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Lamentations 1:19

I 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.

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ASV

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

KJV

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
קָרָ֤אתִיka.Ra.tiI calledH7121 →
לַֽמְאַהֲבַי֙lam.'a.ha.Vaito <the> lovers myH157 →
הֵ֣מָּהHe.mahtheyH1992 →
רִמּ֔וּנִיri.Mu.nithey deceived meH7411 →
כֹּהֲנַ֥יko.ha.Naipriests myH3548 →
וּזְקֵנַ֖יu.ze.ke.Naiand elders myH2205 →
בָּעִ֣ירba.'Irin the cityH5892 →
גָּוָ֑עוּga.Va.'uthey perishedH1478 →
כִּֽי־ki-forH3588 →
בִקְשׁ֥וּvik.Shuthey soughtH1245 →
אֹ֙כֶל֙'o.khelfoodH400 →
לָ֔מוֹla.mofor themselves
וְיָשִׁ֖יבוּve.ya.Shi.vuso they may be restoredH7725 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
נַפְשָֽׁם׃ סnaf.Shamlife theirH5315 →

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Matthew 26:31Then Jesus said to them, “This very night you will all fall away on account of Me. For it is written: ‘I will strike the Shepherd, and the sheep of the flock will be scattered.’Jeremiah 4:30And you, O devastated one, what will you do, though you dress yourself in scarlet, though you adorn yourself with gold jewelry, though you enlarge your eyes with paint? You adorn yourself in vain; your lovers despise you; they want to take your life.Lamentations 1:2She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.Lamentations 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.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?Job 19:13–19He has removed my brothers from me; my acquaintances have abandoned me.Isaiah 51:20Your sons have fainted; they lie at the head of every street, like an antelope in a net. They are full of the wrath of the LORD, the rebuke of your God.Lamentations 1:17Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.Jeremiah 14:15–18Therefore this is what the LORD says about the prophets who prophesy in My name: I did not send them, yet they say, ‘No sword or famine will touch this land.’ By sword and famine these very prophets will meet their end!Jeremiah 2:28But where are the gods you made for yourselves? Let them rise up in your time of trouble and save you if they can; for your gods are as numerous as your cities, O Judah.Jeremiah 37:7–9“This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says that you are to tell the king of Judah, who sent you to Me: Behold, Pharaoh’s army, which has marched out to help you, will go back to its own land of Egypt.Lamentations 4:7–9Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.Lamentations 5:12Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.Jeremiah 23:11–15“For both prophet and priest are ungodly; even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the LORD.Jeremiah 30:14All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins.Lamentations 4:17All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.Jeremiah 27:13–15Why should you and your people die by sword and famine and plague, as the LORD has decreed against any nation that does not serve the king of Babylon?Lamentations 5:14The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.

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People Mourn over the Destruction of Jerusalem — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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