These words, which I am ordering you today, are to be on your heart; and you are to teach them carefully to your children. You are to talk about them when you sit at home, when you are traveling on the road, when you lie down and when you get up. (Deuteronomy 6:6-7)
BIBLES
King James Version (1769 Pure Cambridge Edition) and JPS Tanakh (1917).
Both texts are in the public domain. Some original names have been restored
Lamentations 1
Tanakh 22 verses
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HOW DOTH the city sit solitary, That was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, And princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary!
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1 Kings 4:21 Ezra 4:20 Isaiah 3:26 2 Kings 23:35 Revelation 18:16-17 Lamentations 5:16 Isaiah 22:2 Isaiah 54:4 Revelation 18:7 Ezekiel 26:16 Lamentations 2:1 Jeremiah 40:9 Nehemiah 9:37 Isaiah 52:7 Jeremiah 9:11 Psalm 122:4 Lamentations 2:10 Zephaniah 2:15 2 Kings 23:33 Isaiah 14:12 Lamentations 4:1 Isaiah 47:1-15 Isaiah 52:2 Zechariah 8:4-5 Jeremiah 50:23 Nehemiah 5:4 Isaiah 50:5 2 Chronicles 9:26 -
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She weepeth sore in the night, And her tears are on her cheeks; She hath none to comfort her Among all her lovers; All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, They are become her enemies.
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Psalm 6:6 Micah 7:5 Lamentations 1:9 Ezekiel 23:22-25 Jeremiah 22:20-22 Job 19:13-14 Jeremiah 30:14 Jeremiah 9:1 Jeremiah 13:17 Lamentations 1:16-17 Lamentations 1:19 Psalm 77:2-6 Psalm 31:11 Jeremiah 4:30 Lamentations 1:21 Isaiah 51:18-19 Jeremiah 3:1 Revelation 17:13 Ezekiel 16:37 Job 6:15 Revelation 17:16 Job 7:3 Lamentations 2:11 Hosea 2:7 Proverbs 19:7 Lamentations 2:18-19 Jeremiah 9:17-19 - 3 is gone into exile because of affliction, And because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, She findeth no rest; All her pursuers overtook her Within the straits.
- 4 The ways of do mourn, Because none come to the solemn ; All her gates are desolate, Her priests sigh; Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is in bitterness.
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Her adversaries are become the head, Her enemies are at ease; For hath afflicted her For the multitude of her transgressions; Her young children are gone into captivity Before the adversary.
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Ezekiel 9:9 Jeremiah 30:14-15 Psalm 90:7-8 Jeremiah 39:9 Ezekiel 8:17-18 Ezekiel 22:24-31 Lamentations 2:17 Jeremiah 12:7 Jeremiah 5:3-9 2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Jeremiah 5:29 Deuteronomy 31:16-18 Psalm 80:6 Zephaniah 3:1-8 Leviticus 26:15-46 Deuteronomy 31:29 Nehemiah 9:33-34 Jeremiah 23:14 Lamentations 3:39-43 Deuteronomy 4:25-27 Deuteronomy 32:15-27 Jeremiah 44:21-22 Micah 3:9-12 Lamentations 1:18 Deuteronomy 28:15-68 Daniel 9:7-16 Lamentations 3:46 Isaiah 63:18 Psalm 89:42 Jeremiah 52:27-30 Micah 7:8-10 Deuteronomy 29:18-28 -
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And gone is from the daughter of All her splendour; Her princes are become like harts That find no pasture, And they are gone without strength Before the pursuer.
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Ezekiel 24:25 Deuteronomy 28:25 2 Kings 19:21 Jeremiah 29:4 Jeremiah 48:41 Psalm 44:9-11 Psalm 132:12-13 Psalm 96:9 Psalm 48:2-3 Isaiah 1:21 Isaiah 12:6 Lamentations 2:1-7 Ezekiel 11:22-23 Psalm 50:2 Isaiah 4:5 Jeremiah 13:18 Jeremiah 51:30-32 Jeremiah 52:7-8 Leviticus 26:36-37 Deuteronomy 32:30 Jeremiah 47:3 Jeremiah 14:5-6 2 Samuel 4:11-12 Jeremiah 52:13 Ezekiel 24:21 Jeremiah 52:11 Ezekiel 7:20-22 Joshua 7:12-13 Zephaniah 3:14-17 - 7 remembereth In the days of her affliction and of her anguish All her treasures that she had From the days of old; Now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary, And none doth help her, The adversaries have seen her, They have mocked at her desolations.
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hath grievously sinned, Therefore she is become as one unclean; All that honoured her despise her, Because they have seen her nakedness; She herself also sigheth, And turneth backward.
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Isaiah 59:2-13 Lamentations 1:20-22 Lamentations 1:4-5 Jeremiah 13:22 Lamentations 1:11 Jeremiah 13:26 Lamentations 5:12-16 Ezekiel 14:13-21 1 Kings 8:46-47 1 Samuel 2:30 1 Kings 9:9 Revelation 3:18 Ezekiel 22:2-15 Lamentations 4:21 Jeremiah 15:4 Isaiah 47:3 Ezekiel 16:37-39 Lamentations 4:15-16 Ezekiel 23:46 1 Kings 9:7 Jeremiah 24:9 Jeremiah 34:17 Ezekiel 23:29 Jeremiah 6:28 Jeremiah 4:31 Hosea 2:10 Hosea 2:3 Lamentations 2:10 -
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Her filthiness was in her skirts, She was not mindful of her end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully, She hath no comforter. ‘Behold, O , my affliction, For the enemy hath magnified himself.’
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Isaiah 47:7 Deuteronomy 32:29 Psalm 25:18 Ecclesiastes 4:1 Lamentations 1:17 Jeremiah 2:34 Isaiah 3:8 Zephaniah 2:10 Jeremiah 48:26 Psalm 119:153 2 Thessalonians 2:4-8 Jeremiah 13:17-18 Jeremiah 16:7 2 Samuel 16:12 1 Samuel 1:11 Isaiah 37:29 Deuteronomy 26:7 2 Kings 14:26 Exodus 4:31 John 11:19 Nehemiah 9:32 Isaiah 54:11 Psalm 140:8 Jeremiah 5:31 Isaiah 40:2 Lamentations 1:21 Isaiah 37:4 Isaiah 37:17 Daniel 9:17-19 Isaiah 37:23 Deuteronomy 32:27 Lamentations 4:1 Jeremiah 50:29 Lamentations 1:1-2 Lamentations 2:13 Exodus 3:17 Jeremiah 13:27 Hosea 2:14 1 Peter 4:17 Ezekiel 24:12-13 Psalm 74:22-23 Exodus 3:7 Psalm 74:8-9 - 10 The adversary hath spread out his hand Upon all her treasures; For she hath seen that the heathen Are entered into her , Concerning whom Thou didst command That they should not enter into Thy congregation.
- 11 All her people sigh, They seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food To refresh the . ‘See, O , and behold, How abject I am become.’
- 12 Let it not come unto you, all ye that pass by! Behold, and see If there be any pain like unto my pain, Which is done unto me, Wherewith hath afflicted me In the day of His fierce anger.
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From on high hath He sent fire Into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, He hath turned me back; He hath made me desolate And faint all the day.
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Job 30:30 Habakkuk 3:16 Job 19:6 Psalm 22:14 Ezekiel 17:20 Ezekiel 12:13 Psalm 66:11 Lamentations 2:3-4 Deuteronomy 28:65 Deuteronomy 32:21-25 Psalm 35:4 Jeremiah 44:6 Lamentations 4:17-20 Job 18:8 Lamentations 5:17 Psalm 31:10 Isaiah 42:17 Jeremiah 4:19-29 Hosea 7:12 Psalm 102:3-5 Hebrews 12:29 2 Thessalonians 1:8 Lamentations 1:22 Nahum 1:6 Ezekiel 32:3 Psalm 129:5 Psalm 70:2-3 - 14 The yoke of my transgressions is impressed by His hand; They are knit together, They are come up upon my neck; He hath made my strength to fail; The hath delivered me into their hands, Against whom I am not able to stand.
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The hath set at nought All my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn against me To crush my young men; The hath trodden as in a winepress The virgin the daughter of .’
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Isaiah 28:18 Isaiah 63:3 Malachi 4:3 Revelation 14:19-20 Luke 21:24 Micah 7:10 Jeremiah 51:34 Jeremiah 50:26 Daniel 3:13 Isaiah 41:2 Revelation 19:15 Judges 10:8 Isaiah 5:5 Hebrews 10:29 Jeremiah 37:10 Jeremiah 14:17 Jeremiah 18:21 Deuteronomy 28:33 Lamentations 3:34 2 Kings 25:4-7 Psalm 119:118 2 Kings 24:14-16 2 Kings 9:33 -
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For these things I weep; Mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter is far from me, Even he that should refresh my ; My children are desolate, Because the enemy hath prevailed.’
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Lamentations 1:2 Lamentations 2:18 Jeremiah 13:17 Lamentations 3:48-49 Jeremiah 14:17 Lamentations 2:11 Lamentations 1:9 Hosea 9:12 Lamentations 2:20-22 Lamentations 1:5-6 Romans 9:1-3 Jeremiah 9:21 Jeremiah 9:1 Luke 19:41-44 Ecclesiastes 4:1 Psalm 69:20 Psalm 119:136 Lamentations 4:2-10 Jeremiah 9:10 -
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spreadeth forth her hands; There is none to comfort her; The hath commanded concerning , That they that are round about him should be his adversaries; is among them As one unclean.
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Jeremiah 4:31 Isaiah 1:15 Lamentations 1:9 2 Kings 24:2-4 Lamentations 1:16 Lamentations 2:17-22 Leviticus 15:19-27 Lamentations 1:21 Jeremiah 6:3 Jeremiah 34:22 Luke 19:43-44 Jeremiah 16:6 1 Kings 8:22 Ezekiel 7:23-24 Lamentations 1:19 Lamentations 4:15 Ezekiel 36:17 Jeremiah 21:4-5 Lamentations 2:1-8 Hosea 8:8 1 Kings 8:38 Lamentations 1:2 2 Kings 25:1 -
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The is righteous; For I have rebelled against His ; Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, And behold my pain: My virgins and my young men Are gone into captivity.
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1 Samuel 12:14-15 Lamentations 1:12 Jeremiah 12:1 Psalm 119:75 1 Samuel 15:23 Jeremiah 49:12 Ezekiel 14:22-23 Lamentations 1:5-6 Daniel 9:9-16 Revelation 16:5-7 Deuteronomy 32:4 Nehemiah 1:6-8 1 Kings 9:8-9 Jeremiah 22:8-9 1 Kings 13:21 Lamentations 3:42 Ezra 9:13 Revelation 15:3-4 Romans 3:19 Deuteronomy 28:32-41 Nehemiah 9:26 Daniel 9:7 Psalm 145:17 Exodus 9:27 Romans 2:5 Psalm 107:11 Jeremiah 25:28-29 Judges 1:7 Deuteronomy 29:22-28 Nehemiah 9:33 Zephaniah 3:5 - 19 I called for my lovers, But they deceived me; My priests and mine elders Perished in the city, While they sought them food To refresh their souls.
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Behold, O , for I am in distress, Mine inwards burn; My is turned within me, For I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword bereaveth, At home there is the like of death.
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Lamentations 2:11 Ezekiel 7:15 Deuteronomy 32:25 Isaiah 16:11 Job 30:27 Jeremiah 4:19 Jeremiah 14:18 Jeremiah 31:20 Jeremiah 3:13 Lamentations 1:11 Lamentations 1:18 Hosea 11:8 Jeremiah 2:35 Habakkuk 3:16 Luke 15:18-19 Isaiah 38:14 Psalm 51:3-4 Leviticus 26:40-42 1 Kings 8:47-50 Lamentations 1:9 Proverbs 28:13 Jeremiah 48:36 Luke 18:13-14 Lamentations 4:9-10 Psalm 22:14 Jeremiah 9:21-22 Job 33:27 -
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They have heard that I sigh, There is none to comfort me; All mine enemies have heard of my trouble, and are glad, For Thou hast done it; Thou wilt bring the day that Thou hast proclaimed, And they shall be like unto me.
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Lamentations 1:8 Lamentations 1:16 Jeremiah 50:11 Lamentations 1:22 Lamentations 2:15 Psalm 35:15 Lamentations 1:2 Lamentations 1:4 Lamentations 4:21-22 Micah 7:9-10 Isaiah 51:22-23 Jeremiah 25:17-29 Jeremiah 51:24 Ezekiel 26:2 Jeremiah 51:49 Isaiah 47:1-15 Psalm 37:13 Ezekiel 25:1-17 Jeremiah 50:31 Obadiah 1:12-13 Habakkuk 2:15-17 Jeremiah 48:27 Psalm 137:7-9 Jeremiah 50:29 Jeremiah 46:1-28 Amos 1:1-15 Deuteronomy 32:41-43 Psalm 38:16 Jeremiah 50:15 Lamentations 1:11-12 Revelation 18:6 Joel 3:14 Isaiah 13:1-14 Jeremiah 30:16 - 22 Let all their wickedness come before Thee; And do unto them, As Thou hast done unto me For all my transgressions; For my sighs are many And my is faint.’