Lamentations 1:21

New American Bible - revised edition

Hear how I am groaning; there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies hear of my misery and rejoice over what you have done. Bring on the day you proclaimed, and let them become like me!

Cross References

Psalm 35:15

Yet when I stumbled they gathered with glee, gathered against me and I did not know it. They slandered me without ceasing;

Psalm 37:13

But my Lord laughs at them, because he sees that their day is coming.

Psalm 38:16

Lord, it is for you that I wait; O Lord, my God, you respond.

Isaiah 14:5

The Lord has broken the rod of the wicked, the staff of the tyrants

Isaiah 14:6

That struck the peoples in wrath with relentless blows; That ruled the nations in anger, with boundless persecution.

Jeremiah 30:16

Yet all who devour you shall be devoured, all your enemies shall go into exile. All who plunder you shall become plunder, all who pillage you I will hand over to be pillaged.

Jeremiah 48:27

Has Israel not been a laughingstock to you? Was he caught among thieves that you wag your heads whenever you speak of him?

Jeremiah 50:11

Yes, rejoice and exult, you that plunder my heritage; Frisk like calves on the grass, neigh like stallions!

Jeremiah 50:15

raise the war cry against it on every side. It surrenders, its bastions fall, its walls are torn down: This is retribution from the Lord! Take retribution on her, as she has done, do to her; for she sinned against the Lord.

Jeremiah 50:29

Call archers out against Babylon, all who bend the bow; Encamp around them; let no one escape. Repay them for their deeds; what they have done, do to them, For they insulted the Lord, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:31

I am against you, O Insolence— oracle of the Lord God of hosts; For your day has come, the time for me to punish you.

Jeremiah 51:24

Thus I will repay Babylon, all the inhabitants of Chaldea, For all the evil they committed against Zion, before your very eyes—oracle of the Lord.

Jeremiah 51:49

Babylon, too, must fall, you slain of Israel, because by the hand of Babylon the slain of all the earth have fallen.

Lamentations 1:16

For these things I weep—My eyes! My eyes! They stream with tears! How far from me is anyone to comfort, anyone to restore my life. My children are desolate; the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps incessantly in the night, her cheeks damp with tears. She has no one to comfort her from all her lovers; Her friends have all betrayed her, and become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:22

Let all their evil come before you and deal with them As you have so ruthlessly dealt with me for all my rebellions. My groans are many, my heart is sick.”

Lamentations 1:4

The roads to Zion mourn, empty of pilgrims to her feasts. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, Her young women grieve; her lot is bitter.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned grievously, therefore she has become a mockery; Those who honored her now demean her, for they saw her nakedness; She herself groans out loud, and turns away.

Lamentations 2:15

All who pass by on the road, clap their hands at you; They hiss and wag their heads over daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city they used to call perfect in beauty and joy of all the earth?”

Lamentations 2:16

They open their mouths against you, all your enemies; They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, “We have devoured her! How we have waited for this day— we have lived to see it!”

Ezekiel 26:2

Son of man, because Tyre said of Jerusalem: “Aha! The gateway of the peoples is smashed! It has been turned over to me; I will be enriched by its ruin!”

Revelation 18:6

Pay her back as she has paid others. Pay her back double for her deeds. Into her cup pour double what she poured.