Lamentations 1:1-6
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a How lonely sits the city
that was full of people!
How like b a widow has she become,
she who was great among the nations!
She who was c a princess among the provinces
has become d a slave.
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e She weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
f among all her lovers
she has g none to comfort her;
h all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.
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i Judah has gone into exile because of affliction
and hard servitude;
j she dwells now among the nations,
k but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.
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The roads to Zion mourn,
for none come to l the festival;
m all her gates are desolate;
her priests n groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,
and she herself suffers bitterly.
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o Her foes have become the head;
her p enemies prosper,
because q the Lord has afflicted her
r for the multitude of her transgressions;
s her children have gone away,
captives before the foe.
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From the daughter of Zion
all her majesty has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
t that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
before the pursuer.
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Jeremiah 7:34
And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.
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Jeremiah 15:8
I have made their widows more in number than the sand of the seas; I have brought against the mothers of young men a destroyer at noonday; I have made anguish and terror fall upon them suddenly.
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Lamentations 5:16
The crown has fallen from our head; woe to us, for we have sinned!
Ezra 4:20
And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom tribute, custom, and toll were paid.
Ecclesiastes 2:8
I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers, both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the children of man.
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Isaiah 31:8
And the Assyrian shall fall by a sword, not of man; and a sword, not of man, shall devour him; and he shall flee from the sword, and his young men shall be put to forced labor.
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Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
Jeremiah 9:1
Oh that my head were waters, and my eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
Jeremiah 13:17
But if you will not listen, my soul will weep in secret for your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly and run down with tears, because the Lord 's flock has been taken captive.
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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.
Jeremiah 22:22
The wind shall shepherd all your shepherds, and your lovers shall go into captivity; then you will be ashamed and confounded because of all your evil.
Jeremiah 30:14
All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.
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Lamentations 1:9
Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. "O Lord, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!
Lamentations 1:16 - 17
"For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears; for a comforter is far from me, one to revive my spirit; my children are desolate, for the enemy has prevailed."
Lamentations 1:21
They heard my groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. You have brought the day you announced; now let them be as I am.
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Again I saw all the oppressions that are done 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.
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Ezekiel 23:22 - 26
Therefore, O Oholibah, thus says the Lord God : "Behold, I will stir up against you your lovers from whom you turned in disgust, and I will bring them against you from every side:
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Jeremiah 52:27
And the king of Babylon struck them down, and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was taken into exile out of its land.
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Lamentations 2:9
Her gates have sunk into the ground; he has ruined and broken her bars; her king and princes are among the nations; the law is no more, and her prophets find no vision from the Lord.
Deuteronomy 28:64 - 65
And the Lord will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you shall serve other gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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Jeremiah 45:3
You said, 'Woe is me! For the Lord has added sorrow to my pain. I am weary with my groaning, and I find no rest.
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Lamentations 2:6
He has laid waste his booth like a garden, laid in ruins his meeting place; the Lord has made Zion forget festival and Sabbath, and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.
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Jeremiah 14:2
Judah mourns, and her gates languish; her people lament on the ground, and the cry of Jerusalem goes up.
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Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away.
Lamentations 1:11
All her people groan as they search for bread; they trade their treasures for food to revive their strength. "Look, O Lord, and see, for I am despised.
Lamentations 1:21 - 22
They heard my groaning, yet there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it. You have brought the day you announced; now let them be as I am.
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Deuteronomy 28:13
And the Lord will make you the head and not the tail, and you shall only go up and not down, if you obey the commandments of the Lord your God, which I command you today, being careful to do them.
Deuteronomy 28:44
He shall lend to you, and you shall not lend to him. He shall be the head, and you shall be the tail.
Jeremiah 13:21
What will you say when they set as head over you those whom you yourself have taught to be friends to you? Will not pangs take hold of you like those of a woman in labor?
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Jeremiah 12:1
Righteous are you, O Lord, when I complain to you; yet I would plead my case before you. Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all who are treacherous thrive?
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Lamentations 1:12
Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which was brought upon me, which the Lord inflicted on the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations 3:33
For he does not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men.
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Jeremiah 30:14 - 15
All your lovers have forgotten you; they care nothing for you; for I have dealt you the blow of an enemy, the punishment of a merciless foe, because your guilt is great, because your sins are flagrant.
Daniel 9:16
O Lord, according to all your righteous acts, let your anger and your wrath turn away from your city Jerusalem, your holy hill, because for our sins, and for the iniquities of our fathers, Jerusalem and your people have become a byword among all who are around us.
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2 Chronicles 36:17
Therefore he brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who killed their young men with the sword in the house of their sanctuary and had no compassion on young man or virgin, old man or aged. He gave them all into his hand.
2 Chronicles 36:20
He took into exile in Babylon those who had escaped from the sword, and they became servants to him and to his sons until the establishment of the kingdom of Persia.
Jeremiah 52:28 - 30
This is the number of the people whom Nebuchadnezzar carried away captive: in the seventh year, 3,023 Judeans.
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Jeremiah 14:6
The wild donkeys stand on the bare heights; they pant for air like jackals; their eyes fail because there is no vegetation.
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