Lamentations 1:17

Tree of Life Version

Zion spreads out her hands— there is no one to comfort her. Adonai has decreed against Jacob. Those surrounding him have become his foes; Jerusalem has become niddah in their eyes.

Cross References

1 Kings 8:22

Then Solomon stood before the altar of Adonai in the presence of all the congregation of Israel, spread out his hands toward heaven,

1 Kings 8:38

when prayer or supplication is made by anyone or by all Your people Israel—each knowing the plague of his own heart—when one spreads his hands toward this House,

2 Kings 25:1

Now it came to pass in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, that King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon and his entire army advanced against Jerusalem, set up camp by it, and built a siege wall all around it.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I looked and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and behold, I saw the tears of the oppressed, but they have no comforter. Power is in the hand of their oppressors, but they had no comforter.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread out your hands, I will hide My eyes from you. When you multiply prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood!”

Isaiah 54:11

Afflicted one, storm-tossed, unconsoled, behold, I set your stones in antimony, lay your foundations with sapphires,

Jeremiah 12:9

Is My inheritance a speckled vulture? Are vultures circling all around her? Go, gather all the wild beasts, bring them for devouring!

Jeremiah 15:5

“Who will have pity on you, Jerusalem? Or who will grieve for you? Or who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small will die in this land; they will not be buried; neither will anyone lament for them, or cut themselves or shave his head for them.

Jeremiah 34:22

Indeed, I will command,” declares Adonai, “and cause them to return to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down with fire; and I will make the cities of Judah a wasteland, with no one living.”

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry like one in labor, the anguish of one giving birth to her first child— the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands saying, “Oy , now to me! For my soul faints before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:3

Shepherds with their flocks are coming against her. All around her they pitch their tents, each pasturing in his own place.

Jeremiah 8:18

My joy is overcome by grief, my heart is faint within me.

Lamentations 1:16

Over these things I weep. My eyes overflow with water. For far from me is a comforter, who might refresh my soul. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”

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 1:2

Bitterly she weeps in the night, her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers, there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her. They have become her enemies!

Lamentations 1:21

They have heard me groaning. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies heard of my distress, They rejoice that You have done it. May You bring about the day that You proclaimed, so they may become like me!

Lamentations 1:8

Jerusalem has greatly sinned— therefore, she has become niddah . All who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans, and turns away.

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness was in her skirts. She did not consider her future. Her demise was astonishing, there was no one to comfort her. “Adonai, see my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”

Lamentations 4:15

“Turn away! Unclean!” They cry to them. “Turn away, turn away! Don’t touch!” So they fled and wandered about. People among the nations say, “They can stay here no longer.”

Ezekiel 36:17

“Son of man, when the house of Israel lived in their own land, they defiled it by their way and by their deeds. Their way before Me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her niddah .

Hosea 8:8

Israel has been swallowed up! Now they are among the nations, like an ornament with no delight in it.