Lamentations 4:12 BSB

Lamentations 4:12

The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

KJV

The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

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Commentary

1 voice

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

1802–1910

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible (1871)

Jerusalem was so fortified that all thought it impregnable. It therefore could only have been the hand of God, not the force of man, which overthrew it.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לֹ֤א	lo'	not	H3808 →
הֶאֱמִ֙ינוּ֙	he.'e.Mi.nu	they believed	H539 →
מַלְכֵי־	mal.khei-	[the] kings of	H4428 →
אֶ֔רֶץ	'E.retz	[the] earth	H776 →
כֹּ֖ל	khol	all	H3605 →
יֹשְׁבֵ֣י	yo.she.Vei	[the] inhabitants of	H3427 →
תֵבֵ֑ל	te.Vel	[the] world	H8398 →
כִּ֤י	ki	that	H3588 →
יָבֹא֙	ya.Vo'	he will go	H935 →
צַ֣ר	tzar	opponent	H6862 →
וְאוֹיֵ֔ב	ve.'o.Yev	and enemy	H341 →
בְּשַׁעֲרֵ֖י	be.sha.'a.Rei	in [the] gates of	H8179 →
יְרוּשָׁלִָֽם׃ ס	ye.ru.sha.Lim	Jerusalem	H3389 →

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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 21:13
Behold, I am against you who dwell above the valley, atop the rocky plateau—declares the LORD—you who say, “Who can come against us? Who can enter our dwellings?”
leads to
- Obadiah 1:3–4
  The pride of your heart has deceived you, O dwellers in the clefts of the rocks whose habitation is the heights, who say in your heart, ‘Who can bring me down to the ground?’
- Ezekiel 13:8
  Therefore this is what the Lord GOD says: Because you have uttered vain words and seen false visions, I am against you, declares the Lord GOD.
- Psalms 125:2
  As the mountains surround Jerusalem, so the LORD surrounds His people, both now and forevermore.
- Jeremiah 23:30–32
  “Therefore behold,” declares the LORD, “I am against the prophets who steal from one another words they attribute to Me.”
- Jeremiah 49:4–5
  Why do you boast of your valleys—your valleys so fruitful, O faithless daughter? You trust in your riches and say, ‘Who can come against me?’