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Lamentations 1:1 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 1 · verse 1
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!Lamentations 1:1 · King James Version
Lamentations 1:1 in context
1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- provincesmᵉdîynâhproperly, a judgeshipH4082 →
- solitarybâdâdseparateH910 →
- princesssârâha mistressH8282 →
- nationsgôwya foreign nationH1471 →
- peopleʻama peopleH5971 →
- widowʼalmânâha widowH490 →
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Those that have any disposition to weep with those that weep, one would think, should scarcely be able to refrain from tears at the reading of these verses, so very pathetic are the lamentations here. I. The miseries of Jerusalem are here complained of as very pressing and by many circumstances very much aggravated.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-11