Lamentations 1:9

New American Bible - revised edition

Her uncleanness is on her skirt; she has no thought of her future. Her downfall is astonishing, with no one to comfort her. “Look, O Lord, at my misery; how the enemy triumphs!”

Cross References

Deuteronomy 32:29

If they had insight they would realize this, they would understand their end:

Isaiah 47:7

You said, “I shall remain always, a sovereign mistress forever!” You did not take these things to heart, but disregarded their outcome.

Lamentations 1:17

Zion stretches out her hands, with no one to comfort her; The Lord has ordered against Jacob his foes all around; Jerusalem has become in their midst a thing unclean.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that take place under the sun: the tears of the victims with none to comfort them! From the hand of their oppressors comes violence, and there is none to comfort them!

Psalm 25:18

Look upon my affliction and suffering; take away all my sins.

Zephaniah 2:10

This will be the recompense for their pride, because they taunted and boasted against the people of the Lord of hosts.

Jeremiah 48:26

Make him drunk because he set himself over against the Lord; let Moab swim in his vomit and become a laughingstock.

Jeremiah 2:34

On your clothing is the life-blood of the innocent, you did not find them committing burglary;

Isaiah 3:8

Jerusalem has stumbled, Judah has fallen; for their speech and deeds affront the Lord, a provocation in the sight of his majesty.

Psalm 119:153

Look at my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten your law.

1 Peter 4:17

For it is time for the judgment to begin with the household of God; if it begins with us, how will it end for those who fail to obey the gospel of God?

John 11:19

And many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.

Hosea 2:14

I will lay waste her vines and fig trees, of which she said, “These are the fees my lovers have given me”; I will turn them into rank growth and wild animals shall devour them.

Lamentations 4:1

How the gold has lost its luster, the noble metal changed; Jewels lie scattered at the corner of every street.

Lamentations 2:13

To what can I compare you—to what can I liken you— O daughter Jerusalem? What example can I give in order to comfort you, virgin daughter Zion? For your breach is vast as the sea; who could heal you?

Lamentations 1:21

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!

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 16:7

They will not break bread with the bereaved to offer consolation for the dead; they will not give them the cup of consolation to drink over the death of father or mother.

Jeremiah 13:27

Your adulteries, your neighings, your shameless prostitutions: On the hills, in the fields I see your detestable crimes. Woe to you, Jerusalem! How long will it be before you are clean?

Jeremiah 5:31

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests teach on their own authority; Yet my people like it this way; what will you do when the end comes?

Isaiah 54:11

O afflicted one, storm-battered and unconsoled, I lay your pavements in carnelians, your foundations in sapphires;

Isaiah 40:2

Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service has ended, that her guilt is expiated, That she has received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

Isaiah 37:29

Because you rage against me and your smugness has reached my ears, I will put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, And make you leave by the way you came.

Isaiah 37:23

Whom have you insulted and blasphemed, at whom have you raised your voice And lifted up your eyes on high? At the Holy One of Israel!

Isaiah 37:17

Incline your ear, Lord, and listen! open your eyes, Lord, and see! Hear all the words Sennacherib has sent to taunt the living God.

Isaiah 37:4

Perhaps the Lord, your God, will hear the words of the commander, whom his lord, the king of Assyria, sent to taunt the living God, and will rebuke him for the words which the Lord, your God, has heard. So lift up a prayer for the remnant that is here.”

Psalm 140:8

Lord, my master, my strong deliverer, you cover my head on the day of armed conflict.

Nehemiah 9:32

Now, our God, great, mighty, and awesome God, who preserves the covenant of mercy, do not discount all the hardship that has befallen us, Our kings, our princes, our priests, our prophets, our ancestors, and your entire people, from the time of the kings of Assyria until this day!

2 Kings 14:26

For the Lord saw the very bitter affliction of Israel, where there was neither bond nor free, no one at all to help Israel.

2 Samuel 16:12

Perhaps the Lord will look upon my affliction and repay me with good for the curses he is uttering this day.”

1 Samuel 1:11

and made this vow: “O Lord of hosts, if you look with pity on the hardship of your servant, if you remember me and do not forget me, if you give your handmaid a male child, I will give him to the Lord all the days of his life. No razor shall ever touch his head.”

Deuteronomy 32:27

Had I not feared the provocation by the enemy, that their foes might misunderstand, And say, “Our own hand won the victory; the Lord had nothing to do with any of it.”

Deuteronomy 26:7

we cried to the Lord, the God of our ancestors, and the Lord heard our cry and saw our affliction, our toil and our oppression.

Exodus 4:31

The people believed, and when they heard that the Lord had observed the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they knelt and bowed down.

Exodus 3:17

so I have decided to lead you up out of your affliction in Egypt into the land of the Canaanites, the Hittites, the Amorites, the Perizzites, the Girgashites, the Hivites and the Jebusites, a land flowing with milk and honey.

Exodus 3:7

But the Lord said: I have witnessed the affliction of my people in Egypt and have heard their cry against their taskmasters, so I know well what they are suffering.

Psalm 69:21

Insult has broken my heart, and I despair; I looked for compassion, but there was none, for comforters, but found none.

Isaiah 51:19

Your misfortunes are double; who is there to grieve with you? Desolation and destruction, famine and sword! Who is there to comfort you?

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, Lord, what has happened to us, pay attention, and see our disgrace: