Lamentations 1:7

In the days of her affliction and her homelessness, Jerusalem will call to mind 1 all her precious treasures that she had in former days. 1 When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, no one helped her. 1 The adversaries saw her and laughed at her destruction. 1

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Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

In Context

6Beauty has left the daughter of Zion. 1 Her princes have become like deer that cannot find pasture, 1 and they go without strength before their pursuer. 1

8Jerusalem sinned greatly, therefore, she has become scorned as something that is filthy. 1 All who honored her now despise her since they have seen her nakedness. 1 She groans and tries to turn away. 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 4:34Or has God ever attempted to go and take for himself a nation from the midst of another nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, as everything that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Job 29:2“Oh, that I were as I was in the past months 1 when God cared for me, 1

Psalms 77:3I thought of God as I groaned; 1 I thought about him as I grew faint. Selah 1

Psalms 79:4We have become a reproach for our neighbors, 1 mocking and derision to those who are around us. 1

Psalms 147:19He proclaimed his word to Jacob, 1 his statutes and his righteous decrees to Israel. 1

Isaiah 64:10Your holy cities have become a wilderness; 1 Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. 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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