Lamentations 3:51 BSB

Original language & word study

6 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
עֵינִי֙	'ei.Ni	eye my	H5869 →
עֽוֹלְלָ֣ה	'o.Lah	it has dealt severely	H5953 →
לְנַפְשִׁ֔י	le.naf.Shi	to self my	H5315 →
מִכֹּ֖ל	mi.Kol	from all	H3605 →
בְּנ֥וֹת	be.Not	[the] daughters of	H1323 →
עִירִֽי׃ ס	'i.Ri	city my	H5892 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

H5953ʾolahit has dealt severely20×

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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
Lamentations 2:21
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have…
leads to
- 2 Chronicles 36:17
  So He brought up against them the king of the Chaldeans, who put their young men to the sword in the sanctuary, sparing neither young men nor young women, neither elderly nor infirm. God…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Zechariah 11:6
  For I will no longer have compassion on the people of the land, declares the LORD, but behold, I will cause each man to fall into the hands of his neighbor and his king,…
Through
Jeremiah 11:22
So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.
leads to
- Jeremiah 18:21
  Therefore, hand their children over to famine; pour out the power of the sword upon them. Let their wives become childless and widowed; let their husbands be slain by disease, their young men struck…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Through
Jeremiah 19:9
I 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.’
leads to
- Isaiah 9:20
  They carve out what is on the right, but they are still hungry; they eat what is on the left, but they are still not satisfied. Each one devours the flesh of his own…
- Leviticus 26:29
  You will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters.
- Lamentations 4:10
  The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
- Deuteronomy 28:53–57
  Then you will eat the fruit of your womb, the flesh of the sons and daughters whom the LORD your God has given you, in the siege and distress that your enemy will inflict…
Through
Lamentations 5:11
Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.
leads to
- Isaiah 13:16
  Their infants will be dashed to pieces before their eyes, their houses will be looted, and their wives will be ravished.

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Nehemiah 2:17Then I said to them, “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins, and its gates have been burned down. Come, let us rebuild the wall of Jerusalem, so that we will no longer be a disgrace.”Romans 9:2I have deep sorrow and unceasing anguish in my heart.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.’Luke 19:41–44As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it Lamentations 5:11Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.Lamentations 2:21Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.Jeremiah 11:22So this is what the LORD of Hosts says: “I will punish them. Their young men will die by the sword, their sons and daughters by famine.Jeremiah 14:16And the people to whom they prophesy will be thrown into the streets of Jerusalem because of famine and sword. There will be no one to bury them or their wives, their sons or their daughters. I will pour out their own evil upon them.Jeremiah 4:19–21My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.Lamentations 1:18The 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.1 Samuel 30:3–4When David and his men came to the city, they found it burned down and their wives and sons and daughters taken captive.Jeremiah 14:18If I go out to the country, I see those slain by the sword; if I enter the city, I see those ravaged by famine! For both prophet and priest travel to a land they do not know.’”Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.Genesis 44:34For how can I go back to my father without the boy? I could not bear to see the misery that would overwhelm him.”

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