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

Who doth make me as in months past, As in the days of God's preserving me?

And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

These I remember, and pour out my soul in me, For I pass over into the booth, I go softly with them unto the house of God, With the voice of singing and confession, The multitude keeping feast!

I remember God, and make a noise, I meditate, and feeble is my spirit. Selah.

And she hath pursued her lovers, And she doth not overtake them, And hath sought them, and doth not find, And she hath said: I go, and I turn back unto My first husband, For -- better to me then than now.

'And having come to himself, he said, How many hirelings of my father have a superabundance of bread, and I here with hunger am perishing!

And Abraham said, Child, remember that thou did receive -- thou -- thy good things in thy life, and Lazarus in like manner the evil things, and now he is comforted, and thou art distressed;

All her

For which is the great nation that hath God near unto it, as Jehovah our God, in all we have called unto him?

'For Jehovah thy God is bringing thee in unto a good land, a land of brooks of waters, of fountains, and of depths coming out in valley and in mountain:

Declaring His words to Jacob, His statutes and His judgments to Israel.

Let me sing, I pray you, for my beloved, A song of my beloved as to his vineyard: My beloved hath a vineyard in a fruitful hill,

The adversaries

Clapped hands at thee have all passing by the way, They have hissed -- and they shake the head At the daughter of Jerusalem: 'Is this the city of which they said: The perfection of beauty, a joy to all the land?'

We have been a reproach to our neighbours, A scorn and a derision to our surrounders.

For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers -- joy: 'Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

And now, gathered against thee have been many nations, who are saying: 'Let her be defiled, and our eyes look on Zion.'