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Lamentations 1:22

in Lamentations 1

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.

BSB

The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

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.

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This verse in Lamentations 1

Commentary

4 notes on this verse

A commentator

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible · Written before 1832.

Let all their wickedness come before thee - That is, Thou wilt call their crimes also into remembrance; and thou wilt do unto them by siege, sword, famine, and captivity, what thou hast done to me. Though thy judgments, because of thy long-suffering, are slow; yet, because of thy righteousness, they are sure. For my sighs are many - My desolations continue; and my heart is faint - my political and physical strength almost totally destroyed. Imprecations in the sacred writings are generally to be understood as declarative of the evils they indicate; or, that such evils will take place.

This site's exposition

Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress

on Lamentations 1:20-22

The chapter closes as it began, addressed to the Lord directly, behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled, the sword bereaving abroad and death waiting at home. The prayer turns imprecatory in its last lines, asking the Lord to bring upon her enemies the day he has already brought upon her, do unto them as thou hast done unto me, a pattern the bench reads as the honest cry of a sufferer laid before the Judge rather than executed by the sufferer's own hand. The last word is the poem's own, my heart is faint, closing the acrostic on the note it opened, affliction still spoken directly to the God who sent it.

The record, by era

The Puritans and the Awakening1 voice

A commentator

Matthew Henry

1662–1714

Commentary on the Whole Bible (1710)

on Lamentations 1:21-22

Note, Our prayers may and must agree with God's word; and what day God has here called we are to call for, and no other. And though we are bound in charity to forgive our enemies, and to pray for them, yet we may in faith pray for the accomplishment of that which God has spoken against his and his church's enemies, that will not repent to give him glory.
The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Such prayers against foes are lawful, if the foe be an enemy of God, and if our concern be not for our own personal feeling, but for the glory of God and the welfare of His people. come before thee--so Re 16:19, "Babylon came in remembrance before God" (compare Ps 109:15).

The words behind it

17 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.

  • תָּבֹ֨אmay it come

    tavo'H935 →2568 times

  • כָל־all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • רָעָתָ֤םwickedness their

    raatamH7451 →662 times

  • לְפָנֶ֙יךָ֙<to> before you

    lefaneikhaH6440 →2123 times

  • וְעוֹלֵ֣לand deal severely

    veolelH5953 →20 times

  • לָ֔מוֹto them

    lamo

  • כַּאֲשֶׁ֥רjust as

    kaasherH834 →5497 times

  • עוֹלַ֛לְתָּyou have dealt severely

    olaltaH5953 →20 times

  • לִ֖יto me

    li

  • עַ֣לon

    ʾalH5921 →5755 times

  • כָּל־all

    kol-H3605 →5413 times

  • פְּשָׁעָ֑יtransgressions my

    peshaaiH6588 →93 times

  • כִּֽי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • רַבּ֥וֹת[are] many

    rabotH7227 →454 times

  • אַנְחֹתַ֖יgroaning<s> my

    ʾanchotaiH585 →

  • וְלִבִּ֥יand heart my

    velibiH3820 →595 times

  • דַוָּֽי׃ פ[is] faint

    davaiH1742 →

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

Related verses

16 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.

Jeremiah 8:18My sorrow is beyond healing; my heart is faint within me.5 worksRevelation 6:10And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”5 worksPsalms 109:14–15May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the LORD, and the sin of his mother never be blotted out.4 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.4 worksNehemiah 4:4–5Hear us, O God, for we are despised. Turn their scorn back upon their own heads, and let them be taken as plunder to a land of captivity.3 worksJeremiah 10:25Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished him off; they have devastated his homeland.2 works
The other 10 cross-references, with their words ▾
Luke 23:31For if men do these things while the tree is green, what will happen when it is dry?”2 worksEphesians 3:13So I ask you not to be discouraged because of my sufferings for you, which are your glory.2 worksLamentations 5:17Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—2 worksJeremiah 18:23But You, O LORD, know all their deadly plots against me. Do not wipe out their guilt or blot out their sin from Your sight. Let them be overthrown before You; deal with them in the time of Your anger.2 worksJeremiah 51:35May the violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon,” says the dweller of Zion. “May my blood be on the dwellers of Chaldea,” says Jerusalem.2 worksPsalms 137:7–9Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!”2 worksIsaiah 13:7Therefore all hands will fall limp, and every man’s heart will melt.2 worksLamentations 1:13He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.2 worksIsaiah 21:2A dire vision is declared to me: “The traitor still betrays, and the destroyer still destroys. Go up, O Elam! Lay siege, O Media! I will put an end to all her groaning.”2 worksJeremiah 45:3You have said, ‘Woe is me because the LORD has added sorrow to my pain! I am worn out with groaning and have found no rest.’”2 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

    Revelation 6:10

    And they cried out in a loud voice, “How long, O Lord, holy and true, until You avenge our blood and judge those who dwell upon the earth?”

    it leads to

    • Revelation 19:2

      For His judgments are true and just. He has judged the great prostitute who corrupted the earth with her immorality. He has avenged the blood of His servants that was poured out by her…

    • Psalms 9:12

      For the Avenger of bloodshed remembers; He does not ignore the cry of the afflicted.

    • Revelation 11:18

      The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your…

    • Romans 12:19

      Do not avenge yourselves, beloved, but leave room for God’s wrath. For it is written: “Vengeance is Mine; I will repay, says the Lord.”

    • 2 Thessalonians 1:6–8

      After all, it is only right for God to repay with affliction those who afflict you,

  • Through

    Jeremiah 10:25

    Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, and on the families that do not call on Your name. For they have devoured Jacob; they have consumed him and finished…

    it leads to

    • Psalms 79:6–7

      Pour out Your wrath on the nations that do not acknowledge You, on the kingdoms that refuse to call on Your name,

    • Jeremiah 8:16

      The snorting of enemy horses is heard from Dan. At the sound of the neighing of mighty steeds, the whole land quakes. They come to devour the land and everything in it, the city…

    • Psalms 14:4

      Will the workers of iniquity never learn? They devour my people like bread; they refuse to call upon the LORD.

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 Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible; John Calvin, Commentary on Jeremiah and Lamentations and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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