Lamentations 1:1 “How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great am…”

Lamentations 1:1

How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

World English Bible

How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!

American Standard Version

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary!

Geneva Bible 1599

Howe doeth the citie remaine solitarie that was full of people? she is as a widowe: she that was great among the nations, and princesse among the prouinces, is made tributarie.

Darby Translation

How doth the city sit solitary [that] was full of people! She that was great among the nations is become as a widow; the princess among the provinces is become tributary!

Young's Literal Translation

How hath she sat alone, The city abounding with people! She hath been as a widow, The mighty among nations! Princes among provinces, She hath become tributary!

Bible in Basic English

See her seated by herself, the town which was full of people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow! She who was a princess among the countries has come under the yoke of forced work!

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Cross references

“How doth”

Zephaniah 2:15 Lamentations 2:1 Lamentations 4:1 Isaiah 14:12 Jeremiah 50:23 Revelation 18:16

Zephaniah 2:15 · BSB

This carefree city that dwells securely, that thinks to herself: “I am it, and there is none besides me,” what a ruin she has become, a resting place for beasts. Everyone who passes by her hisses and shakes his fist.

Lamentations 2:1 · BSB

How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

Lamentations 4:1 · BSB

How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.

Isaiah 14:12 · BSB

How you have fallen from heaven, O day star, son of the dawn! You have been cut down to the ground, O destroyer of nations.

Jeremiah 50:23 · BSB

How the hammer of the whole earth lies broken and shattered! What a horror Babylon has become among the nations!

Revelation 18:16 · BSB

saying: “Woe, woe to the great city, clothed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, adorned with gold and precious stones and pearls!

“sit”

Isaiah 3:26 Lamentations 2:10 Isaiah 47:1–15 Isaiah 52:2 Isaiah 52:7 Jeremiah 9:11

Isaiah 3:26 · BSB

And the gates of Zion will lament and mourn; destitute, she will sit on the ground.

Lamentations 2:10 · BSB

The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Isaiah 47:1–15 · BSB

“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chaldeans! For you will no longer be called tender or delicate.

Isaiah 52:2 · BSB

Shake off your dust! Rise up and sit on your throne, O Jerusalem. Remove the chains from your neck, O captive Daughter of Zion.

Isaiah 52:7 · BSB

How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of those who bring good news, who proclaim peace, who bring good tidings, who proclaim salvation, who say to Zion, “Your God reigns!”

Jeremiah 9:11 · BSB

“And I will make Jerusalem a heap of rubble, a haunt for jackals; and I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”

“full”

Isaiah 22:2 Psalm 122:4 Zechariah 8:4 Zechariah 8:5

Isaiah 22:2 · BSB

O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.

Psalm 122:4 · BSB

where the tribes go up, the tribes of the LORD, as a testimony for Israel, to give thanks to the name of the LORD.

Zechariah 8:4 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Old men and old women will again sit along the streets of Jerusalem, each with a staff in hand because of great age.

Zechariah 8:5 · BSB

And the streets of the city will be filled with boys and girls playing there.”

“as a”

Isaiah 54:4 Revelation 18:7 Isaiah 47:8 Isaiah 47:9

Isaiah 54:4 · BSB

Do not be afraid, for you will not be put to shame; do not be intimidated, for you will not be humiliated. For you will forget the shame of your youth and will remember no more the reproach of your widowhood.

Revelation 18:7 · BSB

As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’

Isaiah 47:8 · BSB

So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’

Isaiah 47:9 · BSB

These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells.

“great”

1 Kings 4:21 Ezra 4:20 2 Chronicles 9:26

1 Kings 4:21 · BSB

And Solomon reigned over all the kingdoms from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt. These kingdoms offered tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

Ezra 4:20 · BSB

And mighty kings have ruled over Jerusalem and exercised authority over the whole region west of the Euphrates; and tribute, duty, and toll were paid to them.

2 Chronicles 9:26 · BSB

He reigned over all the kings from the Euphrates to the land of the Philistines, as far as the border of Egypt.

“how is”

Lamentations 5:16 2 Kings 23:35 2 Kings 23:33 Nehemiah 5:4 Nehemiah 9:37

Lamentations 5:16 · BSB

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

2 Kings 23:35 · BSB

So Jehoiakim paid the silver and gold to Pharaoh Neco, but to meet Pharaoh’s demand he taxed the land and exacted the silver and the gold from the people, each according to his wealth.

2 Kings 23:33 · BSB

And Pharaoh Neco imprisoned Jehoahaz at Riblah in the land of Hamath so that he could not reign in Jerusalem, and he imposed on Judah a levy of a hundred talents of silver and a talent of gold.

Nehemiah 5:4 · BSB

Still others were saying, “We have borrowed money to pay the king’s tax on our fields and vineyards.

Nehemiah 9:37 · BSB

Its abundant harvest goes to the kings You have set over us because of our sins. And they rule over our bodies and our livestock as they please. We are in great distress.

Also

Jeremiah 40:9

Jeremiah 40:9 · BSB

Gedaliah son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, swore an oath to them and their men, assuring them, “Do not be afraid to serve the Chaldeans. Live in the land and serve the king of Babylon, and it will go well with you.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Read Lamentations 1