Lamentations 5 Cross References - Ottley

⁷ Your land is desolate, your cities are burnt with fire; your country, strangers devour it before your face, and it has been desolated, ruined by stranger peoples.

¹⁷ And they that are spoiled shall graze as bulls, and the waste places of them that are taken away shall lambs eat.

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

¹ Now behold, the ruler, the Lord of Hosts, will take away from Judah and from Jerusalem him that is strong and her that is strong, the strength of bread and the strength of water,

¹ Ah, rebel children, thus saith the Lord: ye took counsel, and not through me, and made agreements, not through my spirit, to add sins upon sins: ² They that walk to go down into Egypt, but they asked not me; that they might be helped by Pharaoh, and sheltered by the Egyptians.

² For Pharaoh shall be your shelter to your shame, and to them that trust in Egypt a reproach.

⁴ For there are in Tanis chieftains, evil messengers: ⁵ In vain shall they weary themselves with a people that shall not profit them, neither for help nor for profit, but for shame and reproach. ⁶ The vision of the fourfooted beasts that are in the wilderness. ¶ Amid the affliction and the straitening, a lion, and a lion's whelp: thence also serpents, and the offspring of flying serpents; men who brought their wealth upon asses and camels to a nation which shall not profit them [for help, but for shame and reproach].

¹ Ah, they that go down into Egypt for help; that trust in horses and in chariots, for they are many, and in horses, they are a great multitude; and trusted not in the Holy One of Israel, and sought not God. ² And, wise himself, he brought evils upon them; and his word shall not be set at nought; and he shall rise up against the houses of wicked men, and against their vain hope, ³ An Egyptian, a man, and not a god: the flesh of horses, and there is no help (in them); but the Lord shall set his hand against them, and they that (come to) help shall weary themselves, and all shall perish together.

⁹ And didst multiply thine adultery with them, and madest many them that were far off from thee, and didst send envoys beyond thy borders, and turnedst away, and wert abased even to hell.

¹³ Even from the beginning, and there is none that delivereth out of my hands: I will do it, and who shall turn it back?

¹⁶ And they shall dash their children down before their face, and plunder their houses, and take possession of their wives.

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.

² Take a millstone, grind meal, take off thy covering, uncover thy grey hairs, make bare the legs, pass through rivers.

⁶ Not such a fast as this do I choose, saith the Lord; but loose every bond of iniquity, unloose the knots of oppressive compacts, send forth the broken in forgiveness and tear asunder every unjust writing:

² Giant, and strong man, and man of war, and judge, and prophet, and diviner, and elder, ³ And captain of fifty, and wonderful counsellor, and skilful artificer, and understanding listener,

⁷ The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all that are joyful in heart shall groan. ⁸ Ceased is the joy of tabrets, ceased is the arrogance and wealth of the wicked, ceased the voice of the harp. ⁹ They are ashamed, they drink not wine; the strong drink becometh bitter to them that drink. ¹⁰ Every city is made desolate; it shall shut up the house, that none come in. ¹¹ Wail, for the wine, everywhere; ceased is all joy of the land,

⁹ And the shame of their face is risen up against them; and they have proclaimed their sin as of Sodom, and made it plain. Woe unto their soul! for they have counselled evil counsel against themselves,: ¹⁰ Saying, Let us bind the just, for he is of ill service to us: therefore shall they eat the fruit of their works. ¹¹ Woe to the transgressor! evil shall befall him according to the works of his hands.

⁵ Why should ye be yet smitten, (for) transgressing further? every head (turns) to weariness, and every heart to grief.

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.

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,

⁹ Be not wroth with us exceedingly, and remember not all our sins betimes; and now look upon us, for we are all thy people. 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. ¹² And for all this thou didst refrain, O Lord, and heldest thy peace, and didst humble us exceedingly.

⁹ Be not wroth with us exceedingly, and remember not all our sins betimes; and now look upon us, for we are all thy people.