Lamentations 1:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

Those who are against her have become the head, everything goes well for her haters; for the Lord has sent sorrow on her because of the great number of her sins: her young children have gone away as prisoners before the attacker.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:15

Because they have done evil in my eyes, moving me to wrath, from the day when their fathers came out of Egypt till this day.

Psalm 80:6

You make us a cause of war among our neighbours; our haters are laughing at us among themselves.

Psalm 89:42

You have given power to the right hand of his haters; you have made glad all those who are against him.

Isaiah 22:5

For it is a day of trouble and of crushing down and of destruction from the Lord, the Lord of armies, in the valley of vision; (UNTRANSLATED TEXT)

Isaiah 63:18

Why have evil men gone over your holy place, so that it has been crushed under the feet of our haters?

Jeremiah 10:20

My tent is pulled down and all my cords are broken: my children have gone from me, and they are not: no longer is there anyone to give help in stretching out my tent and hanging up my curtains.

Jeremiah 12:7

I have given up my house, I have let my heritage go; I have given the loved one of my soul into the hands of her haters.

Jeremiah 23:14

And in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a shocking thing; they are untrue to their wives, walking in deceit, and they make strong the hands of evil-doers, so that a man may not be turned back from his evil-doing: they have all become like Sodom to me, and its people like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 39:9

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the armed men, took away to Babylon as prisoners, all the rest of the workmen who were still in the town, as well as those who had given themselves up to him, and all the rest of the people.

Jeremiah 5:29

Am I not to give punishment for these things? says the Lord: will not my soul take payment from such a nation as this?

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

Lamentations 1:8

Great is the sin of Jerusalem; for this cause she has become an unclean thing: all those who gave her honour are looking down on her, because they have seen her shame: now truly, breathing out grief, she is turned back.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

Lamentations 3:46

The mouths of all our haters are open wide against us.

Ezekiel 9:10

And as for me, my eye will not have mercy, and I will have no pity, but I will send the punishment of their ways on their heads.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, The sin of the children of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is full of blood and the town full of evil ways: for they say, The Lord has gone away from the land, and the Lord does not see.

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I am certain that after my death you will give yourselves up to sin, wandering from the way which I have given you; and evil will overtake you in the end, because you will do evil in the eyes of the Lord, moving him to wrath by the work of your hands.