Lamentations 1:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ Yehuḏ

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, And because of great servitude: She dwelleth among the heathen, She findeth no rest: All her persecutors overtook her Between the straits.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Judah has gone into exile [to escape] from the affliction and laborious servitude [of the homeland]. She dwells among the [heathen] nations, but she finds no rest; all her persecutors overtook her amid the [dire] straits [of her distress].

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

Common English Bible

³ Judah was exiled after suffering and hard service. She lives among the nations; she finds no rest. All who were chasing her caught her— right in the middle of her distress.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ GHIMEL. Judah has migrated because of affliction and great servitude. She has lived among the nations and not found rest. All of her persecutors have apprehended her, amid torments.

Lamentations 1:3 Cross References

2 Kings 25:11

And Neḇ

2 Kings 25:21

And the sovereign of Baḇ

2 Kings 25:4

Then the city wall was breached, and all the men of battle fled at night by way of the gate between two walls, which was by the sovereign’s garden, even though the Chaldeans were still encamped all around against the city. And the sovereign went by way of the desert plain.

2 Kings 25:5

And the army of the Chaldeans pursued the sovereign, and overtook him in the desert plains of Yeriḥ

Jeremiah 13:19

The cities of the South shall be shut up, with no one to open them. Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 16:16

“See, I am sending for many fishermen,” declares יהוה, “and they shall fish them. And after that I shall send for many hunters, and they shall hunt them from every mountain and every hill, and out of the holes of the rocks.

Jeremiah 24:9

‘And I shall make them a horror to all the reigns of the earth, for evil, to be a reproach and a byword, a mockery and a curse, in all the places to which I drive them.

Jeremiah 39:9

And Neḇ

Jeremiah 52:15

And Neḇ

Jeremiah 52:8

But the army of the Chaldeans pursued the sovereign, and they overtook Tsiḏ

Lamentations 2:9

Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her sovereign and her rulers are among the gentiles. The Torah is no more, And her prophets have found no vision from יהוה.

Lamentations 4:15

They shouted at them, “Away! Unclean! Away! Away! Touch not!” When they fled and staggered, They said, among the gentiles, “They shall stay no longer.”

Lamentations 5:5

We have been pursued close onto our neck, We have laboured and had no rest.

Ezekiel 5:12

‘One-third of you shall die of pestilence, and be consumed with scarcity of food in your midst. And one-third shall fall by the sword all around you. And I shall scatter another third to all the winds, and draw out a sword after them.

Deuteronomy 28:48

you shall serve your enemies whom יהוה  sends against you, in hunger, and in thirst, and in nakedness, and in need of all. And he shall put a yoke of iron on your neck until he has destroyed you.