Lamentations 1:9

Good News Translation (US Version)

Her uncleanness was easily seen, but she showed no concern for her fate. Her downfall was terrible; no one can comfort her. Her enemies have won, and she cries to the Lord for mercy.

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:29

They fail to see why they were defeated; they cannot understand what happened.

Isaiah 47:7

You thought you would always be a queen, and did not take these things to heart or think how it all would end.

Lamentations 1:17

“I stretch out my hands, but no one will help me. The Lord has called enemies against me from every side; They treat me like some filthy thing.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Then I looked again at all the injustice that goes on in this world. The oppressed were crying, and no one would help them. No one would help them, because their oppressors had power on their side.

Psalm 25:18

Consider my distress and suffering and forgive all my sins.

Zephaniah 2:10

That is how the people of Moab and Ammon will be punished for their pride and arrogance and for insulting the people of the Lord Almighty.

Jeremiah 48:26

The Lord said, “Make Moab drunk, because it has rebelled against me. Moab will roll in its own vomit, and people will laugh.

Jeremiah 2:34

Your clothes are stained with the blood of the poor and innocent, not with the blood of burglars. “But in spite of all this,

Isaiah 3:8

Yes, Jerusalem is doomed! Judah is collapsing! Everything they say and do is against the Lord; they openly insult God himself.

Psalm 119:153

Look at my suffering, and save me, because I have not neglected your law.

1 Peter 4:17

The time has come for judgment to begin, and God's own people are the first to be judged. If it starts with us, how will it end with those who do not believe the Good News from God?

John 11:19

and many Judeans had come to see Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother's death.

Hosea 2:14

So I am going to take her into the desert again; there I will win her back with words of love.

Lamentations 4:1

Our glittering gold has grown dull; the stones of the Temple lie scattered in the streets.

Lamentations 2:13

O Jerusalem, beloved Jerusalem, what can I say? How can I comfort you? No one has ever suffered like this. Your disaster is boundless as the ocean; there is no possible hope.

Lamentations 1:21

“Listen to my groans; there is no one to comfort me. My enemies are glad that you brought disaster on me. Bring the day you promised; make my enemies suffer as I do.

Jeremiah 50:29

“Tell the archers to attack Babylon. Send out everyone who knows how to use the bow and arrow. Surround the city and don't let anyone escape. Pay it back for all it has done, and treat it as it has treated others, because it acted with pride against me, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 16:7

No one will eat or drink with anyone to offer comfort when a loved one dies. No one will show sympathy, not even for someone who has lost a father or mother.

Jeremiah 13:27

He has seen you do the things he hates. He has seen you go after pagan gods on the hills and in the fields, like a man lusting after his neighbor's wife or like a stallion after a mare. People of Jerusalem, you are doomed! When will you ever be pure?

Jeremiah 5:31

prophets speak nothing but lies; priests rule as the prophets command, and my people offer no objections. But what will they do when it all comes to an end?”

Isaiah 54:11

The Lord says, “O Jerusalem, you suffering, helpless city, with no one to comfort you, I will rebuild your foundations with precious stones.

Isaiah 40:2

Encourage the people of Jerusalem. Tell them they have suffered long enough and their sins are now forgiven. I have punished them in full for all their sins.”

Isaiah 37:29

I have received the report of that rage and that pride of yours, and now I will put a hook through your nose and a bit in your mouth and will take you back by the same road you came.”

Isaiah 37:23

Whom do you think you have been insulting and ridiculing? You have been disrespectful to me, the holy God of Israel.

Isaiah 37:17

Now, Lord, hear us and look at what is happening to us. Listen to all the things that Sennacherib is saying to insult you, the living God.

Isaiah 37:4

The Assyrian emperor has sent his chief official to insult the living God. May the Lord your God hear these insults and punish those who spoke them. So pray to God for those of our people who survive.”

Psalm 140:8

Lord, don't give the wicked what they want; don't let their plots succeed.

Nehemiah 9:32

“O God, our God, how great you are! How terrifying, how powerful! You faithfully keep your covenant promises. From the time when Assyrian kings oppressed us, even till now, how much we have suffered! Our kings, our leaders, our priests and prophets, our ancestors, and all our people have suffered. Remember how much we have suffered!

2 Kings 14:26

The Lord saw the terrible suffering of the Israelites; there was no one at all to help them.

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will notice my misery and give me some blessings to take the place of his curse.”

1 Samuel 1:11

Hannah made a solemn promise: “Lord Almighty, look at me, your servant! See my trouble and remember me! Don't forget me! If you give me a son, I promise that I will dedicate him to you for his whole life and that he will never have his hair cut.”

Deuteronomy 32:27

But I could not let their enemies boast that they had defeated my people, when it was I myself who had crushed them.’

Deuteronomy 26:7

Then we cried out for help to the Lord, the God of our ancestors. He heard us and saw our suffering, hardship, and misery.

Exodus 4:31

They believed, and when they heard that the Lord had come to them and had seen how they were being treated cruelly, they bowed down and worshiped.

Exodus 3:17

I have decided that I will bring them out of Egypt, where they are being treated cruelly, and will take them to a rich and fertile land—the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Hivites, and the Jebusites.

Exodus 3:7

Then the Lord said, “I have seen how cruelly my people are being treated in Egypt; I have heard them cry out to be rescued from their slave drivers. I know all about their sufferings,

Psalm 69:21

When I was hungry, they gave me poison; when I was thirsty, they offered me vinegar.

Isaiah 51:19

A double disaster has fallen on you: your land has been devastated by war, and your people have starved. There is no one to show you sympathy.

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us. Look at us, and see our disgrace.