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Lamentations 1:2

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She 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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Lamentations 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jerome

LETTER 53.8 · Written before 420.

on Lamentations 1:1-2

As for Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and Daniel, who can fully understand or adequately explain them? The first of them seems to compose not a prophecy but a gospel. The second speaks of a rod of an almond tree and of a seething pot with its face toward the north, and of a leopard that has changed its spots. He also goes four times through the alphabet in different meters.

This site's exposition

How doth the city sit solitary

on Lamentations 1:1-3

The book opens as an alphabet acrostic, one verse to each of the twenty-two Hebrew letters, a form disciplined enough to hold grief without letting it spill past its banks. The city that once sat as a queen among the nations now sits solitary, called a widow though her husband the Lord has not divorced her, and the exile named plainly, Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction and great servitude. The bench reads the language of state and status, princess, tributary, as deliberate: the poem names exactly what has been lost before it names why.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice
She weepeth sore in the night,.... Or, "weeping weeps" (i); two weepings, one for the first, the other for the second temples (k); and while others are taking their sleep and rest; a season fit for mourners, when they can give their grief the greater vent, without any interruption from others; and it being now a night of affliction with her, which occasioned this sore weeping.

The words behind it

18 Hebrew words

Every Hebrew word of this verse in the order it stands, with what it means and the door to its own study. The last column counts the times a word stands in the whole Bible: the rarer the word, the more the places it appears belong together.

  • בָּכ֨וֹbitterly <weep>

    bakhoH1058 →114 times

  • תִבְכֶּ֜הshe weeps

    tivkehH1058 →114 times

  • בַּלַּ֗יְלָהin the night

    balaylahH3915 →233 times

  • וְדִמְעָתָהּ֙and tear[s] her

    vedimatahH1832 →23 times

  • עַ֣ל[are] on

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • לֶֽחֱיָ֔הּcheek her

    lecheyahH3895 →

  • אֵֽין־not

    ʾein-H369 →789 times

  • לָ֥הּ[belongs] to her

    lah

  • מְנַחֵ֖םa comforter

    menachemH5162 →108 times

  • מִכָּל־from all

    mikolH3605 →5413 times

  • אֹהֲבֶ֑יהָlovers her

    ʾohaveihaH157 →

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • רֵעֶ֙יהָ֙friends her

    reeihaH7453 →

  • בָּ֣גְדוּthey have dealt treacherously

    bageduH898 →

  • בָ֔הּwith her

    vah

  • הָ֥יוּthey have become

    hayuH1961 →3559 times

  • לָ֖הּof her

    lah

  • לְאֹיְבִֽים׃ ס<into> enemies

    leoyevimH341 →282 times

A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.

Related verses

18 in all, six open

The number beside each verse is how many compiled reference works tie it to this one. The strongest six stand open.

Ecclesiastes 4:1Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.6 worksPsalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.5 worksJeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.5 worksJeremiah 4:30And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.5 worksLamentations 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.5 worksMicah 7:5Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Lamentations 1:19I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.4 worksJeremiah 9:1Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.3 worksLamentations 1:21People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.3 worksEzekiel 23:22–25Therefore, Oholibah, this is what the Lord GOD says: ‘I will incite your lovers against you, those from whom you turned away in disgust. And I will bring them against you from every side—3 worksPsalms 77:2–6In the day of trouble I sought the Lord; through the night my outstretched hands did not grow weary; my soul refused to be comforted.3 worksJob 19:13–14He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.3 worksJeremiah 13:17But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.3 worksPsalms 31:11Among all my enemies I am a disgrace, and among my neighbors even more. I am dreaded by my friends— they flee when they see me on the street.3 worksLamentations 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!3 worksJeremiah 22:20–22Go up to Lebanon and cry out; raise your voice in Bashan; cry out from Abarim, for all your lovers have been crushed.3 worksJeremiah 38:22All the women who remain in the palace of the king of Judah will be brought out to the officials of the king of Babylon, and those women will say: ‘They misled you and overcame you—those trusted friends of yours. Your feet sank into the mire, and they deserted you.’3 worksLamentations 2:18The hearts of the people cry 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, and your eyes no rest.3 works

The walk

8 stops

Each card is a verse this one points to, and under it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it.

  • Through

    Micah 7:5

    Do not rely on a friend; do not trust in a companion. Seal the doors of your mouth from her who lies in your arms.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 9:4

      “Let everyone guard against his neighbor; do not trust any brother, for every brother deals craftily, and every friend spreads slander.

    • Psalms 118:8–9

      It is better to take refuge in the LORD than to trust in man.

    • Matthew 10:16

      Behold, I am sending you out like sheep among wolves; therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves.

    • Job 6:14–15

      A despairing man should have the kindness of his friend, even if he forsakes the fear of the Almighty.

    • Judges 16:5–20

      The lords of the Philistines went to her and said, “Entice him and find out the source of his great strength and how we can overpower him to tie him up and subdue him.…

  • Through

    Jeremiah 9:1

    Oh, that my head were a spring of water, and my eyes a fountain of tears! I would weep day and night over the slain daughter of my people.

    it leads to

    • Jeremiah 13:17

      But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

    • Isaiah 22:4

      Therefore I said, “Turn away from me, let me weep bitterly! Do not try to console me over the destruction of the daughter of my people.”

  • Through

    Psalms 6:6

    I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

    it leads to

    • Psalms 42:3

      My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”

Where this verse is studied

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About Lamentations

People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Lamentations: the study guide →Read Lamentations 1 →

This page draws on Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Jerome, LETTER 53.8; John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763) and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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