Lamentations 1:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; her downfall was appalling, with none to comfort her. Look, O Lord, at my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ Her filthiness is in her skirts; She remembereth not her last end; Therefore she came down wonderfully: She had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: For the enemy hath magnified himself.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Her filthiness was in and on her skirts; she did not [seriously and earnestly] consider her final end. Therefore she has come down [from throne to slavery] singularly and astonishingly; she has no comforter. O Lord [cries Jerusalem], look at my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself [in triumph]!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Common English Bible

⁹ Her uncleanness shows on her clothing; she didn’t consider what would happen to her. She’s gone down shockingly; she has no comforter. “LORD, look at my suffering—the enemy has definitely triumphed!”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ TETH. Her filth is on her feet, and her end has not been remembered. She has been vehemently put down, having no consolation. O Lord, look upon my affliction, for the adversary has been lifted up.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet and she hath not remembered her end: she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter. Behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.

Lamentations 1:9 Cross References

2 Samuel 16:12

It may be that the Lord will look on my distress, and the Lord will repay me with good for this cursing of me today.”

2 Kings 14:26

For the Lord saw that the distress of Israel was very bitter; there was no one left, bond or free, and no one to help Israel.

Nehemiah 9:32

“Now therefore, our God—the great and mighty and awesome God, keeping covenant and steadfast love—do not treat lightly all the hardship that has come upon us, upon our kings, our officials, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and all your people, since the time of the kings of Assyria until today.

Psalm 119:153

Look on my misery and rescue me, for I do not forget your law.

Psalm 140:8

Do not grant, O Lord, the desires of the wicked; do not further their evil plot. Selah

Psalm 25:18

Consider my affliction and my trouble, and forgive all my sins.

Psalm 69:21

They gave me poison for food, and for my thirst they gave me vinegar to drink.

Exodus 3:17

I declare that I will bring you up out of the misery of Egypt, to the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have observed the misery of my people who are in Egypt; I have heard their cry on account of their taskmasters. Indeed, I know their sufferings,

Exodus 4:31

The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had given heed to the Israelites and that he had seen their misery, they bowed down and worshiped.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. Look, the tears of the oppressed—with no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power—with no one to comfort them.

Isaiah 3:8

For Jerusalem has stumbled, and Judah has fallen, because their speech and their deeds are against the Lord, defying his glorious presence.

Isaiah 37:17

Incline your ear, O Lord, and hear; open your eyes, O Lord, and see; hear all the words of Sennacherib, which he has sent to mock the living God.

Isaiah 37:23

“Whom have you mocked and reviled? Against whom have you raised your voice and haughtily lifted your eyes? Against the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 37:29

Because you have raged against me and your arrogance has come to my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth; I will turn you back on the way by which you came.

Isaiah 37:4

It may be that the Lord your God heard the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to mock the living God, and will rebuke the words that the Lord your God has heard; therefore lift up your prayer for the remnant that is left.” [[

Isaiah 40:2

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I shall be mistress forever,” so that you did not lay these things to heart or remember their end.

Isaiah 51:19

These two things have befallen you —who will grieve with you?— devastation and destruction, famine and sword. Who will comfort you?

Isaiah 54:11

O afflicted one, storm-tossed and not comforted, I am about to set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Jeremiah 13:27

I have seen your abominations, your adulteries and neighings, your shameless prostitutions on the hills of the countryside. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are made clean?

Jeremiah 16:7

No one shall break bread for the mourner, to offer comfort for the dead, nor shall anyone give them the cup of consolation to drink for their fathers or their mothers.

Jeremiah 2:34

Also on your skirts is found the lifeblood of the innocent poor, though you did not catch them breaking in. Yet in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 48:26

Make him drunk because he magnified himself against the Lord; let Moab wallow in his vomit; he, too, shall become a laughingstock.

Jeremiah 5:31

the prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule as the prophets direct; my people love to have it so, but what will you do when the end comes?

Jeremiah 50:29

Summon archers against Babylon, all who bend the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; just as she has done, do to her—for she has arrogantly defied the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Lamentations 1:17

Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her; the Lord has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should become his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

Lamentations 1:21

They heard how I was groaning, with no one to comfort me. All my enemies heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. Bring on the day that you have announced, and let them be as I am.

Lamentations 2:13

What can I say for you, to what compare you, O daughter Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter Zion? For vast as the sea is your ruin; who can heal you?

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has grown dim; how the pure gold is changed! The sacred stones lie scattered at the head of every street.

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; look, and see our disgrace!

Hosea 2:14

Therefore, I will now allure her and bring her into the wilderness and speak tenderly to her.

Zephaniah 2:10

This shall be their lot in return for their pride, because they scoffed and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.

John 11:19

and many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to console them about their brother.

Deuteronomy 26:7

we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors; the Lord heard our voice and saw our affliction, our toil, and our oppression.

Deuteronomy 32:27

but I feared provocation by the enemy, for their adversaries might misunderstand and say, “Our hand is triumphant; it was not the Lord who did all this.” ’

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they were wise, they would understand this; they would discern what their end would be.

1 Peter 4:17

For the time has come for judgment to begin with the household of God; if it begins with us, what will be the end for those who do not obey the gospel of God?

1 Samuel 1:11

She made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if only you will look on the misery of your servant and remember me and not forget your servant but will give to your servant a male child, then I will set him before you as a nazirite until the day of his death. He shall drink neither wine nor intoxicants, and no razor shall touch his head.”