Lamentations

Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. < Lamentations 3:50 | > Lamentations 3:52 Reflection Lamentations 3:51 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By […]

Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause. < Lamentations 3:51 | > Lamentations 3:53 Reflection Lamentations 3:52 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing mine, enemies, […]

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me. < Lamentations 3:52 | > Lamentations 3:54 Reflection Lamentations 3:53 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not […]

Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off. < Lamentations 3:53 | > Lamentations 3:55 Reflection Lamentations 3:54 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing […]

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon. < Lamentations 3:54 | > Lamentations 3:56 Reflection Lamentations 3:55 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing […]

Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry. < Lamentations 3:55 | > Lamentations 3:57 Reflection Lamentations 3:56 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not […]

Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. < Lamentations 3:56 | > Lamentations 3:58 Reflection Lamentations 3:57 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not […]

O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. < Lamentations 3:57 | > Lamentations 3:59 Reflection Lamentations 3:58 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not […]

O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. < Lamentations 3:58 | > Lamentations 3:60 Reflection Lamentations 3:59 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing lord, […]

He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old. < Lamentations 3:5 | > Lamentations 3:7 Reflection Lamentations 3:6 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. […]

Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me. < Lamentations 3:59 | > Lamentations 3:61 Reflection Lamentations 3:60 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing […]

Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me; < Lamentations 3:60 | > Lamentations 3:62 Reflection Lamentations 3:61 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By […]

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. < Lamentations 3:61 | > Lamentations 3:63 Reflection Lamentations 3:62 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words […]

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick. < Lamentations 3:62 | > Lamentations 3:64 Reflection Lamentations 3:63 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing […]

Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands. < Lamentations 3:63 | > Lamentations 3:65 Reflection Lamentations 3:64 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. […]

Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. < Lamentations 3:64 | > Lamentations 3:66 Reflection Lamentations 3:65 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing give, sorrow, heart, […]

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. < Lamentations 3:65 | > Lamentations 4:1 Reflection Lamentations 3:66 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By […]

He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. < Lamentations 3:6 | > Lamentations 3:8 Reflection Lamentations 3:7 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are […]

Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. < Lamentations 3:7 | > Lamentations 3:9 Reflection Lamentations 3:8 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. By emphasizing shout, […]

He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. < Lamentations 3:8 | > Lamentations 3:10 Reflection Lamentations 3:9 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse may be brief, but its words are not accidental. […]

How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. < Lamentations 3:66 | > Lamentations 4:2 Reflection Lamentations 4:1 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope […]

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. < Lamentations 4:9 | > Lamentations 4:11 Reflection Lamentations 4:10 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This […]

The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. < Lamentations 4:10 | > Lamentations 4:12 Reflection Lamentations 4:11 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope […]

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. < Lamentations 4:11 | > Lamentations 4:13 Reflection Lamentations 4:12 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, […]

For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her, < Lamentations 4:12 | > Lamentations 4:14 Reflection Lamentations 4:13 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. […]

They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments. < Lamentations 4:13 | > Lamentations 4:15 Reflection Lamentations 4:14 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This verse […]

They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there. < Lamentations 4:14 | > Lamentations 4:16 Reflection Lamentations 4:15 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, […]

The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders. < Lamentations 4:15 | > Lamentations 4:17 Reflection Lamentations 4:16 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope […]

As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us. < Lamentations 4:16 | > Lamentations 4:18 Reflection Lamentations 4:17 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid […]

They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. < Lamentations 4:17 | > Lamentations 4:19 Reflection Lamentations 4:18 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This […]