New American Standard Bible 2020

Lamentations 1:12-22

12“Is it 1nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain Which was inflicted on me, With which the 2Lord tormented me on the day of His 3fierce anger.13From 4the height He sent fire into my 5bones, And it dominated them. He has spread a 6net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me 7desolate, 8Faint all day long.14The 9yoke of my wrongdoings is bound; By His hand they are woven together. They have 10come upon my neck; He has made my strength 11fail. The Lord 12has handed me over To those against whom I am not able to stand.15The 13Lord has thrown away all my strong men In my midst; He has called an appointed 14time against me To crush my 15young men; The Lord has 16trodden as in a wine press The virgin daughter of Judah.16For these things I 17weep; 18My eyes run down with water; Because far from me is a 19comforter, One to restore my soul. My children are desolate Because the enemy has prevailed.”17Zion 20stretches out with her hands; There is no one to comfort her; The Lord has 21commanded regarding Jacob That those around him become his adversaries; 22Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.18“The Lord is 23righteous, For I have 24rebelled against His 25command; Hear now, all peoples, And 26see my pain; 27My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.19I 28called to my lovers, but they deserted me; My 29priests and my elders perished in the city While they sought food to 30restore their 31strength themselves.20See, Lord, for I am in distress; My 32 33spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very 34rebellious. In the street the sword has made women childless; In the house it is like death.21They have heard that I 35groan; There is no one to comfort me, All my enemies have heard of my disaster; They are 36joyful that You have done it. Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed, So that they will become 37like me.22May all their wickedness come before You; And 38deal with them just as You have dealt with me For all my wrongdoings. For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”

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Notes

1. Lamentations 1:12 Jer 18:16; 48:27 ↩
2. Lamentations 1:12 Jer 30:23, 24 ↩
3. Lamentations 1:12 Is 13:13; Jer 4:8 ↩
4. Lamentations 1:13 I.e., heaven ↩
5. Lamentations 1:13 Job 30:30; Ps 22:14; Hab 3:16 ↩
6. Lamentations 1:13 Job 19:6; Ps 66:11 ↩
7. Lamentations 1:13 Jer 44:6 ↩
8. Lamentations 1:13 Or Sick ↩
9. Lamentations 1:14 Prov 5:22; Is 47:6 ↩
10. Lamentations 1:14 Jer 28:13, 14 ↩
11. Lamentations 1:14 Lit falter ↩
12. Lamentations 1:14 Jer 32:3, 5; Ezek 25:4, 7 ↩
13. Lamentations 1:15 Is 41:2; Jer 13:24; 37:10 ↩
14. Lamentations 1:15 Another reading is feast ↩
15. Lamentations 1:15 Jer 6:11; 18:21 ↩
16. Lamentations 1:15 Mal 4:3 ↩
17. Lamentations 1:16 Jer 14:17; Lam 2:11, 18; 3:48, 49 ↩
18. Lamentations 1:16 Lit My eye, my eye ↩
19. Lamentations 1:16 Ps 69:20; Eccl 4:1; Lam 1:2 ↩
20. Lamentations 1:17 Is 1:15; Jer 4:31 ↩
21. Lamentations 1:17 2 Kin 24:2-4; Jer 12:9 ↩
22. Lamentations 1:17 Lam 1:8 ↩
23. Lamentations 1:18 Ps 119:75; Jer 12:1 ↩
24. Lamentations 1:18 1 Sam 12:14, 15; Jer 4:17 ↩
25. Lamentations 1:18 Lit mouth ↩
26. Lamentations 1:18 Lam 1:12 ↩
27. Lamentations 1:18 Deut 28:32, 41 ↩
28. Lamentations 1:19 Job 19:13-19; Lam 1:2 ↩
29. Lamentations 1:19 Jer 14:15; Lam 2:20 ↩
30. Lamentations 1:19 Lam 1:11 ↩
31. Lamentations 1:19 Lit soul ↩
32. Lamentations 1:20 Lit inward parts are in ferment ↩
33. Lamentations 1:20 Is 16:11; Lam 2:11 ↩
34. Lamentations 1:20 Jer 14:20 ↩
35. Lamentations 1:21 Lam 1:4, 8, 22 ↩
36. Lamentations 1:21 Ps 35:15; Jer 50:11; Lam 2:15 ↩
37. Lamentations 1:21 Is 14:5, 6; 47:6, 11; Jer 30:16 ↩
38. Lamentations 1:22 Neh 4:4, 5; Ps 137:7, 8 ↩

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