Old Testament

Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them. < Lamentations 1:16 | > Lamentations 1:18 Reflection Lamentations 1:17 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws […]

The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. < Lamentations 1:17 | > Lamentations 1:19 Reflection Lamentations 1:18 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, […]

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. < Lamentations 1:18 | > Lamentations 1:20 Reflection Lamentations 1:19 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, […]

She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. < Lamentations 1:1 | > Lamentations 1:3 Reflection Lamentations 1:2 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture […]

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. < Lamentations 1:19 | > Lamentations 1:21 Reflection Lamentations 1:20 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention […]

They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. < Lamentations 1:20 | > Lamentations 1:22 Reflection Lamentations 1:21 sits […]

Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. < Lamentations 1:21 | > Lamentations 2:1 Reflection Lamentations 1:22 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, […]

Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. < Lamentations 1:2 | > Lamentations 1:4 Reflection Lamentations 1:3 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, […]

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. < Lamentations 1:3 | > Lamentations 1:5 Reflection Lamentations 1:4 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, […]

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. < Lamentations 1:4 | > Lamentations 1:6 Reflection Lamentations 1:5 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, […]

And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. < Lamentations 1:5 | > Lamentations 1:7 Reflection Lamentations 1:6 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, […]

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. < Lamentations 1:6 | > Lamentations […]

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. < Lamentations 1:7 | > Lamentations 1:9 Reflection Lamentations 1:8 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to grief, confession, mercy, and hope amid […]

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. < Lamentations 1:8 | > Lamentations 1:10 Reflection Lamentations 1:9 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to […]

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! < Lamentations 1:22 | > Lamentations 2:2 Reflection Lamentations 2:1 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, […]

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. < Lamentations 2:9 | > Lamentations 2:11 Reflection Lamentations 2:10 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over […]

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. < Lamentations 2:10 | > Lamentations 2:12 Reflection Lamentations 2:11 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over […]

They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom. < Lamentations 2:11 | > Lamentations 2:13 Reflection Lamentations 2:12 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention to […]

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee? < Lamentations 2:12 | > Lamentations 2:14 […]

Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. < Lamentations 2:13 | > Lamentations 2:15 Reflection Lamentations 2:14 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often draws attention […]

All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? < Lamentations 2:14 | > Lamentations 2:16 Reflection Lamentations 2:15 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, […]

All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. < Lamentations 2:15 | > Lamentations 2:17 Reflection Lamentations 2:16 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, […]

The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. < Lamentations 2:16 | > […]

Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease. < Lamentations 2:17 | > Lamentations 2:19 Reflection Lamentations 2:18 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where Scripture often […]

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street. < Lamentations 2:18 | > Lamentations 2:20 Reflection […]

The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. < Lamentations 2:1 | > Lamentations 2:3 Reflection Lamentations […]

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? < Lamentations 2:19 | > Lamentations 2:21 Reflection Lamentations 2:20 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where […]

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied. < Lamentations 2:20 | > Lamentations 2:22 Reflection Lamentations 2:21 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over […]

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD‘S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. < Lamentations 2:21 | > Lamentations 3:1 Reflection Lamentations 2:22 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where […]

He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about. < Lamentations 2:2 | > Lamentations 2:4 Reflection Lamentations 2:3 sits within Lamentations, poetic lament over Jerusalem, where […]