Lamentations 1:19

I called to my lovers, they, deceived me, My priests and mine elders, in the city, have breathed their last,—for they sought them food, that they might bring back their life.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

In Context

18Righteous is Yahweh, for, against his bidding, had I rebelled,—Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men, have gone into exile.

20See, O Yahweh, that I am in distress, Mine inward parts, are in ferment, My heart is turned within me, for I have obstinately rebelled,—Without, bereaveth the sword, Within, is like death,

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Cross References

Job 19:13My Brethren—from beside me, hath he moved far away, and, mine acquaintance, are wholly estranged from me;

Jeremiah 14:15Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh concerning the prophets who are prophesying in my Name though, I, sent them not, and yet, they have been, saying, Neither sword nor famine, shall there be in this land,—By sword or by famine, shall, those prophets, be consumed;

Jeremiah 27:13Wherefore, should ye die, thou, and thy people, by sword, by famine, and by pestilence,—as Yahweh hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?

Jeremiah 37:7Thus, saith Yahweh, God of Israel, Thus, shall ye say unto the king of Judah, who sent you unto me to enquire of me,—Lo! the force of Pharaoh which is coming out to you to help is about to return to its own land to Egypt;

Lamentations 1:2She, weepeth sore, in the night, and, her tear, is on her cheek, She hath none to comfort her, of all her lovers,—All her friends, have betrayed her, have become her foes.

Lamentations 2:20See, O Yahweh, and do consider, to whom thou hast acted thus severely,—Will women, devour, their own fruit—the children they have dandled? Shall priest and prophet, be slain in the sanctuary of My Lord?

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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