Lamentations 4:12 - The Scriptures 1998

¹² The sovereigns of the earth did not believe, Nor any of the inhabitants of the world, That an adversary and enemy Would enter the gates of Yerushalayim.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹² The kings of the earth, And all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed That the adversary and the enemy should have entered Into the gates of Jerusalem.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹² The kings of the earth did not believe, nor did any of the inhabitants of the earth, that the oppressor and enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹² The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

Common English Bible

¹² The earth’s rulers didn’t believe it—neither did any who inhabit the world— that either enemy or adversary could enter Jerusalem’s gates.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹² LAMED. The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, did not believe that the adversary and the enemy would enter through the gates of Jerusalem.

Lamentations 4:12 Cross References

2 Kings 25:8

And in the fifth month, on the seventh of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Sovereign Neḇ

Jeremiah 21:13

“See, I am against you, O inhabitant of the valley, rock of the plain,” declares יהוה, “who are saying, ‘Who would come down against us? And who would come into our dwellings?’