Lamentations 1:7

Modern English Version

In the days of her affliction and misery Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, there was no one to help her. The adversaries saw her and mocked at her desolation.

Cross References

Psalm 79:4

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scorn and derision to those who are around us.

Psalm 42:4

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul within me. For I would go with the throng of people, and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping festival.

Luke 16:25

“But Abraham said, ‘Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.

Luke 15:17

“When he came to himself, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have an abundance of bread, and here I am perishing with hunger!

Micah 4:11

But now many nations are gathered against you, saying, “May she be defiled, and may our eyes gaze upon Zion.”

Hosea 2:7

She will pursue her lovers, but she will not reach them; and she will seek them but will not find them. Then she will say, “I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.”

Lamentations 4:17

Our eyes failed us, watching vainly for help; in our watchtowers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

Jeremiah 37:7

Thus says the Lord, the God of Israel: Thus you shall say to the king of Judah who sent you to Me to inquire of Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army which has come out to help you shall return to Egypt, to its own land.

Psalm 77:3

I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed.   Selah

Job 29:2

“Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and beautiful house where our fathers praised You is burned up with fire; and all our precious things are laid waste.

Jeremiah 48:27

For was not Israel a derision to you? Or was he caught among thieves? For each time you speak of him, you shake your head in scorn.

Isaiah 64:10

Your holy cities are a wilderness; Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Ezekiel 25:3

and say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord God. Thus says the Lord God: Because you said, “Aha!” against My sanctuary when it was profaned, and against the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and against the house of Judah when they went into captivity,

Ezekiel 25:6

For thus says the Lord God: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced in heart with all your spite against the land of Israel,