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Lamentations 1:5
5Her adversaries have become her masters, Her enemies prosper; For the Lord has caused her grief Because of the multitude of her transgressions; Her young children have gone Into captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations 1:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
- New International Version (NIV)Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The Lord has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because the Lord has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Her adversaries have become the master, Her enemies prosper; For the Lord has afflicted her Because of the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
Context of Lamentations 1:5
3Judah has gone into exile under affliction And under harsh servitude; She dwells among the [pagan] nations, But she has found no rest; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of [her] distress. 4The roads to Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are grieved and suffering, And she suffers bitterly. Her adversaries have become her masters, Her enemies prosper; For the Lord has caused her grief Because of the multitude of her transgressions; Her young children have gone Into captivity before the enemy. 6All her beauty and majesty Have departed from the Daughter of Zion (Jerusalem). Her princes have become like deer That have found no pasture; They have fled without strength Before the pursuer. 7In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That she had from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, And no one helped her, The enemy saw her, They mocked at her downfall.
Read all of Lamentations 1Lamentations 1:5 word by word
הָי֨וּ צָרֶ֤יהָ לְרֹאשׁ֙ אֹיְבֶ֣יהָ שָׁל֔וּ כִּֽי־יְהוָ֥ה הוֹגָ֖הּ עַ֣ל רֹב־פְּשָׁעֶ֑יהָ עוֹלָלֶ֛יהָ הָלְכ֥וּ שְׁבִ֖י לִפְנֵי־צָֽר׃ סRead the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
- Her adversariesצַרtsar tsâr · enemyH6862
- are the chiefרֹאשׁrô'sh · head: leaderH7218
- her enemiesאֹיֵב'ôyêb 'ôyêb · enemyH341
- prosperשָׁלָהshâlâh shâlav · to prosperH7951
- for the Lordיְהֹוָהyehôvâh · LORDH3068
- hath afflictedיָגָהyâgâh · to sufferH3013
- her for the multitudeרֹבrôb · abundanceH7230
- of her transgressionsפֶּ֫שַׁעpesha‛ · transgressionH6588
- her childrenעוֹלֵל‛ôlêl ‛ôlâl · infantH5768
- are goneהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
- into captivityשְׁבִיshebîy · captivityH7628
- beforeפָּנֶהpânîym · face: beforeH6440
Cross-references for Lamentations 1:5
- Lamentations 2:17The Lord has done what He planned; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has demolished without sparing, And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the power of your enemies.
- Lamentations 3:46All our enemies have gaped at us.
- Leviticus 26:17I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.
- Deuteronomy 28:43The stranger who lives among you will rise above you higher and higher, and you will go down lower and lower.
- Psalms 80:6You make us an object of contention to our neighbors, And our enemies laugh [at our suffering] among themselves.
- Psalms 89:42You have exalted the right hand of his foes; You have made all his enemies rejoice.
- Isaiah 63:18Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for [only] a little while; Our adversaries have trampled it down.
- Jeremiah 12:7“I have abandoned My house, I have given up My [precious] inheritance (Judah); I have given the [dearly] beloved of My life Into the hands of her enemies.
- Micah 7:8Do not rejoice over me [amid my tragedies], O my enemy! Though I fall, I will rise; Though I sit in the darkness [of distress], the Lord is a light for me.
- Lamentations 1:18“The Lord is righteous and just; For I have rebelled against His commandment (His word). Hear now, all you peoples, And look at my pain; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.
- Lamentations 3:39Why should any living mortal, or any man, Complain [of punishment] in view of his sins?
- Leviticus 26:15if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul rejects My ordinances, so that you will not [obediently] do all My commandments, and in this way break My covenant,
- Deuteronomy 4:25“When you become the father of children and grandchildren and have grown old in the land, then if you corrupt yourselves by making a carved or sculpted image in the form of anything [for the purpose of worship], and do evil [things] in the sight of the Lord your God, provoking Him to anger,
- Deuteronomy 28:15“But it shall come about, if you do not listen to and obey the voice of the Lord your God, being careful to do all His commandments and His statutes which I am commanding you today, then all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:
- Deuteronomy 29:18so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the [false] gods of these nations; so that there will not be among you a root [of idolatry] bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood (bitterness).
- Deuteronomy 31:16The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down [in death] with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the prostitute (commit apostasy) with the foreign gods [of the people] of the land, where they go to be among them. They will abandon (turn away from) Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.
Commentaries on Lamentations 1:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5Her adversaries are the chief - They have now supreme dominion over the whole land.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Are the chief prosper - Or, “are become the head” are at rest. Judaea is so entirely crushed that her enemies did not need to take precautions against resistance on her part. Children - i. e. “young children,” who are driven before the enemy (literally the adversary), not as a flock of lambs which follow the shepherd, but for sale as slaves.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5because of her many transgression: Judah's sins before the Babylonian invasion are described in 2 Kings 21:1–9, 16; 24:3–4 (compare 2 Chronicles 33:1–10, 22–23 and 2 Chronicles 36:11–16). Similarly, a list of Israel's sins before Assyria destroyed it is found in 2 Kings 17:14–23.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. the chief--rule her (De 28:43, 44). adversaries ... prosper; for the Lord--All the foes' attempts would have failed, had not God delivered His people into their hands (Jr 30:15). Vau.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Lamentations 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Luther’s Commentary on Selected Bible Passages
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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