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 could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

I will remember and weep! For I was once walking along with the great throng to the temple of God, shouting and giving thanks along with the crowd as we celebrated the holy festival.

I said, "I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me." (Selah)

Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say, "I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now."

But when he came to his senses he said, 'How many of my father's hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that in your lifetime you received your good things and Lazarus likewise bad things, but now he is comforted here and you are in anguish.

All her

In fact, what other great nation has a god so near to them like the Lord our God whenever we call on him?

For the Lord your God is bringing you to a good land, a land of brooks, springs, and fountains flowing forth in valleys and hills,

He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.

I will sing to my love -- a song to my lover about his vineyard. My love had a vineyard on a fertile hill.

The adversaries

(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem. "Ha! Is this the city they called 'The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!'?"

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

for there our captors ask us to compose songs; those who mock us demand that we be happy, saying: "Sing for us a song about Zion!"

Many nations have now assembled against you. They say, "Jerusalem must be desecrated, so we can gloat over Zion!"