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Lamentations 1:11

All 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.

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ASV

All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.

KJV

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.

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16 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
עַמָּ֤הּ'a.Mahpeople itsH5971 →
נֶאֱנָחִים֙ne.'e.na.Chim[are] groaningH584 →
מְבַקְּשִׁ֣יםme.va.ke.Shim[are] seekingH1245 →
לֶ֔חֶםLe.chembreadH3899 →
נָתְנ֧וּna.te.Nuthey have givenH5414 →
מַחֲמַדֵּיהֶ֛םma.cha.mo.dei.hemprecious things theirH4261 →
בְּאֹ֖כֶלbe.'O.khelfor foodH400 →
לְהָשִׁ֣יבle.ha.Shivto restoreH7725 →
נָ֑פֶשׁNa.feshlifeH5315 →
רְאֵ֤הre.'EhseeH7200 →
יְהוָה֙Yah.wehO YahwehH3068 →
וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָהve.ha.Bi.tahand look !H5027 →
כִּ֥יkiforH3588 →
הָיִ֖יתִיha.Yi.tiI amH1961 →
זוֹלֵלָֽה׃ סzo.le.LahdespisedH2151 →

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Jeremiah 52:6By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food.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.Jeremiah 38:9“My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have dropped him into the cistern, where he will starve to death, for there is no more bread in the city.”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.Deuteronomy 28:52–57They will besiege all the cities throughout your land, until the high and fortified walls in which you trust have fallen. They will besiege all your cities throughout the land that the LORD your God has given you.1 Samuel 30:11–12Now his men found an Egyptian in the field and brought him to David. They gave the man water to drink and food to eat—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.Genesis 47:19Why should we perish before your eyes—we and our land as well? Purchase us and our land in exchange for food. Then we, along with our land, will be slaves to Pharaoh. Give us seed that we may live and not die, and that the land may not become desolate.”Lamentations 4:4–10The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.Jeremiah 19:9I will make them eat the flesh of their sons and daughters, and they will eat one another’s flesh in the siege and distress inflicted on them by their enemies who seek their lives.’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!Psalms 25:15–19My eyes are always on the LORD, for He will free my feet from the mesh.Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.2 Kings 6:25So there was a great famine in Samaria. Indeed, they besieged the city so long that a donkey’s head sold for eighty shekels of silver, and a quarter cab of dove’s dung sold for five shekels of silver.Lamentations 1:19–20I 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.Ezekiel 5:16–17When I shower you with the deadly arrows of famine and destruction that I will send to destroy you, I will intensify the famine against you and cut off your supply of food.Ezekiel 4:15–17“Look,” He replied, “I will let you use cow dung instead of human excrement, and you may bake your bread over that.”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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People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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