New International Version (© 2011) All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. "Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised."King James Bible All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.American Standard Version All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.Young's Literal Translation All her people are sighing -- seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.Lamentations 1:11 Additional Translations
Clarke's Commentary on the BibleThey have given their pleasant things - Jerusalem is compared to a woman brought into great straits, who parts with her jewels and trinkets in order to purchase by them the necessaries of life. Treasury of Scripture Knowledge seek Lamentations 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city... Lamentations 2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city... Lamentations 4:4-10 The tongue of the sucking child sticks to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them... Deuteronomy 28:52-57 And he shall besiege you in all your gates, until your high and fenced walls come down, wherein you trusted, throughout all your land... 2 Kings 6:25 And there was a great famine in Samaria: and, behold, they besieged it, until an ass's head was sold for fourscore pieces of silver... Jeremiah 19:9 And I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters... Jeremiah 38:9 My lord the king, these men have done evil in all that they have done to Jeremiah the prophet, whom they have cast into the dungeon... Jeremiah 52:6 And in the fourth month, in the ninth day of the month, the famine was sore in the city... Ezekiel 4:15-17 Then he said to me, See, I have given you cow's dung for man's dung, and you shall prepare your bread therewith... Ezekiel 5:16,17 When I shall send on them the evil arrows of famine, which shall be for their destruction, and which I will send to destroy you... relieve the soul. Heb. make the soul to come again 1 Samuel 30:11,12 And they found an Egyptian in the field, and brought him to David, and gave him bread, and he did eat; and they made him drink water... see Lamentations 1:9,20 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD... Lamentations 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long?... Job 40:4 Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer you? I will lay my hand on my mouth. Psalm 25:15-19 My eyes are ever toward the LORD; for he shall pluck my feet out of the net... Lamentations 1:11 Parallel Commentaries
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1 Samuel 30:12 part of a cake of pressed figs and two cakes of raisins. He ate and was revived, for he had not eaten any food or drunk any water for three days and three nights. Jeremiah 15:19 Therefore this is what the LORD says: "If you repent, I will restore you that you may serve me; if you utter worthy, not worthless, words, you will be my spokesman. Let this people turn to you, but you must not turn to them. Jeremiah 38:9 "My lord the king, these men have acted wickedly in all they have done to Jeremiah the prophet. They have thrown him into a cistern, where he will starve to death when there is no longer any bread in the city." Jeremiah 52:6 By the ninth day of the fourth month the famine in the city had become so severe that there was no food for the people to eat. Lamentations 1:8 Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away. Lamentations 1:19 "I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
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