Lamentations 1:17 - Revised Standard Version

¹⁷ Zion stretches out her hands, but there is none to comfort her; the Lord has commanded against Jacob that his neighbors should be his foes; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ Zion spreadeth forth her hands, And there is none to comfort her: The LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, That his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as A menstruous woman among them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ Zion stretches forth her hands, but there is no comforter for her. The Lord has commanded concerning and against Jacob that his neighbors should be his adversaries; Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them [an object of contempt].

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ Zion spreads out her hands; she has no comforter. The LORD commanded Jacob’s enemies to surround him. Jerusalem is just a piece of garbage to them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ PHE. Zion has reached out her hands; there is no one to console her. The Lord has given orders against Jacob; his enemies are all around him. Jerusalem among them is like a woman made unclean by menstruation.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ Phe. Sion hath spread forth her hands, there is none to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded against Jacob, his enemies are round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

Lamentations 1:17 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 8:22

Then Solomon stood before the altar of the Lord in the presence of all the assembly of Israel, and spread forth his hands toward heaven;

1 Kings 8:38

whatever prayer, whatever supplication is made by any man or by all thy people Israel, each knowing the affliction of his own heart and stretching out his hands toward this house;

2 Kings 25:1

And in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came with all his army against Jerusalem, and laid siege to it; and they built siegeworks against it round about.

Ecclesiastes 4:1

Again I saw all the oppressions that are practiced under the sun. And behold, the tears of the oppressed, and they had no one to comfort them! On the side of their oppressors there was power, and there was no one to comfort them.

Isaiah 1:15

When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you; even though you make many prayers, I will not listen; your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 54:11

“O afflicted one, storm-tossed, and not comforted, behold, I will set your stones in antimony, and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Jeremiah 12:9

Is my heritage to me like a speckled bird of prey? Are the birds of prey against her round about? Go, assemble all the wild beasts; bring them to devour.

Jeremiah 15:5

“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem, or who will bemoan you? Who will turn aside to ask about your welfare?

Jeremiah 16:6

Both great and small shall die in this land; they shall not be buried, and no one shall lament for them or cut himself or make himself bald for them.

Jeremiah 34:22

Behold, I will command, says the Lord, and will bring them back to this city; and they will fight against it, and take it, and burn it with fire. I will make the cities of Judah a desolation without inhabitant.”

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in travail, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of the daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before murderers.”

Jeremiah 6:3

Shepherds with their flocks shall come against her; they shall pitch their tents around her, they shall pasture, each in his place.

Jeremiah 8:18

My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me.

Lamentations 1:16

“For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my courage; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed.”

Lamentations 1:19

“I called to my lovers but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.

Lamentations 1:2

She weeps bitterly in the night, tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:21

“Hear how I groan; there is none to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it. Bring thou the day thou hast announced, and let them be as I am.

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 4:15

“Away! Unclean!” men cried at them; “Away! Away! Touch not!” So they became fugitives and wanderers; men said among the nations, “They shall stay with us no longer.”

Ezekiel 36:17

“Son of man, when the house of Israel dwelt in their own land, they defiled it by their ways and their doings; their conduct before me was like the uncleanness of a woman in her impurity.

Hosea 8:8

Israel is swallowed up; already they are among the nations as a useless vessel.