Lamentations 1:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Her foes have come out on top, her enemies are secure; Because the Lord has afflicted her for her many rebellions. Her children have gone away, captive before the foe.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:15

because they have done what is evil in my sight and provoked me from the day their ancestors came forth from Egypt until this very day.”

Psalm 80:6

You have fed them the bread of tears, made them drink tears in great measure.

Psalm 89:42

All who pass through seize plunder; his neighbors deride him.

Isaiah 22:5

It is a day of panic, rout and confusion, from the Lord, the God of hosts, in the Valley of Vision Walls crash; a cry for help to the mountains.

Isaiah 63:18

Why have the wicked invaded your holy place, why have our enemies trampled your sanctuary?

Jeremiah 10:20

My tent is ruined, all its cords are severed. My children have left me, they are no more: no one to pitch my tent, no one to raise its curtains.

Jeremiah 12:7

I have abandoned my house, cast off my heritage; The beloved of my soul I have delivered into the hand of her foes.

Jeremiah 23:14

But among Jerusalem’s prophets I saw something more shocking: Adultery, walking in deception, strengthening the power of the wicked, so that no one turns from evil; To me they are all like Sodom, its inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 39:9

Nebuzaradan, captain of the bodyguard, deported to Babylon the rest of the people left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the rest of the workers.

Jeremiah 5:29

Shall I not punish these things?—oracle of the Lord; on a nation such as this shall I not take vengeance?

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 1:18

“The Lord is in the right; I had defied his command. Listen, all you peoples, and see my pain: My young women and young men have gone into captivity.

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 2:17

The Lord has done what he planned. He has fulfilled the threat Decreed from days of old, destroying without pity! He let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

Lamentations 3:46

They have opened their mouths against us, all our enemies;

Ezekiel 9:10

My eye, however, will not spare, nor shall I take pity, but I will bring their conduct down upon their heads.

Ezekiel 9:9

He answered me: The guilt of the house of Israel and the house of Judah is too great to measure; the land is filled with bloodshed, the city with lawlessness. They think that the Lord has abandoned the land, that he does not see them.

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after my death you are sure to act corruptly and to turn aside from the way along which I commanded you, so that evil will befall you in time to come because you have done what is evil in the Lord’s sight, and provoked him by your deeds. The Song of Moses.