| 1 | How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary! | Lam 2:1 Lam 4:1 Isa 14:12 Jer 50:23 Zep 2:15 Rev 18:16 Rev 18:17 |
| 2 | 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. | Lam 1:16 Lam 2:11 Lam 2:18 Lam 2:19 Jb 7:3 Ps 6:6 Ps 77:2-6 Jer 9:1 Jer 9:17-19 Jer 13:17 |
| 3 | Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits. | 2Ki 24:14 2Ki 24:15 2Ki 25:11 2Ki 25:21 2Ch 36:20 2Ch 36:21 Jer 39:9 Jer 52:15 Jer 52:27-30 |
| 4 | The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; All her gates are desolate, her priests do sigh: Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness. | Lam 2:6 Lam 2:7 Lam 5:13 Isa 24:4-6 Jer 14:2 Mic 3:12 |
| 5 | Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary. | Lam 2:17 Lam 3:46 Lv 26:17 Dt 28:43 Dt 28:44 Ps 80:6 Ps 89:42 Isa 63:18 Jer 12:7 Mic 7:8-10 |
| 6 | And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, And they are gone without strength before the pursuer. | 2Ki 19:21 Ps 48:2 Ps 48:3 Isa 1:21 Isa 4:5 Isa 12:6 Zep 3:14-17 |
| 7 | Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations. | Jb 29:2-25 Jb 30:1 Ps 42:4 Ps 77:3 Ps 77:5-9 Hos 2:7 Lk 15:17 Lk 16:25 |
| 8 | Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. | Lam 1:5 Lam 1:20 1Ki 8:46 1Ki 8:47 1Ki 9:7 1Ki 9:9 Isa 59:2-13 Jer 6:28 Ezk 14:13-21 Ezk 22:2-15 |
| 9 | Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself. | Lam 1:17 Jer 2:34 Jer 13:27 Ezk 24:12 Ezk 24:13 |
| 10 | The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thine assembly. | Lam 1:7 Isa 5:13 Isa 5:14 Jer 15:13 Jer 20:5 Jer 52:17-20 |
| 11 | All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject. | Lam 1:19 Lam 2:12 Lam 4:4-10 Dt 28:52-57 2Ki 6:25 Jer 19:9 Jer 38:9 Jer 52:6 Ezk 4:15-17 Ezk 5:16 Ezk 5:17 |
| 12 | Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger. | Lam 2:13 Lam 4:6-11 Dn 9:12 Mt 24:21 Lk 21:22 Lk 21:23 Lk 23:28-31 |
| 13 | From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day. | Lam 2:3 Lam 2:4 Dt 32:21-25 Jb 30:30 Ps 22:14 Ps 31:10 Ps 102:3-5 Nah 1:6 Hab 3:16 2Th 1:8 Heb 12:29 |
| 14 | The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; They are knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. | Dt 28:48 Pr 5:22 Isa 14:25 Isa 47:6 Jer 27:8 Jer 27:12 Jer 28:14 |
| 15 | The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; He hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: The Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah. | 2Ki 9:33 2Ki 24:14-16 2Ki 25:4-7 Ps 119:118 Isa 5:5 Isa 28:18 Jer 50:26 Dn 3:13 Mic 7:10 Mal 4:3 Lk 21:24 Heb 10:29 |
| 16 | For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed. | Lam 1:2 Lam 1:9 Lam 2:11 Lam 2:18 Lam 3:48 Lam 3:49 Ps 119:136 Jer 9:1 Jer 9:10 Jer 13:17 Jer 14:17 Lk 19:41-44 Ro 9:1-3 |
| 17 | Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing. | 1Ki 8:22 1Ki 8:38 Isa 1:15 Jer 4:31 |
| 18 | Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. | Ex 9:27 Dt 32:4 Jg 1:7 Ezr 9:13 Ne 9:33 Ps 119:75 Ps 145:17 Jer 12:1 Dn 9:7 Dn 9:14 Zep 3:5 Ro 2:5 Ro 3:19 Rev 15:3 Rev 15:4 Rev 16:5-7 |
| 19 | I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls. | Lam 1:2 Lam 4:17 Jb 19:13-19 Jer 2:28 Jer 30:14 Jer 37:7-9 |
| 20 | Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. | Lam 1:9 Lam 1:11 Isa 38:14 |
| 21 | 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 proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me. | Lam 1:2 Lam 1:8 Lam 1:11 Lam 1:12 Lam 1:16 Lam 1:22 |
| 22 | Let all their wickedness come before thee; And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. | Ne 4:4 Ne 4:5 Ps 109:14 Ps 109:15 Ps 137:7-9 Jer 10:25 Jer 18:23 Jer 51:35 Lk 23:31 Rev 6:10 |
