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

I will remember these things; I will pour out my soul in me. When I shall be included in the number; I will go with them to the house of God with voice of joy and praise, dancing in the multitude.

I remembered God and cried out; I complained, and my spirit was 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 shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband, for then it was better with me than now.

And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have abundance of bread, and I perish here with hunger!

But Abraham said, Son, remember that thou in thy lifetime didst receive thy good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things; but now he is comforted here, and thou art tormented.

All her

For what nation is there so great who has God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for?

For the LORD thy God brings thee into a good land, a land of brooks, of waters, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,

He declares his words unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

Now will I sing to my well-beloved a song of my beloved touching his vineyard. My well-beloved had a vineyard in the horn of the sons of oil;

The adversaries

Samech All that passed by clapped their hands over thee and whistled and wagged their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

We are reproached by our neighbours, scorned, and derided by those that are round about us.

when there, those that carried us away captive asked us for the words of the song; with our harps of joy hung upon the willows saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

But now many nations are gathered against thee that say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes see our desire carried out upon Zion.