Lamentations 1:5

New English Translation

Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the Lord afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy. ו (Vav)

Cross References

2 Kings 21:15

because they have done evil in my sight and have angered me from the time their ancestors left Egypt right up to this very day!’”

Psalm 80:6

You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.

Psalm 89:42

You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious, and all his enemies to rejoice.

Isaiah 22:5

For the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, has planned a day of panic, defeat, and confusion. In the Valley of Vision people shout and cry out to the hill.

Isaiah 63:18

For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.

Jeremiah 10:20

But our tents have been destroyed. The ropes that held them in place have been ripped apart. Our children are gone and are not coming back. There is no survivor to put our tents back up, no one left to hang their tent curtains in place.

Jeremiah 12:7

“I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.

Jeremiah 23:14

But I see the prophets of Jerusalem doing something just as shocking. They are unfaithful to me and continually prophesy lies. So they give encouragement to people who are doing evil, with the result that they do not stop their evildoing. I consider all of them as bad as the people of Sodom, and the citizens of Jerusalem as bad as the people of Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 39:9

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal guard, took captive the rest of the people who were left in the city. He carried them off to Babylon along with the people who had deserted to him.

Jeremiah 5:29

I will certainly punish them for doing such things!” says the Lord. “I will certainly bring retribution on such a nation as this!

Lamentations 1:16

I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one in sight who can comfort me or encourage me. My children are desolated because an enemy has prevailed. פ (Pe)

Lamentations 1:18

The Lord is right to judge me! Yes, I rebelled against his commands. Please listen, all you nations, and look at my suffering! My young women and men have gone into exile. ק (Qof)

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem committed terrible sin; therefore she became an object of scorn. All who admired her have despised her because they have seen her nakedness. She groans aloud and turns away in shame. ט (Tet)

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what he planned; he has fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power. צ (Tsade)

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have gloated over us;

Ezekiel 9:10

But as for me, my eye will not pity them nor will I spare them; I hereby repay them for what they have done.”

Ezekiel 9:9

He said to me, “The sin of the house of Israel and Judah is extremely great; the land is full of murder, and the city is full of corruption, for they say, ‘The Lord has abandoned the land, and the Lord does not see!’

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after I die you will totally corrupt yourselves and turn away from the path I have commanded you to walk. Disaster will confront you in the days to come because you will act wickedly before the Lord, inciting him to anger because of your actions.”