Lamentations Cross References - Ottley

²⁶ And the coffers of your ornaments shall mourn, and thou shalt be left alone, and shalt be trodden into the earth.

¹² How is Lucifer, that riseth early, fallen out of heaven! he is crushed into the earth, that sent forth unto all the nations.

² The city is filled with men shouting; thy smitten ones are not smitten with the sword, nor thy dead men dead in war.

¹ Come down, sit upon the ground, virgin daughter of Babylon; enter into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldaeans, for no longer shalt thou be any more called tender and delicate. ² Take a millstone, grind meal, take off thy covering, uncover thy grey hairs, make bare the legs, pass through rivers. ³ Thy shame shall be uncovered, thy reproaches shall appear; I will do justice upon thee, no longer will I deliver thee over unto men, ⁴ Saith thy deliverer, the Lord of Hosts, his name is the Holy One of Israel. ⁵ Sit down in amazement, enter into the darkness, daughter of the Chaldaeans: no longer shalt thou be called the strength of a kingdom. ⁶ I was provoked at my people, thou defiledst mine inheritance: I gave (them) into thine hand, and thou showedst them no mercy; thou didst make the yoke of the elder very heavy. ⁷ And thou saidst, I shall be a princess for ever; thou perceivedst not this in thy heart, neither didst remember the last things. ⁸ But now hear this, delicate one, that sittest, that art confident, that sayest in thine heart, I am, and there is none other; I shall not sit as a widow, nor shall I come to know bereavement. ⁹ But now shall there come suddenly these two things in one day, childlessness and widowhood shall come suddenly upon thee in thy witchcraft; in the strength of thy enchantments exceeding greatly, ¹⁰ In the hope of thy wickedness; for thou saidst, I am, and there is no other: learn thou, that the understanding of these things and thy harlotry shall be thy shame: and thou saidst in thine heart, I am, and there is no other. ¹¹ And there shall come upon thee destruction, and thou shalt not perceive it; a pit, and thou shalt fall into it: and there shall come misery upon thee, and thou shalt not be able to be clear of it: and there shall come destruction suddenly upon thee, and thou shalt not perceive it. ¹² Stand now in thine enchantments, and thy abundant witchcraft, which thou didst learn from thy youth, (to see) if thou canst be helped: ¹³ Thou hast grown weary in thy counsels: let the astrologers of the heaven stand and save thee; let them who look on the stars declare to thee what is purposed to come upon thee. ¹⁴ Behold, all shall be burnt up as brushwood upon a fire, and they shall not deliver their soul from the flame; since thou hast coals of fire, sit thereon. ¹⁵ These shall be thy help: thou didst weary thyself in thy traffic from thy youth: each went astray by himself; but for thee shall be no salvation.

⁵ And the instruction of the Lord openeth mine ears, and I am not disobedient, nor gainsay (it).

² Shake off the dust, and arise; sit down, O Jerusalem, put off the bond from thy neck, O captive daughter of Zion.

⁷ Like beauty upon the mountains, like the feet of one bringing glad tidings of news of peace, like one that bringeth glad tidings of good things; for I will make thy salvation heard, saying to Zion, God shall reign over thee.

⁴ Fear not, because thou wast put to shame; and turn not back, because thou wast reproached; for thou shalt forget thy perpetual shame, and the reproach of thy widowhood shalt thou not remember.

¹⁸ And there was none that comforted thee from among all thy children that thou broughtest forth; and there was none that took hold of thy hand from among all thy sons whom thou didst raise up. ¹⁹ These two things are against thee; who shall grieve with thee? ruin and destruction, famine and sword: who shall comfort thee?

⁴ The earth mourneth, and the world. is destroyed; and the exalted ones of the earth do mourn. ⁵ And the earth transgresseth because of her inhabitants: because they have overstepped (the) law, and changed the ordinances of the Lord, an everlasting covenant. ⁶ Therefore shall a curse devour the earth, because the inhabitants of it have sinned; therefore shall they that dwell in the earth be poor, and few men shall be left.

⁹ Ye wealthy women, stand up, and hear my voice; ye daughters in hope, hearken to my words. ¹⁰ For the days of a year call to remembrance in pain, with hope; the vintage is consumed, the sowing is ceased, and shall no longer come. ¹¹ Be astonished, be grieved, ye confident women; strip yourselves, be bare, gird sackcloth upon your loins. ¹² And smite yourselves upon the breasts, for a field of desire, and the fruit of the vine. ¹³ The land of my people, the thorn and grass shall come up, and joy shall be removed from every dwelling. A wealthy city, ¹⁴ Desolate houses: they shall abandon the wealth of a city, and desirable houses; and the villages shall be caverns for ever, a joy of wild asses, feeding places of shepherds,

¹⁸ That we may inherit a little of thy holy mountain: our adversaries trode down thy sanctuary.

²¹ How is the faithful city Zion become a harlot! (once) full of judgment, and in her righteousness did rest; but now murderers.

⁵ And he shall come, and it shall be, every place of the mount Zion, and all that is round about her; a cloud shall shadow it by day, and like as when smoke and as a light of fire burneth by night; it shall be sheltered by all the glory (of the Lord),

⁶ Exult and rejoice, ye that dwell in Zion: for the Holy One of Israel is exalted in the midst of thee.

¹ Now will I sing for my beloved a song of my loved one for my vineyard. My beloved hath a vineyard on a hill-top, in a fertile place; ² And I set a hedge around it, and fenced it, and planted a vine of Sorek, and built a tower in the midst of it, and digged a wine-fat therein; and I waited for it to bring forth a cluster of grapes, and it brought forth thorns. ³ And now, man of Judah, and ye inhabitants of Jerusalem, judge ye betwixt me and my vineyard. ⁴ What shall I do yet for my vineyard, that I have not done for it? because I waited for it to bring forth a cluster of grapes, but it brought forth thorns.

³ Thy shame shall be uncovered, thy reproaches shall appear; I will do justice upon thee, no longer will I deliver thee over unto men,

² But your sins separate between you [[and your God,]] and because of your sins hath he turned his face away from you, not to have mercy upon you. ³ For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers in sins; and your lips have spoken transgression, and your tongue doth meditate wrong-doing. ⁴ No man speaketh righteousness, nor is there any true judgment; they trust in vanities and speak empty words; for they have conceived trouble, and bring forth transgression. ⁵ They brake the eggs of asps, and weave the web of a spider; and he that trieth to eat of their eggs, when he breaketh it he findeth wind, and in it is a basilisk. ⁶ Their web shall not be for a garment; nor shall they be clothed with their works; for their works are works of transgression. ⁷ And their feet run after wickedness, swift to shed blood, and their reasonings (are) the reasonings of fools; destruction and unhappiness is in their ways, ⁸ And a way of peace they know not, and there is no judgment in their ways; for the paths which they travel are perverted, and they know not peace. ⁹ Therefore did their judgment depart from them, and righteousness shall not take hold of them; when (they) waited for light, darkness came upon them; they waited for a shining, and walked in midnight gloom. ¹⁰ They shall grope like blind men for a wall, and as though they had no eyes shall they grope; and they shall fall at noonday as though at midnight, they shall groan as dying men: ¹¹ As a bear and as a dove together shall they go: we waited for judgment, and there is none; salvation is far removed from us. ¹² For manifold is our transgression before thee, and our sins stand forth against us; for our transgressions are in us, and our wrong doings we have learnt.

⁸ For Jerusalem is abandoned, and Judah is fallen down; and their tongues (are) with transgression, (they are) disobedient toward the Lord; wherefore now is their glory humbled.

⁴ The Lord God hear the words of Rabshakeh, with which the king of the Assyrians sent him to reproach the living God, and to reproach with the words which the Lord thy God hath heard; [and thou shalt pray to thy Lord] concerning these that are left.

¹⁷ Hearken, O Lord; look upon us, O Lord, and see the words of Sennacherib, which he hath sent to reproach the living God.

²³ Whom hast thou reproached and provoked? or against whom hast thou lift up thy voice? what, hast thou not lifted up thine eyes on high against the Holy One of Israel?

²⁹ But thy rage with which thou ragedst, and thy bitterness, have come up toward me, and I will put a muzzle on thy nose, and a bit in thy lips, and will turn thee back by the way by which thou camest.

² Ye priests, speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, comfort her, for her humbling is fulfilled, her sin is atoned for, for she hath received of the Lord's hand double of her sins.

⁷ And thou saidst, I shall be a princess for ever; thou perceivedst not this in thy heart, neither didst remember the last things.

¹¹ Humbled and unstable, thou wast not comforted; behold, I prepare for thee carbuncle for thy stone, and sapphire for thy foundations.

¹³ Therefore is my people become captive, because they know not the Lord; and is become a multitude of dead bodies, because of famine and thirst for water. ¹⁴ And Hades enlarged his appetite, and opened his mouth, continually; and her glorious, and great, and rich ones, and her pestilences, shall descend.

¹⁰ Thy city of the Holy One, Zion, is become desert; Jerusalem is become as a desert: turned to a curse ¹¹ Is the house, our holy place: and the glory which our fathers blessed is burnt with fire, and all (our) glorious things are fallen together.

¹³ For the heaven shall be wroth, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundations, because of the wrath of the anger of the Lord of Hosts, in the day when his wrath cometh upon it.

¹⁷ But they turned away backward. Be utterly ashamed, ye that trust in the graven images; that say to the molten images, Ye are our gods.

²⁵ To destroy the Assyrians from my land, and from my mountains; and they shall be trodden down, and their yoke shall be stripped from off them, and their renown shall be stripped from off their shoulders.

⁶ I was provoked at my people, thou defiledst mine inheritance: I gave (them) into thine hand, and thou showedst them no mercy; thou didst make the yoke of the elder very heavy.

⁵ But now I will declare to you what I will do to my vineyard; I will take away the hedge thereof, and it shall be plundered; and destroy the wall thereof, and it shall be trodden down;

¹⁸ Lest also it take away your covenant of death, and your hope regarding hell shall not abide: if a rushing tempest come upon you, ye shall be trodden down by it.

² Who roused up righteousness from the rising of the sun, called it to his feet, it shall go forth? he shall set it before nations, and shall astonish kings; and he shall lay their swords upon the earth, and their bows as brushwood that is cast forth.

³ (I am) full with the trodden (press); and of the nations there is no man with me; and I trode them down in wrath, and ground them down as the earth, and brought down their blood to the earth.

¹⁵ When ye stretch out your hands toward me, I will turn away mine eyes from you; and if ye multiply your petition, I will not listen to you; for your hands are full of blood.

¹¹ Therefore my belly shall sound as a harp upon Moab, and mine inward parts like a wall which thou didst newly build.

¹⁴ As a swallow, so will I cry, and as a dove, so will I rehearse it; for mine eyes have failed from looking up to the height of heaven to the Lord, who rescued me, and took away the anguish of my soul.

¹ Vision which Isaiah the son of Amoz saw against Babylon. ² Lift ye up a signal on a mountain in a plain, upraise your voice to them, be not afraid: encourage (them) in heart: open, ye rulers. ³ I marshal them, even I; they are sanctified, and I lead them; giants come to fulfil my wrath, rejoicing and proud together. ⁴ A voice of many nations upon the mountains, like (the voice) of many nations; a voice of kings and of nations gathered together. The Lord of Hosts hath commanded an armed nation ⁵ Tocome from a land afar off, from the uttermost foundation of heaven, the Lord and his armed men, to destroy the whole world. ⁶ Wail ye: for the day of the Lord is near; and a destruction shall come from God. ⁷ Therefore shall every hand be slackened, and every heart of man shall be faint: ⁸ And the old men shall be confounded, and pangs as of a travailing woman shall have hold of them; and they shall lament one with another, and shall be amazed, and shall change their face as doth a flame. ⁹ For behold, the day of the Lord cometh, and there is no healing of its wrath and anger, to make the earth desolate, and to destroy the sinners out of it. ¹⁰ For the stars of heaven, and Orion, and all the order of heaven shall not give their light; and it shall grow dark when the sun ariseth, and the moon shall not give her light. ¹¹ And I will command evils upon the whole world, even their own sins upon the wicked: and I will destroy the pride of transgressors, and will humble the pride of the arrogant. ¹² And they that are left shall be more precious than new gold; and the man shall be more precious than the stone from Ophir. ¹³ For the heaven shall be wroth, and the earth shall be shaken from her foundations, because of the wrath of the anger of the Lord of Hosts, in the day when his wrath cometh upon it. ¹⁴ And they that are left shall be as a roe that fleeth, and as a sheep that wandereth, and there shall be none that gathereth them together, for each to return to his people; and each to haste into his own land.

²² Thus saith the Lord, the God that judgeth his people, Behold, I have taken out of thine hand the cup of falling, the goblet of (my) wrath, and thou shalt no more drink it again: ²³ And I will put it into the hands of them that did thee wrong, and them that humbled thee; which said to thy soul, Bow down, that we may pass by; and thou laidest thy back even with the ground, without, for them that went by.

⁷ Therefore shall every hand be slackened, and every heart of man shall be faint: