Lamentations 1:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ Jerusalem remembers in her days of sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things that were hers in the past. When her people were captive to the power of her adversary she had no helper. Her attackers desired her and made fun of her in her destruction.

⁷ »What great nation is there, who has God so near to them? For we call on Jehovah our God for all things! ⁸ »And what great nation is there that has statutes and judgments so righteous as the law I present to you this day?

⁷ »Jehovah your God will lead you into a good land. It is a land with rivers that do not dry up. Springs and underground streams flow through the valleys and the hills. ⁸ »The land has wheat and barley, grapevines, fig trees, and pomegranates. The land has honey and olive trees for olive oil. ⁹ »The land will have enough food for you, and you will have everything you need. The land has rocks with iron ore. You will be able to mine copper ore in the mountains.

³⁴ »Has God attempted to take a nation from the middle of another nation? Has he done this by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by great terrors? Yes, and by the use of his great power! Jehovah your God did all this for you in Egypt before your very eyes! ³⁵ »This was shown to you that you might know that JEHOVAH IS GOD! THERE IS NO ONE BESIDES HIM! ³⁶ »He made you hear his voice out of heaven. That way he could instruct (teach) (correct) (discipline) you. He showed you his great fire on the earth. You heard his words from the middle of the fire. ³⁷ »He loved your fathers. Therefore he chose their descendants. In fact he watched over you and he brought you out of Egypt with his mighty power.

² »Oh, that I were as in months past, as in the days when God watched over me;

⁴ I remember these things and I pour out my heart within me. I used to go along with the crowd and lead them in procession to the house of God, with the voice of joy and thanksgiving, a multitude keeping festival.

³ I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed.

⁵ I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times. ⁶ I remember my song in the night. I consider in my own heart; my spirit diligently inquires: ⁷ Will Jehovah reject us forever? Will he be favorable no more? ⁸ Has his loving kindness vanished forever? Does his promise fail for generations? ⁹ Has God forgotten to be gracious? Has he, in anger, withheld his compassion?

⁴ We have become a disgrace to our neighbors, an object of ridicule and contempt to those around us.

³ It was there that those who had captured us demanded that we sing. Those who guarded us wanted us to entertain them. They said: »Sing a song from Zion for us!« ⁴ How could we sing Jehovah’s song in a foreign land?

¹⁹ He speaks his word to Jacob, his laws and judgments to Israel. ²⁰ He has done nothing like this for any other nation. The other nations do not know the decisions he has handed down. Praise Jehovah!

¹ Let me sing to my loved one a song of my beloved concerning his vineyard: My loved one had a vineyard on a fertile hill. ² He dug the soil all around and removed its stones. He planted it with the choicest vine. And he built a tower in the middle of it and also hewed out a wine vat in it. Then he expected it to produce good grapes, but it only produced worthless ones. ³ »Now then, you inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah, judge between my vineyard and me! ⁴ »What more could have been done for my vineyard than what I have already done for it? When I waited for it to produce good grapes, why did it produce only sour, wild grapes?

⁷ »This is what Jehovah the God of Israel says: ‘Say this to the king of Judah, who sent you to get advice from me: »Pharaoh's army has come out to help you. But it will go back to Egypt, its own land.

¹⁵ All who go by make a noise with their hands at you. They make hisses, shaking their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem. They say: »Is this the town that was the crown of everything beautiful, the joy of all the earth?« ¹⁶ All your enemies are opening their mouths wide against you. They hiss and whistle through their teeth and say: »We have made a meal of her. Certainly this is the day we have been looking for. It has come and we see it.«

¹⁷ Our eyes are still wasting away in looking for our false help. We watch for a nation unable to give salvation.

⁷ »She will follow after her lovers but she will not reach them. She will seek them, but will not find them! She will say: ‘I will return to my first husband for it was better for me then.’

¹¹ »Many nations are assembled against you! They say: ‘Let her be defiled, and let us gloat over it.’

¹⁷ »Finally it dawned on him, my father’s hired workers have more than they can eat and I am about to starve!

²⁵ »Abraham said: Remember, my son, in your lifetime you were given good things, while Lazarus got all the bad things. Now he is enjoying himself while you are in torment.