Lamentations 1:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Zion reaches out her hands, but no one offers comfort. The LORD has turned the neighbouring nations against Jacob's descendants. Jerusalem is merely a filthy rag to her neighbours.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:22

Solomon stood facing the altar with everyone standing behind him. Then he lifted his arms towards heaven

1 Kings 8:38

Listen when anyone in Israel truly feels sorry and sincerely prays with arms lifted towards your temple.

2 Kings 25:1

In Zedekiah's ninth year as king, on the tenth day of the tenth month, King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia led his entire army to attack Jerusalem. The troops set up camp outside the city and built ramps up to the city walls.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

I looked again and saw people being ill-treated everywhere on earth. They were crying, but no one was there to offer comfort, and those who ill-treated them were powerful.

Isaiah 1:15

“No matter how much you pray, I won't listen. You are too violent.

Isaiah 54:11

Jerusalem, you are sad and discouraged, tossed around in a storm. But I, the LORD, will rebuild your city with precious stones; for your foundation I will use blue sapphires.

Jeremiah 12:9

My people are like a hawk surrounded and attacked by other hawks. Tell the wild animals to come and eat their fill.

Jeremiah 15:5

People of Jerusalem, who will feel sorry for you? Will anyone bother to ask if you are well?

Jeremiah 16:6

Rich and poor alike will die and be left unburied. No one will mourn and show their sorrow by cutting themselves or shaving their heads.

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard groaning and crying. Was it a woman giving birth to her first child? No, it was Jerusalem. She was gasping for breath and begging for help. “I'm dying!” she said. “They have murdered me.”

Jeremiah 8:18

I'm burdened with sorrow and feel like giving up.

Lamentations 1:16

Because of this, I mourn, and tears flood my eyes. No one is here to comfort or to encourage me; we have lost the war— my people are suffering.

Lamentations 1:19

I called out to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and my leaders died while searching the city for scraps of food.

Lamentations 1:2

Each night, bitter tears flood her cheeks. None of her former lovers are there to offer comfort; her friends have betrayed her and are now her enemies.

Lamentations 1:21

Everyone heard my groaning, but no one offered comfort. My enemies know of the trouble that you have brought on me, and it makes them glad. Hurry and punish them, as you have promised.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem's horrible sins have made the city a joke. Those who once admired her now hate her instead— she has been disgraced; she groans and turns away.

Lamentations 1:9

Her sins had made her filthy, but she wasn't worried about what could happen. And when Jerusalem fell, it was so tragic. No one gave her comfort when she cried out, “Help! I'm in trouble, LORD! The enemy has won.”

Lamentations 4:15

Instead, everyone shouted, “Go away! Don't touch us! You're filthy and unfit to belong to God's people!” So they had to leave and become refugees. But foreign nations told them, “You can't stay here!”

Ezekiel 36:17

Ezekiel, son of man, when the people of Israel were living in their own country, they made the land unclean by the way they behaved, just as a woman's monthly period makes her unclean.

Hosea 8:8

Israel, you are ruined, and now the nations consider you worthless.