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Lamentations 1:18

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The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

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The same verse in ASV and KJV ▾

ASV

Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

KJV

The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

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This verse in Lamentations 1

Commentary

2 notes on this verse

A commentator

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

The sure sign of repentance; justifying God, condemning herself (Ne 9:33; Da 9:7-14). his commandment--literally, "mouth"; His word in the mouth of the prophets.

This site's exposition

Zion spreadeth forth her hands

on Lamentations 1:17-19

Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her, the third statement of the chapter's want-of-comfort thread, the Lord himself named as having commanded the adversaries round about Jacob. The figure of a menstruous woman among them draws on the Law's own language for ritual uncleanness, Jerusalem cast out from the community of nations the way the Law once set such a woman outside the camp, an image the older commentators do not soften. The confession that follows, I have grievously rebelled, and the naming of allies who deceived her, ties the political betrayal to the moral cause in one breath.

The words behind it

16 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.

  • צַדִּ֥יק[is] righteous

    tzadikH6662 →

  • ה֛וּאhe

    hu'H1931 →1879 times

  • יְהוָ֖הYahweh

    yahwehH3068 →6520 times

  • כִּ֣יfor

    kiH3588 →4482 times

  • פִ֣יהוּmouth his

    fihuH6310 →498 times

  • מָרִ֑יתִיI have been rebellious

    maritiH4784 →45 times

  • שִׁמְעוּ־listen

    shimu-H8085 →1159 times

  • נָ֣אplease

    na'H4994 →

  • כָל־O all

    khol-H3605 →5413 times

  • הָֽעַמִּ֗יםthe peoples

    haamimH5971 →1873 times

  • וּרְאוּ֙and see

    ureuH7200 →1300 times

  • מַכְאֹבִ֔יpain my

    makhoviH4341 →16 times

  • בְּתוּלֹתַ֥יyoung women my

    betulotaiH1330 →50 times

  • וּבַחוּרַ֖יand young men my

    uvachuraiH970 →44 times

  • הָלְכ֥וּthey have gone

    halekhuH1980 →1546 times

  • בַשֶּֽׁבִי׃ סin <the> captivity

    vasheviH7628 →

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.

Psalms 119:75I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.6 works1 Samuel 12:14–15If you fear the LORD and serve Him and obey His voice, and if you do not rebel against the command of the LORD, and if both you and the king who reigns over you follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.5 worksZephaniah 3:5The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.5 worksExodus 9:27Then Pharaoh summoned Moses and Aaron. “This time I have sinned,” he said. “The LORD is righteous, and I and my people are wicked.5 worksLamentations 1:12Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?4 worksJeremiah 12:1Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live at ease?4 works
The other 12 cross-references, with their words ▾
Lamentations 3:42“We have sinned and rebelled; You have not forgiven.”3 worksNehemiah 9:33You are just in all that has befallen us, because You have acted faithfully, while we have acted wickedly.3 worksPsalms 107:11because they rebelled against the words of God and despised the counsel of the Most High.3 worksLeviticus 26:14If, however, you fail to obey Me and to carry out all these commandments,3 worksDaniel 9:8O LORD, we are covered with shame—our kings, our leaders, and our fathers—because we have sinned against You.3 worksIsaiah 63:10But they rebelled and grieved His Holy Spirit. So He turned and became their enemy, and He Himself fought against them.3 worksJeremiah 32:23They came in and possessed it, but they did not obey Your voice or walk in Your law. They failed to perform all that You commanded them to do, and so You have brought upon them all this disaster.3 worksPsalms 129:4The LORD is righteous; He has cut me from the cords of the wicked.3 worksAmos 8:13In that day the lovely young women—the young men as well—will faint from thirst.3 worksZechariah 1:6But did not My words and My statutes, which I commanded My servants the prophets, overtake your fathers? They repented and said, ‘Just as the LORD of Hosts purposed to do to us according to our ways and deeds, so He has done to us.’”3 worksLamentations 1:5–6Her 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.2 works1 Samuel 15:23For rebellion is like the sin of divination, and arrogance is like the wickedness of idolatry. Because you have rejected the word of the LORD, He has rejected you as king.”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 12:1

    Righteous are You, O LORD, when I plead before You. Yet about Your judgments I wish to contend with You: Why does the way of the wicked prosper? Why do all the faithless live…

    it leads to

    • Malachi 3:15

      So now we call the arrogant blessed. Not only do evildoers prosper, they even test God and escape.’”

    • Psalms 92:7

      that though the wicked sprout like grass, and all evildoers flourish, they will be forever destroyed.

    • Psalms 37:1

      Do not fret over those who do evil; do not envy those who do wrong.

    • Psalms 73:3–28

      For I envied the arrogant when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.

    • Psalms 37:35

      I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,

  • Through

    Zephaniah 3:5

    The LORD within her is righteous; He does no wrong. He applies His justice morning by morning; He does not fail at dawn, yet the unjust know no shame.

    it leads to

    • Deuteronomy 32:4

      He is the Rock, His work is perfect; all His ways are just. A God of faithfulness without injustice, righteous and upright is He.

    • Psalms 145:17

      The LORD is righteous in all His ways and kind in all His deeds.

  • Through

    Psalms 119:75

    I know, O LORD, that Your judgments are righteous, and that in faithfulness You have afflicted me.

    it leads to

    • Revelation 3:19

      Those I love, I rebuke and discipline. Therefore be earnest and repent.

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; Jamieson, Fausset & Brown, Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible and John Gill, Exposition of the Old Testament.

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