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She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

Verse ConceptsCheeksBetrayalNightFeelings Of Rejection By GodWeepingAfflictions, Consolation DuringHanding Over PeopleFriends FailingNo ComfortPeople Mourning Catastrophe

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her within the straits.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleWorryExile Of Judah To BabylonOvertaking

Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the adversary.

Verse ConceptsChastisementLamentingSorrowYoung People SufferingThe Wicked ProsperGod Troubling

And go out from the daughter of Zion doth all her honour, Her princes have been as harts -- They have not found pasture, And they go powerless before a pursuer.

Verse ConceptsWeakness, PhysicalIsrael FleeingNo FoodNo Strength To CopeDeer Etc.Losing HonourDeer

In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin.

Verse ConceptsInfidelity To GodWanderersPeople RememberingHistory Of NationsNo HelpScoffers

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

Verse ConceptsNakednessSin, Effects OfTurning RoundLosing HonourGod's People SinningCatastrophic Events

His hand spread out hath an adversary On all her desirable things, For she hath seen -- Nations have entered her sanctuary, Concerning which Thou didst command, 'They do not come into the assembly to thee.'

Verse ConceptsPagansDesecrationEntering The TempleForeigners In The Holy PlacesTaking Possession

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

Verse ConceptsBarteringInferioritySearchingSeeking FoodSeeking For Concrete Things

Bound hath been the yoke of my transgressions by His hand, They are wrapped together, They have gone up on my neck, He hath caused my power to stumble, The Lord hath given me into hands, I am not able to rise.

Verse ConceptsHeavy Burdens

For these I am weeping, My eye, my eye, is running down with waters, For, far from me hath been a comforter, Refreshing my soul, My sons have been desolate, For mighty hath been an enemy.

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenPeace, Human Destruction OfSympathyRestoring SinnersI Mourn CatastropheNo Comfort

(Pe) Zion spread out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The Lord has issued a decree against Jacob; his neighbors have become his enemies. Jerusalem has become like filthy garbage in their midst.

Verse ConceptsJerusalem, Significance OfSitting In DejectionNo Comfort

The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Verse ConceptsCommands, in OTGod, Righteousness OfRebellion, Against GodYoung People SufferingI Am Suffering

I called for my lovers, they have deceived me; my priests and mine elders have expired in the city, while they sought them food to revive their soul.

Verse ConceptsAliancesTrapSeeking FoodJudgement On Old PeopleDeath Of Office HoldersDeposed PriestsThose Who DeceivedMisleading Children

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

Verse ConceptsGuilt, Human Aspects OfSin, Accepting Forgiveness OfRemorseDistressBowelsI Am SufferingOther References To The HeartKilling IsraelitesOutside The HousePay Attention O God!

They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

Verse ConceptsComfortless LivesThe Day Of JudgementPleasing MenLike The NationsI Am SufferingNo ComfortWhat God Does


“Let all their wickedness come before You;
And deal with them as You have dealt with me
Because of all my transgressions;
For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”

Verse ConceptsSighingLike The NationsFound GuiltyOther References To The HeartWithout Strengthlonliness

How could My Lord, in his anger, enshroud in gloom, the daughter of Zion? have cast from the heavens to the earth, the beauty of Israel? and not have remembered his footstool, in the day of his anger?

Verse ConceptsFootstoolsZion, As A SymbolGod ForgettingLosing HonourThe Coming Day Of God's WrathFeelings Of Alienation

The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.

Verse ConceptsAbandonmentRejecting ThingsRejection Of God, Results OfSanctuaryWallsDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallShouting To The LordFestivals Disregarded

Devised hath Jehovah to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion, He hath stretched out a line, He hath not turned His hand from destroying, And He causeth bulwark and wall to mourn, Together -- they have been weak.

Verse ConceptsPlumb LineWallsGod DestroyingDestruction Of Jerusalem's WallMourning Due To Catastrophe

Sunk into the earth have her gates, He hath destroyed and broken her bars, Her king and her princes are among the nations, There is no law, also her prophets Have not found vision from Jehovah.

Verse ConceptsSpiritual Famine,Poverty, SpiritualVisionsSpiritual DestitutionBreaking SticksDestruction Of JerusalemKings ExiledCity GatesNo VisionsProphecy AbolishedPutting Things Down

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

Verse ConceptsdaughtersDust, Figurative UseBowingHeadsSackcloth And AshesSprinklingClothing OneselfBowing Heads Before GodSitting In DejectionDust On The HeadIndividuals Being Silent

Consumed by tears have been my eyes, Troubled have been my bowels, Poured out to the earth hath been my liver, For the breach of the daughter of my people; In infant and suckling being feeble, In the broad places of the city,

Verse ConceptsAffection, ExpressingIntestinesTearsFaintingEyes HarmedTragedy On The StreetsYoung People SufferingI Am Sufferingknots

Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

Verse ConceptsFutilityOraclesVisionsFalse VisionsSin Made KnownMen DeceivingFalse Prophets DenouncedWhat Sin?Peace And SafetyFake Friends

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?'

Verse ConceptsBeautifulClappingBeauty Of JerusalemNames For JerusalemApplauseShaking The HeadHissingSpectatorsPeople Made Perfect

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.

Verse ConceptsBitingTeethGnashing Of TeethHissingPeople WaitingSpeaking With The Mouth

Their heart cried out to the Lord,
“O wall of the daughter of Zion,
Let your tears run down like a river day and night;
Give yourself no relief,
Let your eyes have no rest.

Verse ConceptsAffliction Day And NightWeepingCrying To GodFigurative WallsEyes Cared ForNo Comfort


See, O Lord, and look!
With whom have You dealt this way?
Should women eat their offspring,
The little ones who were born healthy and beautiful?
Should priest and prophet be killed
In the sanctuary of the Lord?

Verse ConceptsCannibalismInfanticideKilling PriestsProphets KilledWho Is The One?Pay Attention O God!

Lain on the earth in out-places have young and old, My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword, Thou hast slain in a day of Thine anger, Thou hast slaughtered -- Thou hast not pitied.

Verse ConceptsMale And FemaleCalamityGod KillingTragedy On The StreetsGod Killed His PeopleNot SparingKilling IsraelitesMassacres

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Verse ConceptsNo SurvivorsNo EscapeFear Will ComeFestivals DisregardedKilling Sons And Daughters

{Aleph} I am the man, that, through the rod of his wrath, have experience of misery.

Verse ConceptsI Am Suffering

By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

Verse ConceptsSkinBones BrokenHuman SkinDamage To The Body

He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead.

Verse ConceptsState Of The Dead

By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

Verse ConceptsPeople Torn To PiecesBeing Mislead

By him my teeth have been broken with crushed stones, and I am bent low in the dust.

Verse ConceptsDentistryAshes Of HumiliationSand And Gravellungs

I said to myself, The Lord is my heritage; and because of this I will have hope in him.

Verse ConceptsGod, Titles And Names OfGod Is My PortionHope For The Righteous

Let him offer his cheek to the one who hits him; let him have his fill of insults.

Verse ConceptsCheeksThe Smiting Of JesusBatteryAccepting BeatingsBeing Reproved

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

Verse ConceptsCompassionGod Troublinggrieving


You have covered Yourself with anger
And pursued us;
You have slain [without pity] and have not spared.

Verse ConceptsGod KillingGod Killed His PeopleNot SparingAnger And Forgivenesspity


You have covered Yourself with a cloud
So that no prayer can pass through.

Verse ConceptsBeing Yourselfclouds


You have made us scum and refuse
Among the peoples (Gentile nations).

Verse ConceptsdirtUseless People


Panic and pitfall (traps, danger) have come on us,
Devastation and destruction.

Verse ConceptsDestructionPitfalls

My eyes have poured down unceasingly without respite,

Verse ConceptsUnceasingContinual Hardship

They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause.

Verse ConceptsHuntingBirds, Figurative Userelentless

Flowed have waters over my head, I have said, I have been cut off.

Verse ConceptsSwamped

You have heard my cry, "Do not shut your ear to my cry for help, for my relief!"

Verse ConceptsGod Paid Attention To MePay Attention O God!breathing

You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.

Verse ConceptsFear And Worry


O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause [You have guided my way and protected me];
You have rescued and redeemed my life.

Verse ConceptsGod, As RedeemerLawyersGod Vindicatesredeemed


You have heard their reproach, O Lord,
And all their schemes against me.

Verse ConceptsEvil Plans

(Tav) Pay them back what they deserve, O Lord, according to what they have done.

Verse ConceptsGod Will RequiteRepaid For Deeds

How tarnished the gold has become, the finest gold debased! Sacred stones have been scattered at every street corner.

Verse ConceptsPeople As RocksTragedy On The StreetsThings Like Gold

The precious sons of Zion, Who are comparable with fine gold, How have they been reckoned earthen bottles, Work of the hands of a potter.

Verse ConceptsClayPotterThings Like GoldGood PeoplePrice Of PeopleWhat Value Is Man?Worthweight

Even dragons have drawn out the breast, They have suckled their young ones, The daughter of my people is become cruel, Like the ostriches in a wilderness.

Verse ConceptsBreasts, Nursing MothersNursesBirds, Types Of BirdsAnimals SucklingOstrichesStrictnessDeserts Used Figuratively

Cleaved hath the tongue of a suckling unto his palate with thirst, Infants asked bread, a dealer out they have none.

Verse ConceptsBeggarsTongueBeggingSeeking FoodNo FoodYoung People Suffering

Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

Verse ConceptsProperty, HousesColors, ScarletThe HomelessSavourinessPurple ClothesTragedy On The StreetsAshes Of Humiliation

Darker than blackness hath been their visage, They have not been known in out-places, Cleaved hath their skin unto their bone, It hath withered -- it hath been as wood.

Verse ConceptsSkinSticksHuman SkinSootPeople WitheredNot Recognising PeopleBlack Peoplelimitations

Better have been the pierced of a sword Than the pierced of famine, For these flow away, pierced through, Without the increase of the field.

Verse ConceptsWasteNo FoodPersonal GoodKilling Will Happenhunger

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Verse ConceptsCannibalismMotherhoodcookingtenderheartedness

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

Verse ConceptsEntering CitiesNot Believing PeopleNature Of Kings

Turn aside -- unclean,' they called to them, 'Turn aside, turn aside, touch not,' For they fled -- yea, they have wandered, They have said among nations: 'They do not add to sojourn.'

Verse ConceptsRestlessnessPeople PartingWanderersNot TouchingIsrael FleeingLeave Us Alone

The face of Jehovah hath divided them, He doth not add to behold them, The face of priests they have not lifted up, Elders they have not favoured.

Verse Conceptsdispersion, theSin, God's Judgment OnGod Scattering IsraelGod Not SeeingDeposed PriestsLosing Honourelders

They have hunted our steps from going in our broad-places, Near hath been our end, fulfilled our days, For come hath our end.

Verse ConceptsStreetsPeople EndedPeople Following People

Swifter have been our pursuers, Than the eagles of the heavens, On the mountains they have burned after us, In the wilderness they have laid wait for us.

Verse ConceptsPursuing PeopleSkySpeedEaglesAmbushrelentless

Have joy and be glad, O daughter of Edom, living in the land of Uz: the cup will be given to you in your turn, and you will be overcome with wine and your shame will be seen.

Verse ConceptsCup, God's WrathPeople Stripping OffGod Making DrunkRejoicing In Evil

{The Prayer of Jeremiah} Call to remembrance, O LORD, what we have suffered; consider and see our confusion.

Verse ConceptsAfflictions, Prayer DuringBeing ReprovedPay Attention O God!

Orphans we have been -- without a father, our mothers are as widows.

Verse ConceptsBeing ForsakenWidows

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Verse ConceptsSeeking Food

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

Verse ConceptsSlavesNo One Can SaveUnsuitable Rule

We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

Verse ConceptsSeeking FoodRiskingrisk

They have ravished the women in Zion, the maids in the cities of Judah.

Princes by their hand have been hanged, The faces of elders have not been honoured.

Verse ConceptsOld Age, Attitudes ToRespect, For Human BeingsDisrespect For Old Age

The young men have borne the mill, and the youths have stumbled under the wood.

Verse ConceptsHard LaborStaggeringGrinding FoodFirewoodYoung People Suffering

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes have grown dim,

Verse ConceptsEyes HarmedDefective VisionWithout Strength

For the mount of Zion -- that is desolate, Foxes have gone up on it.


Unless You have utterly rejected us
And are exceedingly angry with us.