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Lamentations 1:8

in Lamentations 1

Jerusalem 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.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

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.

KJV

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

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This verse in Lamentations 1

Commentary

3 notes on this verse
Grievously sinned - literally, “Jerusalem hath sinned a sin,” giving the idea of a persistent continuance in wickedness. Removed - Or, become an abomination. Sin has made Jerusalem an object of horror, and therefore she is cast away. Yea, she sigheth ... - Jerusalem groans over the infamy of her deeds thus brought to open shame, and turns her back upon the spectators in order to hide herself.

This site's exposition

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction

on Lamentations 1:7-9

Memory becomes its own affliction, Jerusalem remembering in her misery all the pleasant things she once had, while the adversaries mock at her sabbaths, worship itself become a subject for scorn. The poet names the cause without softening it, Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is removed, judgment stated as consequence rather than accident. Her filthiness is in her skirts because she remembereth not her last end, a figure the bench reads as the moral history of a nation that never reckoned with where its course was leading, and the unit closes in the line that turns the whole poem to prayer, O Lord, behold my affliction.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

(1Ki 8:46). is removed--as a woman separated from the congregation of God for legal impurity, which is a type of moral impurity. 15:19, &c. her nakedness--They have treated her as contumeliously as courtesans from whom their clothes are stripped. turneth backward--as modest women do from shame, that is, she is cast down from all hope of restoration [CALVIN].

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.

  • חֵ֤טְאsin

    chet'H2399 →

  • חָֽטְאָה֙she has sinned

    chateahH2398 →238 times

  • יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔םJerusalem

    yerushalimH3389 →643 times

  • עַל־there-

    ʾal-H5921 →5755 times

  • כֵּ֖ן-fore

    kenH3651 →771 times

  • לְנִידָ֣ה<into> impurity

    lenidahH5206 →

  • הָיָ֑תָהshe has become

    hayatahH1961 →3559 times

  • כָּֽל־all

    kal-H3605 →5413 times

  • מְכַבְּדֶ֤יהָ[those who] honored her

    mekhabedeihaH3513 →

  • הִזִּיל֙וּהָ֙they despise her

    hiziluhaH2107 →

  • כִּי־for

    ki-H3588 →4482 times

  • רָא֣וּthey have seen

    rauH7200 →1300 times

  • עֶרְוָתָ֔הּnakedness her

    ʾervatahH6172 →

  • גַּם־also

    gam-H1571 →769 times

  • הִ֥יאshe

    hi'H1931 →1879 times

  • נֶאֶנְחָ֖ה<she> has groaned

    neenchahH584 →13 times

  • וַתָּ֥שָׁבand she has turned away

    vatashovH7725 →1056 times

  • אָחֽוֹר׃ סbackward

    ʾachorH268 →41 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.

Luke 19:44They will level you to the ground—you and the children within your walls. They will not leave one stone on another, because you did not recognize the time of your visitation from God.”8 worksJeremiah 13:26So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.6 worksIsaiah 59:2–13But your iniquities have built barriers between you and your God, and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He does not hear.5 worksLamentations 1:20–22See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.5 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.5 worksJeremiah 13:22And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Lamentations 1:4–5The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.3 worksLamentations 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.3 worksEzekiel 16:37therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you before them, and they will see you completely naked.3 worksRevelation 3:18I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.2 worksEzekiel 23:29They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity2 worksLamentations 4:21So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you will get drunk and expose yourself.2 worksLamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.2 works1 Samuel 2:30Therefore, the LORD, the God of Israel, declares: ‘I did indeed say that your house and the house of your father would walk before Me forever. But now the LORD declares: Far be it from Me! For I will honor those who honor Me, but those who despise Me will be disdained.2 works1 Kings 9:9And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, worshiping and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’”2 worksEzekiel 22:2–15“As for you, son of man, will you judge her? Will you pass judgment on the city of bloodshed? Then confront her with all her abominations2 worksLamentations 4:15–16“Go away! Unclean!” men shouted at them. “Away, away! Do not touch us!” So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, “They can stay here no longer.”2 worksJeremiah 15:4I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh son of Hezekiah king of Judah did in Jerusalem.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

    Jeremiah 13:22

    And if you ask yourself, “Why has this happened to me?” It is because of the magnitude of your iniquity that your skirts have been stripped off and your body has been exposed.

    it leads to

    • Nahum 3:5

      “Behold, I am against you,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will lift your skirts over your face. I will show your nakedness to the nations and your shame to the kingdoms.

    • Jeremiah 16:10–11

      When you tell these people all these things, they will ask you, ‘Why has the LORD pronounced all this great disaster against us? What is our guilt? What is the sin that we have…

    • Jeremiah 5:19

      And when the people ask, ‘For what offense has the LORD our God done all these things to us?’ You are to tell them, ‘Just as you have forsaken Me and served foreign gods…

    • Deuteronomy 7:17

      You may say in your heart, “These nations are greater than we are; how can we drive them out?”

    • Jeremiah 13:26

      So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

  • Through

    Jeremiah 13:26

    So I will pull your skirts up over your face, that your shame may be seen.

    it leads to

    • Hosea 2:10

      And then I will expose her lewdness in the sight of her lovers, and no one will deliver her out of My hands.

    • Ezekiel 23:29

      They will treat you with hatred, take all for which you have worked, and leave you naked and bare, so that the shame of your prostitution will be exposed. Your indecency and promiscuity

    • Ezekiel 16:37

      therefore I will surely gather all the lovers with whom you found pleasure, all those you loved and all those you hated. I will gather them against you from all around and expose you…

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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 Albert Barnes, Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869); Carl Friedrich Keil, Lamentations; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and Matthew Henry, Commentary on the Whole Bible.

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