Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
My
While they sought food to
King James Version
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
Holman Bible
ק Qof
but they betrayed me.
My priests and elders
perished in the city
while searching for food
to keep themselves alive.
International Standard Version
I called out to my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders have died within the city while looking for something to eat to keep themselves alive.
American Standard Version
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
Amplified
“I [Jerusalem] called to my lovers (political allies), but they deceived me.
My priests and my elders perished in the city
While they looked for food to restore their strength.
Bible in Basic English
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
Darby Translation
I called for my lovers, they have deceived me; my priests and mine elders have expired in the city, while they sought them food to revive their soul.
Julia Smith Translation
I called to those loving me, they deceived me: my priests and my old men expired in the city, for they sought food for them, and they will turn back their souls.
King James 2000
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders died in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I have called to my lovers, they themselves deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city when they sought food for themselves to revive their life.
Modern King James verseion
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and my elders expired in the city while they sought food for them to bring back their life.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
{Kuf} I called for my lovers, but they beguiled me; for my Priests and counselors, but they perished: even while they sought for meat, to save their lives.
NET Bible
(Qof) I called for my lovers, but they had deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city. Truly they had searched for food to keep themselves alive.
New Heart English Bible
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders perished in the city, while they searched for food to refresh their souls.
The Emphasized Bible
I called to my lovers, they, deceived me, My priests and mine elders, in the city, have breathed their last, - for they sought them food, that they might bring back their life.
Webster
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders resigned their breath in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.
World English Bible
I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
Youngs Literal Translation
I called for my lovers, they -- they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.
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Word Count of 19 Translations in Lamentations 1:19
Verse Info
Context Readings
The Desolate City
18
For I have
Hear now, all peoples,
And
Have gone into captivity.
My
While they sought food to
My
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very
In the street the sword
In the house it is like death.
Names
Cross References
Lamentations 1:2
And her tears are on her cheeks;
She has none to comfort her
Among all her
All her friends have
They have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:11
They have given their precious things for food
To
“See, O Lord, and look,
For I am
Lamentations 2:20
With
Should women
The little ones who were
Should
In the sanctuary of the Lord?
Job 19:13-19
And my
Jeremiah 2:28
Which you made for yourself?
Let them arise, if they can
In the time of your
For
Are your gods, O Judah.
Jeremiah 14:15-18
Therefore thus says the Lord concerning the prophets who are prophesying in My name, although it was not I who sent them—yet they keep saying, ‘There will be no sword or famine in this land’—
Jeremiah 23:11-15
Even in My house I have found their wickedness,” declares the Lord.
Jeremiah 27:13-15
Why will you
Jeremiah 30:14
They do not seek you;
For I have
With the
Because your
And your
Jeremiah 37:7-9
“Thus says the Lord God of Israel, ‘
Lamentations 4:7-9
They were whiter than milk;
They were more ruddy in
Their polishing was like
Lamentations 4:17
Looking for
In our watching we have watched
For a
Lamentations 5:12