New English Translation
Lamentations 1:5
5Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the Lord afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy. ו (Vav)
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 departed into exile under affliction and harsh oppression. She lives among the nations; she has found no resting place. All who pursued her overtook her in narrow straits. ד (Dalet) 4The roads to Zion mourn because no one travels to the festivals. All her city gates are deserted; her priests groan. Her virgins grieve; she is in bitter anguish! ה (He) Her foes subjugated her; her enemies are at ease. For the Lord afflicted her because of her many acts of rebellion. Her children went away captive before the enemy. ו (Vav) 6All of Daughter Zion’s splendor has departed. Her leaders became like deer; they found no pasture, so they were too exhausted to escape from the hunter. ז (Zayin) 7Jerusalem remembers, when she became a poor homeless person, all her treasures that she owned in days of old. When her people fell into an enemy’s grip, none of her allies came to her rescue. Her enemies gloated over her; they sneered at her downfall. ח (Khet)
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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 fulfilled his promise that he threatened long ago: He has overthrown you without mercy and has enabled the enemy to gloat over you; he has exalted your adversaries’ power. צ (Tsade)
- Lamentations 3:46All our enemies have gloated over us;
- Leviticus 26:17I will set my face against you. You will be struck down before your enemies, those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when there is no one pursuing you.
- Deuteronomy 28:43The foreigners who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.
- Psalms 80:6You have made our neighbors dislike us, and our enemies insult us.
- Psalms 89:42You have allowed his adversaries to be victorious, and all his enemies to rejoice.
- Isaiah 63:18For a short time your special nation possessed a land, but then our adversaries knocked down your holy sanctuary.
- Jeremiah 12:7“I will abandon my nation. I will forsake the people I call my own. I will turn my beloved people over to the power of their enemies.
- Micah 7:8My enemies, do not gloat over me! Though I have fallen, I will get up. Though I sit in darkness, the Lord will be my light.
- Lamentations 1:18The Lord is right to judge me! Yes, I rebelled against his commands. Please listen, all you nations, and look at my suffering! My young women and men have gone into exile. ק (Qof)
- Lamentations 3:39Why should any living person complain when punished for his sins? נ (Nun)
- Leviticus 26:15if you reject my statutes and abhor my regulations so that you do not keep all my commandments and you break my covenant –
- Deuteronomy 4:25After you have produced children and grandchildren and have been in the land a long time, if you become corrupt and make an image of any kind and do other evil things before the Lord your God that enrage him,
- Deuteronomy 28:15“But if you ignore the Lord your God and are not careful to keep all his commandments and statutes I am giving you today, then all these curses will come upon you in full force:
- Deuteronomy 29:18Beware that the heart of no man, woman, clan, or tribe among you turns away from the Lord our God today to pursue and serve the gods of those nations; beware that there is among you no root producing poisonous and bitter fruit.
- Deuteronomy 31:16Then the Lord said to Moses, “You are about to die, and then these people will begin to prostitute themselves with the foreign gods of the land into which they are going. They will reject me and break my covenant that 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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