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

O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

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

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

I remember God, and am disquieted. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

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

But when he came to himself, he said, How many hired men of my father's have abundance of loaves, but I am perishing with hunger.

But Abraham said, Child, remember that thou in thy lifetime received thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now here he is comforted and thou are in agony.

All her

For what great nation is there that has a god so near to them, as LORD our God is whenever we call upon him?

For LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and springs, flowing forth in valleys and hills;

He shows his word to Jacob, his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Let me sing for my well-beloved a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

The adversaries

All who pass by clap their hands at thee. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are round about us.

For there those who led us captive required of us songs, and those who wasted us, mirth, [saying], Sing for us one of the songs of Zion.

And now many nations are assembled against thee, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eye see [our desire] upon Zion.