Lamentations 1:5

Modern English Version

Her adversaries have become her masters, her enemies prosper; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:15

because they have done evil in My sight and have provoked Me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”

Psalm 80:6

You have made us a source of contention to our neighbors, and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 89:42

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Isaiah 22:5

For it is a day of trouble and of treading down and of perplexity by the Lord God of Hosts in the Valley of Vision, a breaking down of the walls and a crying to the mountains.

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down.

Jeremiah 10:20

My tabernacle is devastated, and all my cords are broken. My sons have gone from me and are no more. There is no one to spread my tent anymore, and to set up my curtains.

Jeremiah 12:7

I have forsaken My house, I have abandoned My inheritance; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

Jeremiah 23:14

I have seen also among the prophets of Jerusalem a horrible thing. They commit adultery and walk in lies. They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one repents from his wickedness. All of them are as Sodom to Me and her inhabitants as Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 39:9

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive into Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city, and those who fell away, who fell to him, with the rest of the people who remained.

Jeremiah 5:29

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for the comforter, who should relieve my soul, is far from me. My children are desolate for the enemy has prevailed.

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 2:17

The Lord has done what He planned; He has fulfilled His word that He had commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down and has not pitied, and He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the power of your adversaries.

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Ezekiel 9:10

But as for Me, My eye shall not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their way upon their heads.”

Ezekiel 9:9

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of blood, and the city is full of perverseness, for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after my death you will utterly corrupt yourselves and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you, and disaster will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.”