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Lamentations 1:3 KJV
Lamentations · chapter 1 · verse 3
Judah 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.Lamentations 1:3 · King James Version
Lamentations 1:3 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.
4The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5Her 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.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- persecutorsrâdaphto run after (usually with hostile intentH7291 →
- afflictionʻŏnîydepressionH6040 →
- captivitygâlâhto denudeH1540 →
- servitudeʻăbôdâhwork of any kindH5656 →
- dwellethyâshabproperly, to sit downH3427 →
- heathengôwya foreign nationH1471 →
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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