Lamentations 5:1 Cross References - BBE

¹ Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame.

³ They said to me, The small band of Jews now living there in the land are in great trouble and shame: the wall of Jerusalem has been broken down, and its doorways burned with fire.

⁸ Keep in mind, O Lord, the order you gave your servant Moses, saying, If you do wrong I will send you wandering among the peoples:

⁴ Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners:

⁷ O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

⁹ O keep in mind that you made me out of earth; and will you send me back again to dust?

¹³ You have made us to be looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and shamed by those who are round about us. ¹⁴ Our name is a word of shame among the nations, a sign for the shaking of heads among the peoples. ¹⁵ My downfall is ever before me, and I am covered with the shame of my face; ¹⁶ Because of the voice of him who says sharp and bitter words; because of the hater and him who is the instrument of punishment.

¹⁰ O God, how long will those who are against us say cruel things? will the hater go on looking down on your name for ever? ¹¹ Why are you keeping back your hand, and covering your right hand in your robe?

⁴ We are looked down on by our neighbours, we are laughed at and made sport of by those who are round us.

¹² And give punishment seven times over into the breast of our neighbours for the bitter words which they have said against you, O Lord.

⁵⁰ Keep in mind, O Lord, the shame of your servants, and how the bitter words of all the people have come into my heart; ⁵¹ The bitter words of your haters, O Lord, shaming the footsteps of your king.

³ Have mercy on us, O Lord, have mercy on us: for all men are looking down on us. ⁴ For long enough have men of pride made sport of our soul.

¹⁵ O Lord, you have knowledge: keep me in mind and come to my help, and give their right reward to those who are attacking me; take me not away, for you are slow to be angry: see how I have undergone shame because of you from all those who make little of your word;

²⁰ See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

¹⁵ All who go by make a noise with their hands at you; they make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, and saying, Is this the town which was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?

²⁰ Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

¹⁹ Keep in mind my trouble and my wandering, the bitter root and the poison.

⁶¹ Their bitter words have come to your ears, O Lord, and all their designs against me;

² O Lord, word of you has come to my ears; I have seen your work, O Lord; when the years come near make it clear; in wrath keep mercy in mind.

⁴² And he said, Jesus, keep me in mind when you come in your kingdom.