Lamentations 1:5

New King James Version

Her adversaries have become the master, Her enemies prosper; For the Lord has afflicted her Because of the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

Cross References

Ezekiel 9:9

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great, and the land is full of bloodshed, and the city full of perversity; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’

Jeremiah 39:9

Then Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people who remained in the city and those who defected to him, with the rest of the people who remained.

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies Have opened their mouths against us.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what He purposed; He has fulfilled His word Which He commanded in days of old. He has thrown down and has not pitied, And He has caused an enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is righteous, For I rebelled against His commandment. Hear now, all peoples, And behold my sorrow; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.

Jeremiah 23:14

Also I have seen a horrible thing in the prophets of Jerusalem: They commit adultery and walk in lies; They also strengthen the hands of evildoers, So that no one turns back from his wickedness. All of them are like Sodom to Me, And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 12:7

“I have forsaken My house, I have left My heritage; I have given the dearly beloved of My soul into the hand of her enemies.

Jeremiah 5:29

Shall I not punish them for these things?’ says the Lord. ‘Shall I not avenge Myself on such a nation as this?’

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people have possessed it but a little while; Our adversaries have trodden down Your sanctuary.

Psalm 89:42

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries; You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Psalm 80:6

You have made us a strife to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after my death you will become utterly corrupt, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you. And evil will befall you in the latter days, because you will do evil in the sight of the Lord, to provoke Him to anger through the work of your hands.”

Isaiah 22:5

For it is a day of trouble and treading down and perplexity By the Lord God of hosts In the Valley of Vision— Breaking down the walls And of crying to the mountain.

Jeremiah 10:20

My tent is plundered, And all my cords are broken; My children have gone from me, And they are no more. There is no one to pitch my tent anymore, Or set up my curtains.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has sinned gravely, Therefore she has become vile. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Yes, she sighs and turns away.

Ezekiel 9:10

And as for Me also, My eye will neither spare, nor will I have pity, but I will recompense their deeds on their own head.”

2 Kings 21:15

because they have done evil in My sight, and have provoked Me to anger since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.’ ”

Lamentations 1:16

“For these things I weep; My eye, my eye overflows with water; Because the comforter, who should restore my life, Is far from me. My children are desolate Because the enemy prevailed.”