Lamentations 1:5

The Passion Translation

Her foes have the upper hand while her enemies are now at ease. For Yahweh has made Jerusalem suffer for her many, many sins. Her young children are taken into captivity as captives before the oppressor.

Cross References

Ezekiel 9:9

He answered me, “The guilt of the people of Israel and Judah is enormous. The land is full of bloodshed, and Jerusalem full of perverted justice. They say, ‘Yahweh can’t see us! He has abandoned the nation.’

Jeremiah 39:9

Nebuzaradan the field general held captive anyone left behind in Jerusalem and the deserters who had gone over to him and took them all away to distant Babylon.

Lamentations 3:46

“Our enemies are a choir of scoffers and scolders.

Lamentations 2:17

Yahweh has done everything he planned and has carried out his word. As he ordained long ago, he has destroyed without pity. He increased the power of your foes and caused your enemies to rejoice over you.

Lamentations 1:18

“Yahweh is just to judge, for I have rebelled against his word. Listen, everyone, and see my sorrow; my maidens and young men have gone into captivity.

Jeremiah 23:14

And I have seen the prophets of Jerusalem do horrible acts: adultery, persistent lying, and promoting the cause of the wicked, so that no one renounces his evil ways. To me, they are all depraved like Sodom, and the people of Jerusalem are like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 12:7

“I have abandoned my house of Israel and deserted the people I call my own. I have surrendered the beloved of my soul over to her enemies.

Jeremiah 5:29

I, Yahweh, promise to hold them accountable for these things. I will be justified to punish a nation such as this.

Isaiah 63:18

For a short time your holy people possessed a holy place. But now our enemies have invaded and trampled down your sacred sanctuary.

Psalm 89:42

Instead of fighting for me, you take the side of my enemies, even giving them strength to subdue me, and then watched them celebrate their victory!

Psalm 80:6

You’ve made us a thorn in the side of all the neighboring lands, and now they just laugh at us with their mocking scorn.

Isaiah 22:5

The Lord Yahweh, Commander of Angel Armies, has a day in store—a day of tumult, trampling, and terror in the “Valley of Vision.” It is a day when they breach the walls and the people cry out to the mountain of holiness.

Jeremiah 10:20

But my tent has been torn down, and all my cords are severed. I’ll never see my children again, for they have left me. There is no one left to stretch out my tent and no one who can hang my curtains.

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has committed a horrible sin and has become an object of scorn. All who once honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. Shunned, she groans aloud and turns to hide her face in shame.

Ezekiel 9:10

So, I no longer will show them any mercy nor give them one glance of pity. They hereby suffer the consequences of their own behavior.”

Lamentations 1:16

“This is why I weep bitterly, as tears stream down my cheeks. Truly, no one is here to comfort me or revive my life. My children no longer have a future, for the enemy has triumphed.”