The first of five poems over the fallen city, and an alphabetic acrostic, twenty-two stanzas, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, grief ordered from aleph to tav.

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The first of five poems over the fallen city, and an alphabetic acrostic, twenty-two stanzas, one for each letter of the Hebrew alphabet, grief ordered from aleph to tav. 'How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!' She that was great among the nations is become a widow, a forced laborer; she weeps sore in the night and her tears are on her cheeks, with none to comfort her among all her lovers. Judah's roads mourn because none come to the feasts. Halfway through, the city herself speaks and appeals to passers-by: 'Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?' (1:12), and then confesses, 'Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment.'

Drawn from Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory, Matthew Henry, Complete Commentary, John Wesley, Notes on the Old Testament and John Calvin, Commentaries.

Context

Poetry · Jeremiah — Lamentations overview

A. 1–11 How Doth the City Sit Solitary
B. 12–22 Is It Nothing to You, All Ye That Pass By?

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Lamentations 18 verses
- Lamentations 1:2She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
- Lamentations 1:7In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.
- Lamentations 1:8Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
- Lamentations 1:9Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!
- Lamentations 1:11All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
- Lamentations 1:16For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
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Lamentations 25 verses
- Lamentations 2:9Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.
- Lamentations 2:11My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
- Lamentations 2:12They cry out to their mothers: “Where is the grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.
- Lamentations 2:15All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
- Lamentations 2:20Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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Deuteronomy 282 verses
- Deuteronomy 28:48you will serve your enemies the LORD will send against you in famine, thirst, nakedness, and destitution. He will place an iron yoke on your neck until He has destroyed you.
- Deuteronomy 28:64Then the LORD will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will worship other gods, gods of wood and stone, which neither you nor your fathers have known.
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Deuteronomy 322 verses
- Deuteronomy 32:25Outside, the sword will take their children, and inside, terror will strike the young man and the young woman, the infant and the gray-haired man.
- Deuteronomy 32:29If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.
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Isaiah 472 verses
- Isaiah 47:6I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.
- Isaiah 47:7You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.
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Psalms 1192 verses
- Psalms 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.
- Psalms 119:136My eyes shed streams of tears because Your law is not obeyed.
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Isaiah 31 verse
- Isaiah 3:26And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.
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1 Kings 41 verse
- 1 Kings 4:21And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.
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Cross-references from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge and OpenBible.info.