Lamentations 1:18

Good News Translation

“But the Lord is just, for I have disobeyed him. Listen to me, people everywhere; look at me in my pain. My young men and women have been taken away captive.

Cross References

1 Kings 13:21

and he cried out to the prophet from Judah, “The Lord says that you disobeyed him and did not do what he commanded.

Ezra 9:13

Even after everything that has happened to us in punishment for our sins and wrongs, we know that you, our God, have punished us less than we deserve and have allowed us to survive.

Nehemiah 9:26

“But your people rebelled and disobeyed you; they turned their backs on your Law. They killed the prophets who warned them, who told them to turn back to you. They insulted you time after time,

Nehemiah 9:33

You have done right to punish us; you have been faithful, even though we have sinned.

Psalm 107:11

because they had rebelled against the commands of Almighty God and had rejected his instructions.

Psalm 119:137

You are righteous, Lord, and your laws are just.

Psalm 119:75

I know that your judgments are righteous, Lord, and that you punished me because you are faithful.

Psalm 145:17

The Lord is righteous in all he does, merciful in all his acts.

Exodus 9:27

The king sent for Moses and Aaron and said, “This time I have sinned; the Lord is in the right, and my people and I are in the wrong.

Jeremiah 12:1

“Lord, if I argued my case with you, you would prove to be right. Yet I must question you about matters of justice. Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why do dishonest people succeed?

Jeremiah 32:23

But when they came into this land and took possession of it, they did not obey your commands or live according to your teaching; they did nothing that you had ordered them to do. And so you brought all this destruction on them.

Jeremiah 4:17

and will surround Jerusalem like men guarding a field, because her people have rebelled against the Lord. The Lord has spoken.

Jeremiah 49:12

“If even those who did not deserve to be punished had to drink from the cup of punishment, do you think that you will go unpunished? No, you must drink from the cup!

Lamentations 1:12

“Look at me!” she cries to everyone who passes by. “No one has ever had pain like mine, Pain that the Lord brought on me in the time of his anger.

Lamentations 3:42

“We have sinned and rebelled, and you, O Lord, have not forgiven us.

Lamentations 5:16

Nothing is left of all we were proud of. We sinned, and now we are doomed.

Daniel 9:5

“We have sinned, we have been evil, we have done wrong. We have rejected what you commanded us to do and have turned away from what you showed us was right.

Daniel 9:7

You, Lord, always do what is right, but we have always brought disgrace on ourselves. This is true of all of us who live in Judea and in Jerusalem and of all the Israelites whom you scattered in countries near and far because they were unfaithful to you.

Amos 8:13

On that day even healthy young men and women will collapse from thirst.

Zephaniah 3:5

But the Lord is still in the city; he does what is right and never what is wrong. Every morning without fail, he brings justice to his people. And yet the unrighteous people there keep on doing wrong and are not ashamed.

Zechariah 1:6

Through my servants the prophets I gave your ancestors commands and warnings, but they disregarded them and suffered the consequences. Then they repented and acknowledged that I, the Lord Almighty, had punished them as they deserved and as I had determined to do.’”

Romans 2:5

But you have a hard and stubborn heart, and so you are making your own punishment even greater on the Day when God's anger and righteous judgments will be revealed.

Romans 3:19

Now we know that everything in the Law applies to those who live under the Law, in order to stop all human excuses and bring the whole world under God's judgment.

Deuteronomy 32:4

“The Lord is your mighty defender, perfect and just in all his ways; Your God is faithful and true; he does what is right and fair.

Judges 1:7

Adonibezek said, “Seventy kings with their thumbs and big toes cut off have picked up scraps under my table. God has now done to me what I did to them.” He was taken to Jerusalem, where he died.

1 Samuel 15:23

Rebellion against him is as bad as witchcraft, and arrogance is as sinful as idolatry. Because you rejected the Lord's command, he has rejected you as king.”