Lamentations 1:20

Look, 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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Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

In Context

19I 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

21They have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. 1 All my enemies have heard of my trouble and they are glad that you have done it. 1 You have brought the day you promised; now let them become like me. 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 26:40Yet if they confess their sins and their fathers' sin, and their treason by which they were unfaithful to me, and also their walking against me—

1 Kings 8:47Then suppose that they realize they are in the land where they have been exiled, and suppose that they repent and seek favor from you from the land of their captors. Suppose that they say, 'We have acted perversely and sinned. We have behaved wickedly.'

Job 33:27Then that person will sing in front of other people and say, 1 'I sinned and perverted that which was right, 1 but my sin was not punished. 1

Psalms 51:3For I know my transgressions, 1 and my sin is always before me. 1

Isaiah 16:11So my heart sighs like a harp for Moab, and my inward being for Kir Hareseth. 1

Jeremiah 2:35Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' 1 But look! I will bring down judgment on you because you say, 'I have not sinned.' 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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