Lamentations 1:5

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Lamentations 1:5

Her adversaries have become her masters,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her transgressions;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives before the adversary.

Psalm 90:7-8

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

Jeremiah 30:14-15

‘All your lovers have forgotten you,
They do not seek you;
For I have wounded you with the wound of an enemy,
With the punishment of a cruel one,
Because your iniquity is great
And your sins are numerous.

Jeremiah 39:9

As for the rest of the people who were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to him and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried them into exile in Babylon.

Ezekiel 8:17-18

He said to me, “Do you see this, son of man? Is it too light a thing for the house of Judah to commit the abominations which they have committed here, that they have filled the land with violence and provoked Me repeatedly? For behold, they are putting the twig to their nose.

Ezekiel 9:9

Then He said to me, “The iniquity of the house of Israel and Judah is very, very great, and the land is filled with blood and the city is full of perversion; for they say, ‘The Lord has forsaken the land, and the Lord does not see!’

Leviticus 26:15-46

if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

Deuteronomy 4:25-27

“When you become the father of children and children’s children and have remained long in the land, and act corruptly, and make an idol in the form of anything, and do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord your God so as to provoke Him to anger,

Deuteronomy 28:15-68

“But it shall come about, if you do not obey the Lord your God, to observe to do all His commandments and His statutes with which I charge you today, that all these curses will come upon you and overtake you:

Deuteronomy 29:18-28

so that there will not be among you a man or woman, or family or tribe, whose heart turns away today from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations; that there will not be among you a root bearing poisonous fruit and wormwood.

Deuteronomy 31:16-18

The Lord said to Moses, “Behold, you are about to lie down with your fathers; and this people will arise and play the harlot with the strange gods of the land, into the midst of which they are going, and will forsake Me and break My covenant which I have made with them.

Deuteronomy 31:29

For I know that after my death you will act corruptly and turn from the way which I have commanded you; and evil will befall you in the latter days, for you will do that which is evil in the sight of the Lord, provoking Him to anger with the work of your hands.”

Deuteronomy 32:15-27

“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—
Then he forsook God who made him,
And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

2 Chronicles 36:14-16

Furthermore, all the officials of the priests and the people were very unfaithful following all the abominations of the nations; and they defiled the house of the Lord which He had sanctified in Jerusalem.

Nehemiah 9:33-34

“However, You are just in all that has come upon us;
For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

Psalm 80:6

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

Psalm 89:42

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Isaiah 63:18

Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while,
Our adversaries have trodden it down.

Jeremiah 5:3-9

O Lord, do not Your eyes look for truth?
You have smitten them,
But they did not weaken;
You have consumed them,
But they refused to take correction.
They have made their faces harder than rock;
They have refused to repent.

Jeremiah 5:29

‘Shall I not punish these people?’ declares the Lord,
‘On a nation such as this
Shall I not avenge Myself?’

Jeremiah 12:7

“I have forsaken My house,
I have abandoned My inheritance;
I have given the beloved of My soul
Into the hand of her enemies.

Jeremiah 23:14

“Also among the prophets of Jerusalem I have seen a horrible thing:
The committing of adultery and walking in falsehood;
And they strengthen the hands of evildoers,
So that no one has turned back from his wickedness.
All of them have become to Me like Sodom,
And her inhabitants like Gomorrah.

Jeremiah 44:21-22

“As for the smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your forefathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord remember them and did not all this come into His mind?

Jeremiah 52:27-30

Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into exile from its land.

Lamentations 1:18

“The Lord is righteous;
For I have rebelled against His command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my pain;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 2:17

The Lord has done what He purposed;
He has accomplished His word
Which He commanded from days of old.
He has thrown down without sparing,
And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you;
He has exalted the might of your adversaries.

Lamentations 3:39-43

Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?

Lamentations 3:46

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Ezekiel 22:24-31

“Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’

Daniel 9:7-16

“Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us open shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.

Micah 3:9-12

Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And twist everything that is straight,

Micah 7:8-10

Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy.
Though I fall I will rise;
Though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.

Zephaniah 3:1-8

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
The tyrannical city!

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Lamentations 1:5

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.

Adversaries

For

Her children

Jeremiah 39:9

Jeremiah 52:27

General references

Deuteronomy 28:44

Bible References

Adversaries

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

I will set My face against you so that you will be struck down before your enemies; and those who hate you will rule over you, and you will flee when no one is pursuing you.

The alien who is among you shall rise above you higher and higher, but you will go down lower and lower.

You make us an object of contention to our neighbors,
And our enemies laugh among themselves.

You have exalted the right hand of his adversaries;
You have made all his enemies rejoice.

Your holy people possessed Your sanctuary for a little while,
Our adversaries have trodden it down.

“I have forsaken My house,
I have abandoned My inheritance;
I have given the beloved of My soul
Into the hand of her enemies.

Do not rejoice over me, O my enemy.

Though I fall I will rise;
Though I dwell in darkness, the Lord is a light for me.

For

“The Lord is righteous;
For I have rebelled against His command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Offer complaint in view of his sins?

if, instead, you reject My statutes, and if your soul abhors My ordinances so as not to carry out all My commandments, and so break My covenant,

“But Jeshurun grew fat and kicked—
You are grown fat, thick, and sleek—

Then he forsook God who made him,

And scorned the Rock of his salvation.

“However, You are just in all that has come upon us;
For You have dealt faithfully, but we have acted wickedly.

For we have been consumed by Your anger
And by Your wrath we have been dismayed.

“As for the

smoking sacrifices that you burned in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your forefathers, your kings and your princes, and the people of the land, did not the Lord

remember them and did not all this come into His mind?

“Son of man, say to her, ‘You are a land that is not cleansed or rained on in the day of indignation.’

“Righteousness belongs to You, O Lord, but to us

open shame, as it is this day—to the men of Judah, the inhabitants of Jerusalem and all Israel, those who are nearby and those who are far away in all the countries to which You have driven them, because of their unfaithful deeds which they have committed against You.

Now hear this, heads of the house of Jacob
And rulers of the house of Israel,
Who abhor justice
And twist everything that is straight,

Woe to her who is rebellious and defiled,
The tyrannical city!

Her children

As for the rest of the people who were left in the city, the

deserters who had gone over to him and the rest of the people who remained, Nebuzaradan the captain of the bodyguard carried them into exile in Babylon.

Then the king of Babylon struck them down and put them to death at Riblah in the land of Hamath. So Judah was led away into exile from its land.

General references

He shall lend to you, but you will not lend to him; he shall be the head, and you will be the tail.