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 watched over me;

But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock.

When I remember these things, I pour out my soul on me; for I had gone with the multitude; I went with them to the house of God with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping the feast.

I remembered God, and was troubled; I complained, and my spirit fainted. Selah.

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them. She shall seek them, but shall not find them. Then she shall 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 abound in loaves, and I perish with hunger!

But Abraham said, Son, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and likewise Lazarus evil things. But now he is comforted and you are tormented.

All her

For who is a great nation whose God is coming near to them, as Jehovah our God is, in all our calling on Him?

For Jehovah your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills,

He shows His Word to Jacob, His Precepts and His judgments to Israel.

Now I will sing to my Beloved a song of my Beloved concerning His vineyard. My Beloved has a vineyard in a very fruitful hill.

The adversaries

All who pass by clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city which they called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?

We have become a shame to our neighbors, a scorn and mockery to those who are around us.

For there our captors demanded a song from us; and our plunderers demanded gladness, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion.

Now also many nations are gathered against you, who say, Let her be defiled, and let our eyes look on Zion.