Lamentations 1:8

Lamentations 1:8 in other versions

• King James Version (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.
• New International Version (NIV)Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.
• New King James Version (NKJV)Jerusalem has sinned gravely, Therefore she has become vile. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Yes, she sighs and turns away.
• New Living Translation (NLT)Jerusalem has sinned greatly, so she has been tossed away like a filthy rag. All who once honored her now despise her, for they have seen her stripped naked and humiliated. All she can do is groan and hide her face.

Context of Lamentations 1:8

6From the daughter of Zion all her majesty has departed. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer. 7Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall. Jerusalem sinned grievously; therefore she became filthy; all who honored her despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns her face away. 9Her uncleanness was in her skirts; she took no thought of her future; therefore her fall is terrible; she has no comforter. "O Lord, behold my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!" 10The enemy has stretched out his hands over all her precious things; for she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, those whom you forbade to enter your congregation.

Lamentations 1:8 word by word

חֵ֤טְא חָֽטְאָה֙ יְר֣וּשָׁלִַ֔ם עַל־כֵּ֖ן לְנִידָ֣ה הָיָ֑תָה כָּֽל־מְכַבְּדֶ֤יהָ הִזִּיל֙וּהָ֙ כִּי־רָא֣וּ עֶרְוָתָ֔הּ גַּם־הִ֥יא נֶאֶנְחָ֖ה וַתָּ֥שָׁב אָחֽוֹר׃ סRead the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלִַ֫ם, יְרוּשְׁלֵםyerûshâlaim yerûshâlayim · JerusalemH3389
• hath grievouslyחֵטְאchêţ' · sinH2399
• sinnedחָטָאchâţâ' · to sinH2398
• therefore she is removedנִידָהnîydâh · filthH5206
• all that honouredכָּבֵדkâbad kâbêd · to honor: honourH3513
• her despiseזוּלzûl · to lavish/despiseH2107
• her, because they have seenרָאָהrâ'âh · to see: seeH7200
• her nakednessעֶרְוָה‛ervâh · nakednessH6172
• yea, she sighethאָנַח'ânach · to sighH584
• and turnethשׁוּבshûb · to return: repentH7725
• backwardאָחוֹר'âchôr 'âchôr · backH268

Cross-references for Lamentations 1:8

• Lamentations 1:5Her 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.
• 1 Kings 8:46"If they sin against you—for there is no one who does not sin—and you are angry with them and give them to an enemy, so that they are carried away captive to the land of the enemy, far off or near,
• 1 Kings 9:7then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and the house that I have consecrated for my name I will cast out of my sight, and Israel will become a proverb and a byword among all peoples.
• Isaiah 59:2but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear.
• Jeremiah 6:28They are all stubbornly rebellious, going about with slanders; they are bronze and iron; all of them act corruptly.
• Ezekiel 14:13"Son of man, when a land sins against me by acting faithlessly, and I stretch out my hand against it and break its supply of bread and send famine upon it, and cut off from it man and beast,
• Ezekiel 22:2"And you, son of man, will you judge, will you judge the bloody city? Then declare to her all her abominations.
• Jeremiah 15:4And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.
• Jeremiah 24:9I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth, to be a reproach, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them.
• Jeremiah 34:17"Therefore, thus says the Lord: You have not obeyed me by proclaiming liberty, every one to his brother and to his neighbor; behold, I proclaim to you liberty to the sword, to pestilence, and to famine, declares the Lord. I will make you a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth.
• Ezekiel 23:46For thus says the Lord God: "Bring up a vast host against them, and make them an object of terror and a plunder.
• Lamentations 4:15"Away! Unclean!" people cried at them. "Away! Away! Do not touch!" So they became fugitives and wanderers; people said among the nations, "They shall stay with us no longer."
• Lamentations 5:12Princes are hung up by their hands; no respect is shown to the elders.
• 1 Samuel 2:30Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: 'I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,' but now the Lord declares: 'Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.
• Lamentations 4:21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz; but to you also the cup shall pass; you shall become drunk and strip yourself bare.
• Isaiah 47:3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, and your disgrace shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will spare no one.

Commentaries on Lamentations 1:8

• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 8Grievously 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.Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 8-9Jerusalem lost everything the people valued, both physical things and spiritual blessings.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 88. (1Ki 8:46). is removed--as a woman separated from the congregation of God for legal impurity, which is a type of moral impurity. So La 1:17; Le 12:2; 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]. Teth.Read the comment

Topics related to Lamentations 1:8

• Jerusalem
• Sin

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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