Lamentations 1:1

Tree of Life Version

How lonely sits the city, once so full of people! She who was once great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has become a forced laborer.

Cross References

2 Kings 23:33

Then Pharaoh Necoh imprisoned him at Riblah in the land of Hamath, so he would not reign in Jerusalem. He also imposed on the land a fine of 100 talents of silver and a talent of gold.

2 Kings 23:35

Jehoiakim gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money in keeping with Pharaoh’s command. He exacted the silver and the gold from the people of the land, each according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Necoh.

2 Chronicles 9:26

And he ruled over all the kings from the Euphrates River to the land of the Philistines, and as far as the border of Egypt.

Ezra 4:20

Mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem governing all the Trans-Euphrates, and tribute, taxes, and duty were paid to them.

Nehemiah 5:4

Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

Nehemiah 9:37

Its abundant produce goes to the kings You have set over us due to our sins. They rule over our bodies and over our livestock as they please. We are in great distress!

Psalm 122:4

There the tribes go up, the tribes of Adonai —as a testimony to Israel— to praise the Name of Adonai.

Isaiah 14:12

How you have fallen from heaven, O brightstar, son of the dawn! How you are cut down to the earth, you who made the nations prostrate!

Isaiah 22:2

You were full of noise, a boisterous city, an exultant town? Your dead were not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle.

Isaiah 3:26

Her gates will lament and mourn. Desolate, she will sit on the ground.

Isaiah 49:21

Then you will say in your heart, “Who has borne these for me? Wasn’t I bereaved of my children— barren, an exile and wandering? So who has raised these? Behold, I was left alone— these, where were they?”

Isaiah 50:5

Adonai Elohim has opened My ear, and I was not rebellious, nor did I turn back.

Isaiah 52:2

Shake off the dust and arise! Be enthroned, Jerusalem. Loose the bonds off your neck, captive Daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 52:7

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who announces shalom, who brings good news of happiness, who announces salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Isaiah 54:4

Fear not, for you will not be ashamed. Nor cringe, for you will not be disgraced. For you will forget the shame of your youth, and you will remember the reproach of your widowhood no more.

Jeremiah 31:7

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and I will gather them from the ends of the earth— among them the blind and the lame, the pregnant together with she who is in labor with child. A great throng will return here.

Jeremiah 40:9

Then Gedaliah son of Ahikam son of Shaphan swore to them and to their men, saying: “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Stay in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well for you.

Jeremiah 42:2

and said to the prophet Jeremiah, “Please, let our petition be presented before you, and pray to Adonai your God on our behalf, for all this remnant—for we who are left are but a few out of many, as you are seeing with your own eyes—

Jeremiah 44:2

thus says Adonai-Tzva’ot, the God of Israel: “You have seen all the calamity that I brought on Jerusalem and on all the cities of Judah. Behold, today they are a ruin, and no one lives in them,

Jeremiah 44:6

“Therefore My fury and Mine anger was poured out and blazed in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. So they are waste and a ruin, as it is today.

Jeremiah 50:23

How the hammer of the whole earth has been cut down and smashed! How Babylon has become a horror among the nations!

Jeremiah 9:11

Who is the one wise enough to understand this? To whom has the mouth of Adonai spoken that he may explain it? Why is the land ruined, laid waste like a wilderness, so that no one passes through?”

Lamentations 1:19

I called to my lovers— they deceived me! My kohanim and my elders perished in the city when they sought food to keep themselves alive.

Lamentations 2:1

How my Lord has clouded over the daughter of Zion in His anger! He hurled down the splendor of Israel from heaven to earth. He has not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.

Lamentations 2:10

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground in silence. They threw dust on their heads and girded themselves with sackcloth. The maidens of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 4:1

How dulled is the gold, how tarnished the fine gold. The sacred gems are poured out at the corner of every street.

Lamentations 5:16

The crown has fallen from our head. Oy to us, for we have sinned!

Ezekiel 26:16

Then all the princes of the sea will come down from their thrones. They will cast aside their robes. They will take off their richly woven garments; they will clothe themselves with trembling; they will sit on the ground. They will tremble every moment and be appalled at you.

Ezekiel 26:2

“Son of man, because Tyre has said against Jerusalem, ‘Aha, she is shattered, the gateway of the peoples—she is turned over to me! I will be filled, now that she is laid waste!’

Ezekiel 5:5

Thus says Adonai Elohim: “This is Jerusalem! I have set her in the midst of the nations, with countries all around her.

Leviticus 26:31

I will lay waste your cities and devastate your sanctuaries. I will not smell your soothing aromas.

Leviticus 26:33

I will scatter you among the nations and I will draw out the sword after you. So your land will become a desolation and your cities will become a waste.

Zephaniah 2:15

This is the exultant city, dwelling securely, saying in her heart, ‘It’s me--no one else but me!’ How did she become a ruin, an abode for wild beasts? Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Revelation 18:7

As she has exalted herself and indulged herself in luxury, so give her the same measure of torment and grief! For in her heart she says, ‘I sit as a queen— I am no widow; I shall never see grief.’