jerusalem's Complaint. ( b. c. 588.) 12 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. 13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are… Read the whole commentary →

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