Lamentations 1:21

They 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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They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

In Context

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

22Let all their wickedness come before you. 1 deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. 1 My groans are many and my heart is faint.

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Cross References

Psalms 35:15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; 1 they gathered together against me, and I was surprised by them. 1 They tore at me without stopping. 1

Psalms 38:16I say this so that my enemies will not gloat over me. 1 If my foot slips, they will do terrible things to me. 1

Isaiah 13:1A declaration about Babylon, that Isaiah son of Amoz received: 1

Isaiah 51:22Your Lord Yahweh, your God, who pleads the cause of his people, says this, 1 “See, I have taken the cup of staggering from your hand— 1 the bowl, which is the cup of my anger—so that you will not drink it again. 1

Jeremiah 30:16So everyone who consumes you will be consumed, and all of your adversaries will go into captivity. 1 For the ones who have plundered you will become plunder, and I will make all of the ones despoiling you a spoil. 1

Jeremiah 48:27For did not Israel become an object for laughter to you? Was he found among thieves, so that you shook your head at him as often as you spoke about him? 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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