Lamentations 1:20

Modern English Version

Look, O  Lord, for I am in distress; my soul is greatly troubled; my heart is overturned within me, for I have grievously rebelled. In the street the sword bereaves, at home it is like death.

Cross References

Job 30:27

My insides boiled and did not rest; the days of affliction have met me.

Job 33:27

Then he looks at men and says, ‘I have sinned and perverted what was right, and it did not profit me.’

Psalm 22:14

I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within me.

Psalm 38:8

I am feeble and severely broken; I groan because of the disquietness of my heart.

Proverbs 28:13

He who conceals his sins will not prosper, but he who confesses and forsakes them will find mercy.

Isaiah 16:11

Therefore my heart shall sound like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Hareseth.

Isaiah 38:14

Like a crane or a swallow, so I twitter; I mourn as a dove; my eyes look wistfully upward. O  Lord, I am oppressed; undertake for me.

Jeremiah 14:18

If I go out into the field, behold, those slain with the sword! And if I enter the city, behold, those who are sick with famine! Indeed, both the prophet and the priest go about into a land that they do not know.

Jeremiah 14:20

We acknowledge, O  Lord, our wickedness and the iniquity of our fathers, for we have sinned against You.

Jeremiah 2:35

you say, “I am innocent; surely His anger shall turn away from me.” Behold, I will judge you, because you say, “I have not sinned.”

Jeremiah 3:13

Only acknowledge your iniquity, that you have transgressed against the Lord your God and have scattered your ways to the strangers under every green tree, and you have not obeyed My voice, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim My dear son? Is he a pleasant child? For since I spoke against him, I still remember him; therefore My heart longs for him. I will surely have mercy on him, says the Lord.

Jeremiah 4:19

My soul, my soul! I am pained at my very heart. My heart makes a noise in me. I cannot hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

Jeremiah 48:36

Therefore My heart will wail for Moab like pipes, and My heart will wail like pipes for the men of Kir Hareseth, because the riches that they have gotten have perished.

Lamentations 1:11

All her people groan, as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to restore their strength. Look, O  Lord, and consider, for I am despised.

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all peoples, and see my sorrow; my virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously; therefore she has become vile. All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself sighs and turns away.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness is in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is astounding; she has no comforter. “O  Lord, look upon my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes fail with tears, my spirit is greatly troubled; my bile is poured on the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!

Ezekiel 7:15

The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field shall die by the sword; and he who is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him.

Daniel 9:5

We have sinned and have committed iniquity and have done wickedly and have rebelled, even by departing from Your precepts and from Your judgments.

Hosea 11:8

How can I give you up, Ephraim? How can I hand you over, Israel? How can I make you like Admah? How can I treat you like Zeboyim? My heart churns within Me; My compassion is stirred.

Habakkuk 3:16

I heard, and my body trembled; my lips quivered at the sound; rottenness entered my bones; my legs tremble beneath me. Yet I will wait quietly for the day when calamity comes on the people invading us.

Deuteronomy 32:25

The sword outside and terror within will destroy both the young man and the virgin, the infant along with the man of gray hair.