Lamentations 1:9 “Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her d…”

Lamentations 1:9

Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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.

World English Bible

Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, LORD, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”

American Standard Version

Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; Therefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Geneva Bible 1599

Her filthinesse is in her skirts: she remembred not her last ende, therefore she came downe wonderfully: she had no comforter: O Lord, behold mine affliction: for the enemie is proud.

Darby Translation

Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath magnified himself.

Young's Literal Translation

Her uncleanness [is] in her skirts, She hath not remembered her latter end, And she cometh down wonderfully, There is no comforter for her. See, O Jehovah, mine affliction, For exerted himself hath an enemy.

Bible in Basic English

In her skirts were her unclean ways; she gave no thought to her end; and her fall has been a wonder; she has no comforter: see her sorrow, O Lord; for the attacker is lifted up.

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Cross references

“filthiness”

Lamentations 1:17 Jeremiah 2:34 Jeremiah 13:27 Ezekiel 24:12 Ezekiel 24:13

Lamentations 1:17 · BSB

Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

Jeremiah 2:34 · BSB

Moreover, your skirts are stained with the blood of the innocent poor, though you did not find them breaking in. But in spite of all these things

Jeremiah 13:27 · BSB

Your adulteries and lustful neighings, your shameless prostitution on the hills and in the fields— I have seen your detestable acts. Woe to you, O Jerusalem! How long will you remain unclean?”

Ezekiel 24:12 · BSB

It has frustrated every effort; its thick rust has not been removed, even by the fire.

Ezekiel 24:13 · BSB

Because of the indecency of your uncleanness I tried to cleanse you, but you would not be purified from your filthiness. You will not be pure again until My wrath against you has subsided.

“she remembereth”

Deuteronomy 32:29 Isaiah 47:7 Jeremiah 5:31 1 Peter 4:17

Deuteronomy 32:29 · BSB

If only they were wise, they would understand it; they would comprehend their fate.

Isaiah 47:7 · BSB

You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome.

Jeremiah 5:31 · BSB

The prophets prophesy falsely, and the priests rule by their own authority. My people love it so, but what will you do in the end?

1 Peter 4:17 · BSB

For it is time for judgment to begin with the family of God; and if it begins with us, what will the outcome be for those who disobey the gospel of God?

“came”

Isaiah 3:8 Lamentations 4:1 Lamentations 1:1 Jeremiah 13:17 Jeremiah 13:18

Isaiah 3:8 · BSB

For Jerusalem has stumbled and Judah has fallen because they spoke and acted against the LORD, defying His glorious presence.

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.

Lamentations 1:1 · BSB

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.

Jeremiah 13:17 · BSB

But if you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride. My eyes will overflow with tears, because the LORD’s flock has been taken captive.

Jeremiah 13:18 · BSB

Say to the king and to the queen mother: “Take a lowly seat, for your glorious crowns have fallen from your heads.”

“she had”

Ecclesiastes 4:1 Lamentations 1:21 Lamentations 2:13 Isaiah 40:2 Isaiah 54:11 Hosea 2:14

Ecclesiastes 4:1 · BSB

Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

Lamentations 1:21 · BSB

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.

Lamentations 2:13 · BSB

What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?

Isaiah 40:2 · BSB

“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”

Isaiah 54:11 · BSB

“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

Hosea 2:14 · BSB

“Therefore, behold, I will allure her and lead her to the wilderness, and speak to her tenderly.

“behold”

Psalm 25:18 Psalm 119:153 Exodus 3:7 Exodus 3:17 Exodus 4:31 Deuteronomy 26:7

Psalm 25:18 · BSB

Consider my affliction and trouble, and take away all my sins.

Psalm 119:153 · BSB

Look upon my affliction and rescue me, for I have not forgotten Your law.

Exodus 3:7 · BSB

The LORD said, “I have indeed seen the affliction of My people in Egypt. I have heard them crying out because of their oppressors, and I am aware of their sufferings.

Exodus 3:17 · BSB

And I have promised to bring you up out of your affliction in Egypt, into the land of the Canaanites, Hittites, Amorites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites—a land flowing with milk and honey.’

Exodus 4:31 · BSB

and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and worshiped.

Deuteronomy 26:7 · BSB

So we called out to the LORD, the God of our fathers; and the LORD heard our voice and saw our affliction, toil, and oppression.

“for”

Jeremiah 48:26 Zephaniah 2:10 2 Thessalonians 2:4–8 Deuteronomy 32:27 Psalm 140:8 Isaiah 37:4

Jeremiah 48:26 · BSB

“Make him drunk, because he has magnified himself against the LORD; so Moab will wallow in his own vomit, and he will also become a laughingstock.

Zephaniah 2:10 · BSB

This they shall have in return for their pride, for taunting and mocking the people of the LORD of Hosts.

2 Thessalonians 2:4–8 · BSB

He will oppose and exalt himself above every so-called god or object of worship. So he will seat himself in the temple of God, proclaiming himself to be God.

Deuteronomy 32:27 · BSB

if I had not dreaded the taunt of the enemy, lest their adversaries misunderstand and say: ‘Our own hand has prevailed; it was not the LORD who did all this.’”

Psalm 140:8 · BSB

Grant not, O LORD, the desires of the wicked; do not promote their evil plans, lest they be exalted. Selah

Isaiah 37:4 · BSB

Perhaps the LORD your God will hear the words of the Rabshakeh, whom his master the king of Assyria has sent to defy the living God, and He will rebuke him for the words that the LORD your God has heard. Therefore lift u…

Also

Jeremiah 16:7

Jeremiah 16:7 · BSB

No food will be offered to comfort those who mourn the dead; not even a cup of consolation will be given for the loss of a father or mother.

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

In context

8Jerusalem 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.

10The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

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