Lamentations 3:51

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I am horrified when I see what enemies have done to the young women of our city.

Cross References

Genesis 44:34

How can I face my father if Benjamin isn't with me? I couldn't bear to see my father in such sorrow.

Jeremiah 11:22

But I will punish them. Their young men will die in battle, and their children will starve to death.

Jeremiah 14:16

And everyone who listens to them will be killed, just as they deserve. Their dead bodies will be thrown out into the streets of Jerusalem, because their families will also be dead, and no one will be left to bury them.

Jeremiah 14:18

In the fields I see the bodies of those killed in battle. And in the towns I see crowds dying of hunger. But the prophets and priests go about their business, without understanding what has happened.”

Jeremiah 19:9

And while your enemies are trying to break through your city walls to kill you, the food supply will run out. You will become so hungry that you will eat the flesh of your friends and even of your own children.

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 2:11

My eyes are red from crying, my stomach is in knots, and I feel sick all over. My people are being wiped out, and children lie helpless in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:21

My people, both young and old, lie dead in the streets. Because you were angry, my young men and women were brutally slaughtered.

Lamentations 3:50

until the LORD looks down from heaven and helps.

Lamentations 3:52

No one had reason to hate me, but I was hunted down like a bird.

Lamentations 5:11

On Zion and everywhere in Judah our wives and daughters are being raped.