Lamentations 1:5
in Lamentations 1Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.
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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾
ASV
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.
KJV
Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
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This verse in Lamentations 1
Commentary
2 notes on this verseA commentator
Albert Barnes1798–1870
Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)
Are the chief ... prosper - Or, “are become the head”... are at rest. Judaea is so entirely crushed that her enemies did not need to take precautions against resistance on her part. Children - i. e. “young children,” who are driven before the enemy (literally the adversary), not as a flock of lambs which follow the shepherd, but for sale as slaves.
This site's exposition
The ways of Zion do mourn
on Lamentations 1:4-6
The roads to Jerusalem are personified in grief, the ways of Zion mourning because no pilgrims travel them to the solemn feasts, the pilgrim festivals of the Law now attended by no one at all. Priests sigh and virgins are afflicted, the temple's own personnel and its youngest witnesses named together, the roads standing as silent evidence of a calendar broken. Her princes, once the strength of the nation, are now like harts that find no pasture, fugitives too weak to outrun the pursuer, a figure the commentators take from the hunted deer of the wilderness rather than the palace.
The words behind it
16 Hebrew wordsEvery 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.
| Hebrew | Sound | Meaning | Word study | In the Bible |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| הָי֨וּ | hayu | they have become | H1961 → | 3559 times |
| צָרֶ֤יהָ | tzareiha | opponents her | H6862 → | 109 times |
| לְרֹאשׁ֙ | lerosh | <into> a head | H7218 → | 599 times |
| אֹיְבֶ֣יהָ | ʾoyeveiha | enemies her | H341 → | 282 times |
| שָׁל֔וּ | shalu | they are at ease | H7951 → | |
| כִּֽי־ | ki- | for | H3588 → | 4482 times |
| יְהוָ֥ה | yahweh | Yahweh | H3068 → | 6520 times |
| הוֹגָ֖הּ | hogah | he has caused grief to her | H3013 → | 8 times |
| עַ֣ל | ʾal | on | H5921 → | 5755 times |
| רֹב־ | rov- | [the] multitude of | H7230 → | 149 times |
| פְּשָׁעֶ֑יהָ | peshaeiha | transgressions her | H6588 → | 93 times |
| עוֹלָלֶ֛יהָ | olaleiha | children her | H5768 → | 20 times |
| הָלְכ֥וּ | halekhu | they have gone | H1980 → | 1546 times |
| שְׁבִ֖י | shevi | captivity | H7628 → | |
| לִפְנֵי־ | lifnei- | <to> before | H6440 → | 2123 times |
| צָֽר׃ ס | tzar | an opponent | H6862 → | 109 times |
הָי֨וּthey have become
hayuH1961 →3559 times
צָרֶ֤יהָopponents her
tzareihaH6862 →109 times
לְרֹאשׁ֙<into> a head
leroshH7218 →599 times
אֹיְבֶ֣יהָenemies her
ʾoyeveihaH341 →282 times
שָׁל֔וּthey are at ease
shaluH7951 →
כִּֽי־for
ki-H3588 →4482 times
יְהוָ֥הYahweh
yahwehH3068 →6520 times
הוֹגָ֖הּhe has caused grief to her
hogahH3013 →8 times
עַ֣לon
ʾalH5921 →5755 times
רֹב־[the] multitude of
rov-H7230 →149 times
פְּשָׁעֶ֑יהָtransgressions her
peshaeihaH6588 →93 times
עוֹלָלֶ֛יהָchildren her
olaleihaH5768 →20 times
הָלְכ֥וּthey have gone
halekhuH1980 →1546 times
שְׁבִ֖יcaptivity
sheviH7628 →
לִפְנֵי־<to> before
lifnei-H6440 →2123 times
צָֽר׃ סan opponent
tzarH6862 →109 times
A shaded row is a word that stands 400 times or fewer in the Bible.
The walk
8 stopsEach 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
Ezekiel 9:9He replied, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is exceedingly great. The land is full of bloodshed, and the city is full of perversity. For they say, ‘The LORD has forsaken…
it leads to
- Ezekiel 8:12
“Son of man,” He said to me, “do you see what the elders of the house of Israel are doing in the darkness, each at the shrine of his own idol? For they are…
- Job 22:13
Yet you say: ‘What does God know? Does He judge through thick darkness?
- 2 Chronicles 36:14–16
Furthermore, all the leaders of the priests and the people multiplied their unfaithful deeds, following all the abominations of the nations, and they defiled the house of the LORD, which He had consecrated in…
- Ezekiel 7:23
Forge the chain, for the land is full of crimes of bloodshed, and the city is full of violence.
- Ezekiel 8:12
Through
Jeremiah 39:9Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried away to Babylon the remnant of the people who had remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to him.
it leads to
- Jeremiah 40:1
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD after Nebuzaradan captain of the guard had released him at Ramah, having found him bound in chains among all the captives of Jerusalem…
- Genesis 37:36
Meanwhile, the Midianites sold Joseph in Egypt to Potiphar, an officer of Pharaoh and captain of the guard.
- Jeremiah 10:18
For this is what the LORD says: “Behold, at this time I will sling out the inhabitants of the land and bring distress upon them so that they may be captured.”
- 2 Kings 25:11
Then Nebuzaradan captain of the guard carried into exile the people who remained in the city, along with the deserters who had defected to the king of Babylon and the rest of the population.
- Jeremiah 40:1
Where this verse is studied
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About Lamentations
This page draws on Adam Clarke, Commentary on the Bible; Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869) and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.