Lamentations 1:8 BSB

Lamentations 1:8

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.

BSB

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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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Commentary

2 voices

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

The record, by era

The Nineteenth Century1 voice

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].

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Original language & word study

18 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
חֵ֤טְא	chet'	sin	H2399 →
חָֽטְאָה֙	cha.te.'Ah	she has sinned	H2398 →
יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם	ye.Ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →
עַל־	'al-	there-	H5921 →
כֵּ֖ן	ken	-fore	H3651 →
לְנִידָ֣ה	le.ni.Dah	<into> impurity	H5206 →
הָיָ֑תָה	ha.Ya.tah	she has become	H1961 →
כָּֽל־	kal-	all	H3605 →
מְכַבְּדֶ֤יהָ	me.kha.be.Dei.ha	[those who] honored her	H3513 →
הִזִּיל֙וּהָ֙	hi.zi.Lu.ha	they despise her	H2107 →
כִּי־	ki-	for	H3588 →
רָא֣וּ	ra.'U	they have seen	H7200 →
עֶרְוָתָ֔הּ	'er.va.Tah	nakedness her	H6172 →
גַּם־	gam-	also	H1571 →
הִ֥יא	hi'	she	H1931 →
נֶאֶנְחָ֖ה	ne.'en.Chah	<she> has groaned	H584 →
וַתָּ֥שָׁב	va.Ta.shov	and she has turned away	H7725 →
אָחֽוֹר׃ ס	'a.Chor	backward	H268 →

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

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.
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.
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…