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Lamentations selected verses
Lamentations: Selected Verses
- When thou hast made an end of reading this book, that thou shalt bind a stone to it, and cast it into the midst of Euphrates. 0:0
- Jerusalem hath grievously sinned ... they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. 1:8
- Her filthiness is in her skirts. 1:9
- The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things. 1:10
- The LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. 1:15
- Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman. 1:17
- The Lord ... hath polluted the kingdom. 2:2
- The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied. 2:2
- He hath bent his bow like an enemy ... and slew all that were pleasant to the eye ... he poured out his fury like fire. 2:4
- The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel. 2:5
- The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 2:10
- My bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth. 2:11
- Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee. 2:14
- All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head. 2:15
- All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up. 2:16
- Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? . 2:20
- Thou hast killed, and not pitied. 2:21
- In the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained. 2:22
- When I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. 3:7
- He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 3:13
- He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones. 3:16
- Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? . 3:38
- Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through. 3:44
- Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones. 4:3
- The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat. 4:10
- Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz ... thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. 4:21