Lamentations 1:5

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Enemies now rule the city and live as they please. The LORD has punished Jerusalem because of her awful sins; he has let her people be dragged away.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:15

My people have done what I hate and have not stopped making me angry since their ancestors left Egypt.

Psalm 80:6

Because of you, our enemies who live nearby laugh and joke about us.

Psalm 89:42

You made his enemies powerful and let them celebrate.

Isaiah 22:5

The LORD All-Powerful had chosen a time for noisy shouts and confusion to fill Vision Valley, and for everyone to beg the mountains for help.

Isaiah 63:18

For a little while, your temple belonged to us; and now our enemies have torn it down.

Jeremiah 10:20

Our homes are destroyed; our children are dead. No one is left to help us find shelter.”

Jeremiah 12:7

I loved my people and chose them as my very own. But now I will reject them and hand them over to their enemies.

Jeremiah 23:14

And you prophets in Jerusalem are even worse. You're unfaithful in marriage and never tell the truth. You even lead others to sin instead of helping them turn back to me. You and the people of Jerusalem are evil like Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 39:9

Nebuzaradan, the Babylonian officer in charge of the guards, led away everyone from the city as prisoners, even those who had deserted to Nebuchadnezzar.

Jeremiah 5:29

You need to be punished, and so I will take revenge.

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 1:18

The LORD was right, but I refused to obey him. Now I ask all of you to look at my sufferings— even my young people have been dragged away.

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 2:17

The LORD has done everything that he had planned and threatened long ago. He destroyed you without mercy and let your enemies boast about their powerful forces.

Lamentations 3:46

our enemies curse us.

Ezekiel 9:10

And so I will not have pity on them or forgive them. They will be punished for what they have done.”

Ezekiel 9:9

The LORD answered, “The people of Israel and Judah have done horrible things. Their country is filled with murderers, and Jerusalem itself is filled with violence. They think that I have deserted them, and that I can't see what they are doing.

Deuteronomy 31:29

I am going to die soon, and I know that in the future you will stop caring about what is right and what is wrong, and so you will disobey the LORD and stop living the way I told you to live. The LORD will be angry, and terrible things will happen to you.