Lamentations 1:19

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

I called my friends, and they deceived me; my priests and mine eld [or old] men in the city be wasted; for they sought meat to themselves, to comfort their life [or refresh their soul].

Cross References

Jeremiah 2:28

Where be thy gods, which thou madest to thee? Rise they, and deliver thee in the time of thy torment; for after the number of thy cities were thy gods, thou Judah.

Jeremiah 30:14

All thy lovers have forgotten thee, they shall not seek thee; for I have smitten thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastising; for the multitude of thy wickedness, thy sins be made hard.

Jeremiah 4:30

But what shalt thou destroyed, do? When thou shalt clothe thee with red scarlet, when thou shalt be adorned with a golden brooch, and shalt anoint thine eyes with woman’s ointment, thou shalt be arrayed in vain; thy lovers have despised thee, they shall seek thy soul.

Lamentations 1:1

How sitteth alone the city that once was full of people? the lady of folks is made as a widow; the princess of provinces is made under tribute.

Lamentations 1:11

All the people thereof was wailing and seeking bread, they gave all precious things for meat, to strengthen the soul; and the city saith, See thou, Lord, and behold, for I am made vile.

Lamentations 1:2

It weeping wept in the night, and the tears thereof be in the cheeks thereof; there is none of all the dear-worthy thereof, that comforteth it; all the friends thereof forsook it, and be made enemies to it.

Lamentations 2:20

See thou, Lord, and behold, whom thou hast made so bare; therefore whether women shall eat their fruit, their little children at the measure of an hand? for a priest and prophet is slain in the saintuary of the Lord.

Lamentations 4:17

The while we stood yet, our eyes failed to our vain help; when we beheld attentive to a folk, that might not save us.

Lamentations 5:12

Princes were hanged [up] by the hand; they were not ashamed of the faces of eld [or old] men.