Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment.Please listen all you people, and see my suffering.My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.QOPH

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In The King James Version

The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

In Context

17Zion spreads forth her hands; there is none to comfort her.The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries.Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.TZADE

19I called for my lovers, but they deceived me.My priests and my elders perished in the city,while they searched for food to refresh their souls.RESH

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 28:32Your sons and your daughters shall be given to another people; and your eyes shall look, and fail with longing for them all the day: and there shall be nothing in the power of your hand.

Deuteronomy 32:4The Rock, his work is perfect,for all his ways are justice:a God of faithfulness and without iniquity,just and right is he.

1 Samuel 12:14If you will fear the Lord, and serve him, and listen to his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then both you and also the king who reigns over you are followers of the Lord your God.

1 Kings 9:8Though this house is so high, yet shall everyone who passes by it be astonished, and shall hiss; and they shall say, 'Why has the Lord done thus to this land, and to this house?'

Ezra 9:13"After all that has come on us for our evil deeds, and for our great guilt, since you, our God, have punished us less than our iniquities deserve, and have given us such a remnant,

Nehemiah 9:26"Nevertheless they were disobedient, and rebelled against you, and cast your law behind their back, and killed your prophets that testified against them to turn them again to you, and they committed awful blasphemies.

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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