Lamentations 1:7 Cross References - MSTC

⁷ {Zayin} Now doth Jerusalem remember the time of her misery and disobedience, yea the joy and pleasure that she hath had in times past: seeing her people is brought down through the power of their enemy, and there is no man for to help her. Her enemies stand looking at her, and laughing her Sabbath days to scorn.

⁷ For what nation is so great that hath gods so nigh unto him as the LORD our God is nigh unto us, in all things, when we call unto him? ⁸ Yea, and what nation is so great that hath ordinances and laws so righteous, as all this law which I set before you this day?

³⁴ Either, whether God assayed to go and take him a people from among nations, through temptations and signs and wonders and through war and with a mighty hand and a stretched-out arm and with mighty terrible sights, according unto all that the LORD your God did unto you in Egypt before your eyes. ³⁵ Unto thee it was showed, that thou mightest know how that the LORD he is God and that there is none but he. ³⁶ Out of heaven he made thee hear his voice to nurture thee, and upon earth he showed thee his great fire, and thou heardest his words out of the fire. ³⁷ And because he loved thy fathers, therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out with his presence and with his mighty power of Egypt:

⁷ For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of rivers of water, of fountains and of springs that spring out both in valleys and hills: ⁸ a land of wheat and of barley, of vines, fig trees and pomegranates, a land of olive trees with oil and of honey: ⁹ a land wherein thou shalt not eat bread in scarceness, and where thou shalt lack nothing, a land whose stones are iron, and out of whose hills thou shalt dig brass.

² "Oh that I were as I was in the months by past, and in the days when God preserved me;

⁴ Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my heart by myself; for I went with the multitude, and brought them forth into the house of God, in the voice of praise and thanksgiving, among such as keep holy-day.

³ When I was in heaviness, I thought upon God: when my heart was vexed, then did I speak. Selah.

⁵ Then remembered I the times of old, and the years that were past. ⁶ I called to remembrance my song in the night, I communed with mine own heart, and sought out my spirit. ⁷ Will the LORD absent himself forever? Will he be no more intreated? ⁸ Is his mercy clean gone? Is his promise come utterly to an end for evermore? ⁹ Hath God forgotten to be gracious? Or, hath he shut up his loving-kindness in displeasure? Selah.

⁴ We are become an open shame unto our enemies, a very scorn and derision unto them that are round about us.

³ For they that led us away captive required of us then a song, and melody in our heaviness. "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" ⁴ How shall we sing the LORD's song in a strange land?

¹⁹ He showeth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and ordinances unto Israel. ²⁰ He hath not dealt so with any nation; neither have the heathen knowledge of his laws. Praise the everlasting! Hallelujah!

¹ Now will I sing my beloved friend a song of his vineyard. My beloved friend hath a vineyard in a very fruitful plenteous ground. ² This he hedged, this he walled round about, and planted it with goodly grapes. In the midst of it builded he a tower, and made a wine press therein. And afterward when he looked that it should bring him grapes, it brought forth thorns. ³ I show you now my cause, O ye Citizens of Jerusalem and whole Judah: Judge, I pray you, betwixt me and my vineyard. ⁴ What more could have been done for it, that I have not done? Wherefore than hath it given thorns, where I looked to have had grapes of it?

⁷ "Thus sayeth the LORD God of Israel: This answer shall ye give to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me for counsel, 'Behold, Pharaoh's host which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into his own land:

¹⁵ {Samekh} All they that go by thee clap their hands at thee - hissing and wagging their heads upon the daughter Jerusalem - and say, "Is this the city that men call so fair, wherein the whole land rejoiceth?" ¹⁶ {Ayin} All thine enemies gape upon thee, whispering and biting their teeth, saying, "Let us devour, for the time that we looked for is come: we have found and seen it."

¹⁷ {Pe} Wherefore yet our eyes fail us, while we look for vain help: seeing we be ever waiting upon a people that can do us no good.

⁷ and though she run after her lovers, yet shall she not get them: she shall seek them, but not find them. Then shall she say, 'Well, I will go turn again to my first husband, for at that time was I better at ease, than now.'

¹¹ Now also are there many people gathered together against thee, saying that Zion is cursed: "We shall see our lust upon her."

¹⁷ Then he came to himself and said, 'How many hired servants at my father's have bread enough, and I die for hunger.

²⁵ But Abraham said unto him, 'Son remember, that thou in thy lifetime receivedst thy pleasure, and contrariwise, Lazarus pain. Now therefore is he comforted, and thou art punished.