Lamentations

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. < Lamentations 4:18 | > Lamentations 4:20 Reflection Lamentations 4:19 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This […]

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! < Lamentations 4:1 | > Lamentations 4:3 Reflection Lamentations 4:2 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This […]

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. < Lamentations 4:19 | > Lamentations 4:21 Reflection Lamentations 4:20 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and […]

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. < Lamentations 4:20 | > Lamentations 4:22 Reflection Lamentations 4:21 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to […]

The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins. < Lamentations 4:21 | > Lamentations 5:1 Reflection Lamentations 4:22 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws […]

Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. < Lamentations 4:2 | > Lamentations 4:4 Reflection Lamentations 4:3 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, […]

The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it unto them. < Lamentations 4:3 | > Lamentations 4:5 Reflection Lamentations 4:4 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope […]

They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. < Lamentations 4:4 | > Lamentations 4:6 Reflection Lamentations 4:5 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 […]

For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her. < Lamentations 4:5 | > Lamentations 4:7 Reflection Lamentations 4:6 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often […]

Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire: < Lamentations 4:6 | > Lamentations 4:8 Reflection Lamentations 4:7 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid devastation. This […]

Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. < Lamentations 4:7 | > Lamentations 4:9 Reflection Lamentations 4:8 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, […]

They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of the fruits of the field. < Lamentations 4:8 | > Lamentations 4:10 Reflection Lamentations 4:9 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, […]

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach. < Lamentations 4:22 | > Lamentations 5:2 Reflection Lamentations 5:1 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 […]

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. < Lamentations 5:9 | > Lamentations 5:11 Reflection Lamentations 5:10 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 […]

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah. < Lamentations 5:10 | > Lamentations 5:12 Reflection Lamentations 5:11 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. […]

Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. < Lamentations 5:11 | > Lamentations 5:13 Reflection Lamentations 5:12 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. […]

They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. < Lamentations 5:12 | > Lamentations 5:14 Reflection Lamentations 5:13 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. […]

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick. < Lamentations 5:13 | > Lamentations 5:15 Reflection Lamentations 5:14 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 joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning. < Lamentations 5:14 | > Lamentations 5:16 Reflection Lamentations 5:15 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 crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned! < Lamentations 5:15 | > Lamentations 5:17 Reflection Lamentations 5:16 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. […]

For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim. < Lamentations 5:16 | > Lamentations 5:18 Reflection Lamentations 5:17 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 […]

Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it. < Lamentations 5:17 | > Lamentations 5:19 Reflection Lamentations 5:18 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, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation. < Lamentations 5:18 | > Lamentations 5:20 Reflection Lamentations 5:19 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 […]

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens. < Lamentations 5:1 | > Lamentations 5:3 Reflection Lamentations 5:2 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 inheritance, turned, […]

Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time? < Lamentations 5:19 | > Lamentations 5:21 Reflection Lamentations 5:20 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 […]

Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. < Lamentations 5:20 | > Lamentations 5:22 Reflection Lamentations 5:21 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 […]

But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. < Lamentations 5:21 Reflection Lamentations 5:22 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 hast, utterly, rejected, very, […]

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows. < Lamentations 5:2 | > Lamentations 5:4 Reflection Lamentations 5:3 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 orphans, fatherless, […]

We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. < Lamentations 5:3 | > Lamentations 5:5 Reflection Lamentations 5:4 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 […]

Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest. < Lamentations 5:4 | > Lamentations 5:6 Reflection Lamentations 5:5 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 necks, […]