Lamentations 1:21 “People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All…”

Lamentations 1:21

People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

American Standard Version

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 proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

Geneva Bible 1599

They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

Darby Translation

They have heard that I sigh: I have no comforter: all mine enemies have heard of my calamity; they are glad that thou hast done it. Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

Young's Literal Translation

They have heard that I have sighed, There is no comforter for me, All my enemies have heard of my calamity, They have rejoiced that Thou hast done [it], Thou hast brought in the day Thou hast called, And they are like to me.

Bible in Basic English

Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

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Cross references

“have heard that”

Lamentations 1:8 Lamentations 1:16 Lamentations 1:22 Lamentations 1:2 Lamentations 1:11 Lamentations 1:12

Lamentations 1:8 · BSB

Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.

Lamentations 1:16 · BSB

For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 1:22 · BSB

Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

Lamentations 1:2 · BSB

She 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.

Lamentations 1:11 · BSB

All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

Lamentations 1:12 · BSB

Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

“they are”

Lamentations 2:15 Psalm 35:15 Jeremiah 50:11 Psalm 38:16 Jeremiah 48:27 Ezekiel 26:2

Lamentations 2:15 · BSB

All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”

Psalm 35:15 · BSB

But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Jeremiah 50:11 · BSB

“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph— you who plunder My inheritance— because you frolic like a heifer treading grain and neigh like stallions,

Psalm 38:16 · BSB

For I said, “Let them not gloat over me— those who taunt me when my foot slips.”

Jeremiah 48:27 · BSB

Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your head.

Ezekiel 26:2 · BSB

“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now that she lies in ruins I will be filled,’

“thou wilt”

Isaiah 13:1–14 Isaiah 47:1–15 Jeremiah 25:17–29 Amos 1:1–15 Jeremiah 46:1–51 Ezekiel 25:1–32

Isaiah 13:1–14 · BSB

This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:

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.

Jeremiah 25:17–29 · BSB

So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,

Amos 1:1–15 · BSB

These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the earthquake, in the days when Uzziah was king of Judah and Jeroboam son of Jehoash was king of Israel…

Jeremiah 46:1–51 · BSB

This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet

Ezekiel 25:1–32 · BSB

Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,

“the day”

Psalm 37:13 Joel 3:14

Psalm 37:13 · BSB

but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.

Joel 3:14 · BSB

Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.

“they shall”

Jeremiah 51:24 Deuteronomy 32:41–43 Jeremiah 50:15 Jeremiah 50:29 Jeremiah 50:31 Jeremiah 51:49

Jeremiah 51:24 · BSB

Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” declares the LORD.

Deuteronomy 32:41–43 · BSB

when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay those who hate Me.

Jeremiah 50:15 · BSB

Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls are torn down. Since this is the vengeance of the LORD, take out your vengeance upon her; as she has…

Jeremiah 50:29 · BSB

Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her according to her deeds; do to her as she has done. For she has defied the LORD, the Holy One of Israel.

Jeremiah 50:31 · BSB

“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will punish you.

Jeremiah 51:49 · BSB

“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.

Also

Lamentations 1:4 Jeremiah 30:16

Lamentations 1:4 · BSB

The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.

Jeremiah 30:16 · BSB

Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them— will go off into exile. Those who plundered you will be plundered, and all who raided you will be raided.

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

In context

20See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.

22Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.

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