Lamentations 1:7

New International Version

In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.

Cross References

Psalm 79:4

We are objects of contempt to our neighbors, of scorn and derision to those around us.

Psalm 42:4

These things I remember as I pour out my soul: how I used to go to the house of God under the protection of the Mighty One with shouts of joy and praise among the festive throng.

Luke 16:25

“But Abraham replied, ‘Son, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things, while Lazarus received bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in agony.

Luke 15:17

“When he came to his senses, he said, ‘How many of my father’s hired servants have food to spare, and here I am starving to death!

Micah 4:11

But now many nations are gathered against you. They say, “Let her be defiled, let our eyes gloat over Zion!”

Hosea 2:7

She will chase after her lovers but not catch them; she will look for them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will go back to my husband as at first, for then I was better off than now.’

Lamentations 4:17

Moreover, our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; from our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

Jeremiah 37:7

“This is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: Tell the king of Judah, who sent you to inquire of me, ‘Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to support you, will go back to its own land, to Egypt.

Psalm 77:3

I remembered you, God, and I groaned; I meditated, and my spirit grew faint.

Job 29:2

“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

Isaiah 64:11

Our holy and glorious temple, where our ancestors praised you, has been burned with fire, and all that we treasured lies in ruins.

Jeremiah 48:27

Was not Israel the object of your ridicule? Was she caught among thieves, that you shake your head in scorn whenever you speak of her?

Isaiah 64:10

Your sacred cities have become a wasteland; even Zion is a wasteland, Jerusalem a desolation.

Ezekiel 25:3

Say to them, ‘Hear the word of the Sovereign Lord. This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you said “Aha!” over my sanctuary when it was desecrated and over the land of Israel when it was laid waste and over the people of Judah when they went into exile,

Ezekiel 25:6

For this is what the Sovereign Lord says: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet, rejoicing with all the malice of your heart against the land of Israel,