Lamentations 1:11 - Revised Standard Version

¹¹ All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. “Look, O Lord, and behold, for I am despised.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ All her people sigh, They seek bread; They have given their pleasant things For meat to relieve the soul: See, O LORD, and consider; For I am become vile.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ All her people groan and sigh, seeking for bread; they have given their desirable and precious things [in exchange] for food to revive their strength and bring back life. See, O Lord, and consider how wretched and lightly esteemed, how vile and abominable, I have become!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.

Common English Bible

¹¹ All her people are groaning, seeking bread. They give up their most precious things for food to survive. “LORD, look and take notice: I am most certainly despised.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ CAPH. All her people are groaning and seeking bread. They have given up whatever was precious in exchange for food, so as to remain alive. See, O Lord, and consider, for I have become vile.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹¹ Caph. All her people sigh, they seek bread: they have given all their precious things for food to relieve the soul. See, O Lord, and consider, for I am become vile.

Lamentations 1:11 Tagairtí Cros

2 Kings 6:25

And there was a great famine in Samaria, as they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for eighty shekels of silver, and the fourth part of a kab of dove's dung for five shekels of silver.

Job 40:4

“Behold, I am of small account; what shall I answer thee? I lay my hand on my mouth.

Psalm 79:4

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those round about us.

Jeremiah 15:19

Therefore thus says the Lord: “If you return, I will restore you, and you shall stand before me. If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless, you shall be as my mouth. They shall turn to you, but you shall not turn to them.

Jeremiah 19:9

And I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and their daughters, and every one shall eat the flesh of his neighbor in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies and those who seek their life afflict them.’

Jeremiah 38:9

“My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they did to Jeremiah the prophet by casting him into the cistern; and he will die there of hunger, for there is no bread left in the city.”

Jeremiah 52:6

On the ninth day of the fourth month the famine was so severe in the city, that there was no food for the people of the land.

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 1:9

Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her doom; therefore her fall is terrible, she has no comforter. “O Lord, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!”

Lamentations 2:11

My eyes are spent with weeping; my soul is in tumult; my heart is poured out in grief because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babes faint in the streets of the city.

Lamentations 2:12

They cry to their mothers, “Where is bread and wine?” as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom.

Lamentations 2:20

Look, O Lord, and see! With whom hast thou dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? Should priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Lamentations 5:1

Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us; behold, and see our disgrace!