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 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 would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.

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

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

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!

"But Abraham said, 'Son, remember that you, in your lifetime, received your good things, and Lazarus, in the same way, bad things. But now here he is comforted and you are in anguish.

All her

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

For Yahweh your God brings you into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of springs, and underground water flowing into 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 about his vineyard. My beloved had a vineyard on a very fruitful hill.

The adversaries

All that pass by clap their hands at you. 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 around us.

For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"

Now many nations have assembled against you, that say, "Let her be defiled, and let our eye gloat over Zion."