Lamentations 1:7

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Summary

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

Remembered

Luke 16:25

All her

The adversaries

Bible References

Remembered

Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when +God preserved me;

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

These things I remember and have poured out my soul within me: how I passed along with the multitude, how I went on with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a festive multitude.

I remembered God, and I moaned; I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

And she shall pursue after her lovers, and shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, and shall not find them: and she shall say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then was it better with me than now.

And coming to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and I perish here by famine.

But Abraham said, Child, recollect that thou hast fully received thy good things in thy lifetime, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted here, and thou art in suffering.

All her

For what great nation is there that hath God near to them as Jehovah our God is in everything we call upon him for?

For Jehovah thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of water-brooks, of springs, and of deep waters, that gush forth in the valleys and hills;

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

I will sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard: My well-beloved had a vineyard upon a fruitful hill.

The adversaries

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a mockery and a derision to them that are round about us.

For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that made us wail required mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

And now many nations are assembled against thee, that say, Let her be profaned, and let our eye look upon Zion.