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Lamentations 1:8

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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.

Jerusalem {H3389} hath grievously {H2399} sinned {H2398}; therefore she is removed {H5206}: all that honoured {H3513} her despise {H2107} her, because they have seen {H7200} her nakedness {H6172}: yea, she sigheth {H584}, and turneth {H7725} backward {H268}.

Yerushalayim sinned grievously; therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her now despise her, because they have seen her naked. She herself also moans and turns her face away.

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.

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

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Cross-References

  • Lamentations 1:20 (5 votes)

    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 1:22 (5 votes)

    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.

  • Isaiah 59:2 (5 votes)

    But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid [his] face from you, that he will not hear.

  • Isaiah 59:13 (5 votes)

    In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

  • Lamentations 1:4 (3 votes)

    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 1:5 (3 votes)

    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 1:11 (3 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.