Lamentations 1:19

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.

I called {H7121} for my lovers {H157}, but they deceived {H7411} me: my priests {H3548} and mine elders {H2205} gave up the ghost {H1478} in the city {H5892}, while they sought {H1245} their meat {H400} to relieve {H7725} their souls {H5315}.

"I called out to my lovers, but they let me down. My cohanim and leaders perished in the city, as they were seeking food to keep themselves alive.

I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

I called for my lovers, butthey deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.

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Cross-References

  • Lamentations 2:20 (4 votes)

    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 1:2 (4 votes)

    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 1:11 (4 votes)

    All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

  • Job 19:13 (3 votes)

    He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.

  • Job 19:19 (3 votes)

    All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

  • Lamentations 4:7 (2 votes)

    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 4:9 (2 votes)

    [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.