Lamentations 1:5

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

Her foes have become the head, her enemies prosper, because the Lord has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.

Cross References

2 Kings 21:15

because they have done what is evil in my sight and have provoked me to anger, since the day their fathers came out of Egypt, even to this day.”

Psalm 80:6

Thou dost make us the scorn of our neighbors; and our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 89:42

Thou hast exalted the right hand of his foes; thou hast made all his enemies rejoice.

Isaiah 22:5

For the Lord God of hosts has a day of tumult and trampling and confusion in the valley of vision, a battering down of walls and a shouting to the mountains.

Isaiah 63:18

Thy holy people possessed thy sanctuary a little while; our adversaries have trodden it down.

Jeremiah 10:20

My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken; my children have gone from me, and they are not; there is no one to spread my tent again, and to set up my curtains.

Jeremiah 12:7

“I have forsaken my house, I have abandoned my heritage; I have given the beloved of my soul into the hands of her enemies.

Jeremiah 23:14

But in the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing: they commit adultery and walk in lies; they strengthen the hands of evildoers, so that no one turns from his wickedness; all of them have become like Sodom to me, and its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”

Jeremiah 39:9

Then Nebuzaradan, the captain of the guard, carried into exile to Babylon the rest of the people who were left in the city, those who had deserted to him, and the people who remained.

Jeremiah 5:29

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord, and shall I not avenge myself on a nation such as this?”

Lamentations 1:16

“For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is in the right, for I have rebelled against his word; but hear, all you peoples, and behold my suffering; my maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem sinned grievously, therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; yea, she herself groans, and turns her face away.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what he purposed, has carried out his threat; as he ordained long ago, he has demolished without pity; he has made the enemy rejoice over you, and exalted the might of your foes.

Lamentations 3:46

“All our enemies rail against us;

Ezekiel 9:10

As for me, my eye will not spare, nor will I have pity, but I will requite their deeds upon their heads.”

Ezekiel 9:9

Then he said to me, “The guilt of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great; the land is full of blood, and the city full of injustice; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see.’

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after my death you will surely act corruptly, and turn aside from the way which I have commanded you; and in the days to come evil will befall you, because you will do what is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking him to anger through the work of your hands.”