Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem 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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Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

In Context

7In 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

9She has become unclean beneath her skirts. She did not think about her future. 1 Her fall was terrible. There was no one to comfort her. 1 She cried out, “Look at my affliction, Yahweh, for the enemy has become too great!” 1

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Cross References

1 Samuel 2:30For Yahweh, the God of Israel, says, 'I promised that your house, and the house of your ancestor, should walk before me forever.' But now Yahweh says, 'Far be it from me to do this, for I will honor those who honor me, but those who despise me will be lightly esteemed.

1 Kings 9:6But if you turn away, you or your children, and do not keep my commandments and my statutes that I have placed before you, and if you go and worship other gods and bow down to them,

1 Kings 9:9Others will answer, 'Because they forsook Yahweh, their God, who had brought their ancestors out of the land of Egypt, and they laid hold of other gods and bowed down to them and worshiped them. That is why Yahweh has brought all this disaster on them.'”

Isaiah 59:2Your sinful acts, however, have separated you from your God, 1 and your sins have made him hide his face from you and from hearing you. 1

Jeremiah 6:28They are all the most stubborn of people, who go about slandering others. 1 All of them are bronze and iron, acting corruptly. 1

Jeremiah 13:26So also I myself will strip your skirts off you, and your private parts will be seen. 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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