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)
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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 2
Tanakh 22 verses
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How hath covered with a cloud The daughter of in His anger! He hath cast down from unto the earth The beauty of , And hath not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.
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The hath swallowed up unsparingly All the habitations of ; He hath thrown down in His wrath The strongholds of the daughter of ; He hath brought them down to the ground; He hath profaned the and the princes thereof.
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Psalm 89:39-40 Lamentations 3:43 Lamentations 2:17 Isaiah 43:28 Psalm 21:9 Isaiah 25:12 Ezekiel 9:10 Lamentations 2:5 Lamentations 2:21 Isaiah 26:5 Zechariah 11:5-6 Ezekiel 5:11 Isaiah 47:6 Ezekiel 7:9 Job 2:3 Ezekiel 7:4 Isaiah 23:9 Jeremiah 21:7 2 Corinthians 10:4 Jeremiah 13:14 Jeremiah 5:10 Ezekiel 8:18 Isaiah 27:11 Micah 5:11-12 Malachi 1:4 Matthew 18:33 - 3 He hath cut off in fierce anger All the horn of ; He hath drawn back His right hand From before the enemy; And He hath burned in like a flaming fire, Which devoureth round about.
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He hath bent His bow like an enemy, Standing with His right hand as an adversary, And hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of He hath poured out His fury like fire.
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Jeremiah 7:20 Isaiah 42:25 Ezekiel 24:25 Lamentations 3:12-13 Jeremiah 21:5 Job 6:4 Jeremiah 30:14 Ezekiel 22:22 Isaiah 63:6 Ezekiel 6:12 Isaiah 63:10 Lamentations 3:3 2 Chronicles 34:25 Ezekiel 5:13 Jeremiah 36:7 Job 16:12-14 Jeremiah 21:12 Lamentations 2:5 2 Chronicles 34:21 Lamentations 4:1 Nahum 1:6 Jeremiah 4:4 Ezekiel 36:18 Nahum 1:2 Isaiah 51:17-20 - 5 The is become as an enemy, He hath swallowed up ; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed his strongholds; And He hath multiplied in the daughter of Mourning and moaning.
- 6 And He hath stripped His , as if it were a garden, He hath destroyed His place of ; The hath caused to be forgotten in Appointed season and , And hath rejected in the indignation of His anger The and the .
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The hath cast off His , He hath abhorred His , He hath given up into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces; They have made a noise in the house of , As in the day of a solemn .
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Psalm 78:59-61 Ezekiel 7:20-22 Psalm 74:3-8 Ezekiel 24:21 Jeremiah 52:13 Acts 6:13-14 Leviticus 26:31 Jeremiah 7:12-14 Ezekiel 7:24 Psalm 72:4-20 Jeremiah 33:3-5 2 Chronicles 36:19 Lamentations 2:5 Isaiah 64:10-11 Jeremiah 32:29 Jeremiah 26:18 Matthew 24:2 Lamentations 2:1 Jeremiah 26:6 Leviticus 26:44 Micah 3:12 Amos 2:5 Jeremiah 39:8 - 8 The hath purposed to destroy The wall of the daughter of ; He hath stretched out the line, He hath not withdrawn His hand from destroying; But He hath made the rampart and wall to mourn, They languish together.
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Her gates are sunk into the ground; He hath destroyed and broken her bars; Her and her princes are among the nations, Instruction is no more; Yea, her prophets find No from .
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Hosea 3:4 2 Chronicles 15:3 Nehemiah 1:3 Ezekiel 7:26 Micah 3:6-7 Jeremiah 51:30 Deuteronomy 28:36 Amos 8:11-12 Psalm 74:9 Jeremiah 52:14 Jeremiah 39:2 2 Kings 24:12-16 Lamentations 4:15 Lamentations 4:20 Jeremiah 39:8 Lamentations 1:3 Ezekiel 17:20 2 Kings 25:7 Ezekiel 12:13 Jeremiah 14:14 Jeremiah 52:8-9 -
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They sit upon the ground, and keep silence, The elders of the daughter of ; They have cast up dust upon their heads, They have girded themselves with sackcloth; The virgins of hang down Their heads to the ground.
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Isaiah 3:26 Job 2:12-13 Isaiah 15:3 Joshua 7:6 Lamentations 3:28 Amos 8:3 Lamentations 1:1 Lamentations 1:4 Isaiah 47:1 Ezekiel 7:18 Isaiah 47:5 Joel 1:8 Ezekiel 27:31 Jeremiah 8:14 Lamentations 5:14 Lamentations 5:12 Lamentations 4:5 Amos 8:13 Isaiah 36:22 Revelation 18:19 2 Samuel 13:19 Lamentations 4:16 Amos 5:13 - 11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, Mine inwards burn, My liver is poured upon the earth, For the breach of the daughter of my people; Because the young children and the sucklings swoon In the broad places of the city.
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They say to their mothers: ‘Where is corn and wine?’ When they swoon as the wounded In the broad places of the city, When their is poured out Into their mothers’ bosom.
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- 13 What shall I take to witness for thee? What shall I liken to thee, O daughter of ? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of ? For thy breach is great like the sea; Who can heal thee?
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Thy prophets have seen visions for thee Of vanity and delusion; And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, To bring back thy captivity; But have prophesied for thee burdens Of vanity and seduction.
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Isaiah 58:1 Jeremiah 5:31 Ezekiel 22:28 Ezekiel 22:25 Jeremiah 2:8 Jeremiah 27:9-10 Jeremiah 23:22 Jeremiah 23:25-29 Jeremiah 27:14-16 Zephaniah 3:4 Jeremiah 29:8-9 2 Peter 2:1-3 Jeremiah 23:11-17 Jeremiah 8:10-11 Ezekiel 13:2-16 Jeremiah 23:36 Jeremiah 6:13-14 Isaiah 9:15-16 Jeremiah 37:19 Jeremiah 23:31-34 Micah 3:5-7 Micah 2:11 Jeremiah 28:15 Jeremiah 14:13-15 Ezekiel 13:22 -
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All that pass by clap Their hands at thee; They hiss and wag their head At the daughter of : ‘Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?’.
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Psalm 48:2 Jeremiah 18:16 Ezekiel 25:6 Psalm 50:2 Jeremiah 19:8 Zephaniah 2:15 Psalm 22:7 Isaiah 37:22 Mark 15:29 Jeremiah 51:37 Matthew 27:39 Psalm 44:14-15 Jeremiah 29:18 2 Chronicles 7:21 1 Kings 9:7-9 2 Kings 19:21 Deuteronomy 29:22-28 Jeremiah 25:18 Micah 6:16 Lamentations 1:8 Lamentations 2:6 Lamentations 2:16 Jeremiah 25:9 Nahum 3:19 Job 27:22-23 Isaiah 64:11 -
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All thine enemies have opened Their mouth wide against thee; They hiss and gnash the teeth; They say: ‘We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; We have found, we have seen it.’
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Psalm 35:21 Lamentations 3:46 Job 16:9-10 Psalm 56:2 Psalm 22:13 Jeremiah 51:34 Psalm 37:12 Psalm 35:16 Psalm 124:3 Psalm 57:3 Zephaniah 2:8-10 Isaiah 49:19 Psalm 109:2 Ezekiel 25:3 Ezekiel 36:3 Psalm 112:10 Ezekiel 25:15 Obadiah 1:12-16 Jeremiah 50:17 Psalm 41:8 Hosea 8:8 Jeremiah 50:7 Ezekiel 25:6 Acts 7:54 - 17 The hath done that which He devised; He hath performed His That He commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down unsparingly; And He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.
- 18 Their cried unto : ‘O wall of the daughter of , Let tears run down like a river Day and night; Give thyself no respite; Let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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Arise, cry out in the night, At the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy like water Before the of ; Lift up thy hands toward Him For the life of thy young children, That faint for hunger At the head of every street.’
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Psalm 62:8 Psalm 142:2 Isaiah 26:9 1 Samuel 1:15 Psalm 119:147-148 Lamentations 2:11-12 Isaiah 51:20 Psalm 42:8 Judges 7:19 Matthew 14:25 1 Samuel 7:6 Job 3:24 Psalm 28:2 Mark 1:35 Mark 13:35 Luke 6:12 Psalm 141:2 Ezekiel 5:16 Psalm 134:2 Psalm 63:4 1 Timothy 2:8 Ezekiel 5:10 Psalm 119:55 Lamentations 4:1-9 Nahum 3:10 -
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See, O , and consider, To whom Thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, The children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the and the be slain In the of ?
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Lamentations 4:10 Jeremiah 19:9 Psalm 78:64 Deuteronomy 9:26 Lamentations 4:13 Exodus 32:11 Isaiah 64:8-12 Jeremiah 14:15-18 Isaiah 9:14-17 Isaiah 63:16-19 Jeremiah 14:20-21 Lamentations 4:16 Leviticus 26:29 Ezekiel 9:5-6 Ezekiel 5:10 Lamentations 1:19 2 Kings 6:28-29 Jeremiah 23:11-15 Deuteronomy 28:53-57 Jeremiah 5:31 -
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The youth and the old man lie On the ground in the streets; My virgins and my young men Are fallen by the sword; Thou hast slain them in the day of Thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered unsparingly.
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2 Chronicles 36:17 Lamentations 3:43 Zechariah 11:6 Jeremiah 13:14 Lamentations 2:17 Lamentations 2:2 Psalm 78:62-63 Isaiah 27:11 Ezekiel 9:10 Jeremiah 18:21 Amos 4:10 Joshua 6:21 Lamentations 1:18 Ezekiel 8:18 Jeremiah 11:22 Jeremiah 6:11 1 Samuel 15:3 Jeremiah 51:22 Lamentations 1:15 Jeremiah 21:7 Ezekiel 7:4 Jeremiah 9:21 Ezekiel 9:5-6 Ezekiel 7:9 Esther 3:13 Ezekiel 5:11 Deuteronomy 28:50 - 22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn , My terrors on every side, And there was none in the day of Yahweh’S anger That escaped or remained; Those that I have dandled and brought up Hath mine enemy consumed.’