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

"I wish I could go back to how things were a few months ago; when God used to watch over me,

"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

These things I will recall as I pour out my troubles within me: I used to go with the crowd in a procession to the house of God, accompanied with shouts of joy and thanksgiving.

I remember God, and I groan; I meditate, while my spirit grows faint. Interlude

She will pursue her lovers, but she won't catch up with them. She will seek them, but she won't find them. Then she will say, "I'll go back and return to my first husband, because it was better for me then than now.'

"Then he came to his senses and said, "How many of my father's hired men have more food than they can eat, and here I am starving to death!

"But Abraham said, "My child, remember that during your lifetime you received blessings, while Lazarus received hardships. But now he is being comforted here, while you suffer.

All her

For what great nation has a god so near like the LORD our God whenever we call on him?

because the LORD your God is bringing you to a good land a land with rivers and deep springs flowing to the valleys and hills.

He declares his words to Jacob, his statutes and decrees to Israel.

I will sing for my beloved my love-song concerning his vineyard: "The one I love had a vineyard on a very fertile hill.

The adversaries

Everyone who passes by on the road shake their fists at you. They hiss and shake their heads at cherished Jerusalem: "Is this the city men used to call "The Perfection of Beauty,' and "The Joy of the Entire Earth'"?

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a mockery and a derision to those around us.

for it was there that our captors asked us for songs and our torturers demanded joy from us, "Sing us one of the songs about Zion!"

"Now many nations have gathered against you, saying, "Let her be defiled,' and "Let's look down on Zion.'