Lamentations 1:5

Good News Translation

Her enemies succeeded; they hold her in their power. The Lord has made her suffer for all her many sins; Her children have been captured and taken away.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:15

I will do this to my people because they have sinned against me and have stirred up my anger from the time their ancestors came out of Egypt to this day.”

Psalm 80:6

You let the surrounding nations fight over our land; our enemies insult us.

Psalm 89:42

You have given the victory to his enemies; you have made them all happy.

Isaiah 22:5

This is a time of panic, defeat, and confusion in the Valley of Vision, and the Sovereign Lord Almighty has sent it on us. The walls of our city have been battered down, and cries for help have echoed among the hills.

Isaiah 63:18

We, your holy people, were driven out by our enemies for a little while; they trampled down your sanctuary.

Jeremiah 10:20

Our tents are ruined; the ropes that held them have broken. Our children have all gone away; there is no one left to put up our tents again; there is no one to hang their curtains.”

Jeremiah 12:7

The Lord says, “I have abandoned Israel; I have rejected my chosen nation. I have given the people I love into the power of their enemies.

Jeremiah 23:14

But I have seen the prophets in Jerusalem do even worse: they commit adultery and tell lies; they help people to do wrong, so that no one stops doing what is evil. To me they are all as bad as the people of Sodom and Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 39:9

Finally Nebuzaradan, the commanding officer, took away as prisoners to Babylonia the people who were left in the city, together with those who had deserted to him.

Jeremiah 5:29

“But I, the Lord, will punish them for these things; I will take revenge on this nation.

Lamentations 1:16

“That is why my eyes are overflowing with tears. No one can comfort me; no one can give me courage. The enemy has conquered me; my people have nothing left.

Lamentations 1:18

“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.

Lamentations 1:8

Her honor is gone; she is naked and held in contempt. She groans and hides her face in shame. Jerusalem made herself filthy with terrible sin.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has finally done what he threatened to do: He has destroyed us without mercy, as he warned us long ago. He gave our enemies victory, gave them joy at our downfall.

Lamentations 3:46

“We are insulted and mocked by all our enemies.

Ezekiel 9:10

But I will not have pity on them; I will do to them what they have done to others.”

Ezekiel 9:9

God answered, “The people of Israel and Judah are guilty of terrible sins. They have committed murder all over the land and have filled Jerusalem with crime. They say that I, the Lord, have abandoned their country and that I don't see them.

Deuteronomy 31:29

I know that after my death the people will become wicked and reject what I have taught them. And in time to come they will meet with disaster, because they will have made the Lord angry by doing what he has forbidden.”