Lamentations 4:11 Cross References - Rotherham

¹¹ Yahweh hath completed his indignation, hath poured out the glow of his anger; and hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured her foundations.

²¹ They, have moved me to jealousy with a No–GOD, They have angered me with their vanities: I, therefore, will move them to jealousy, with a No–people, With an impious nation, will I anger them. ²² For, a fire, is kindled in mine anger, And shall burn as far as hades beneath,––And consume the earth with her produce, And set ablaze the foundations of the mountains: ²³ I will heap on them, calamities,––Mine arrows, will I spend upon them: ²⁴ The meltings of hunger, The devourings of fever, And the dangerous pestilence,––And, the tooth of beasts, will I send among them, With the poison of crawlers of the dust: ²⁵ Without, shall the sword bereave, In the inmost recesses, terror,––[To] both young man and virgin, Suckling, with man of grey hairs.

¹¹ So then, with the indignation of Yahweh, am I full, I am too weary to hold it in, [I am constrained] to pour it out, upon the boy in the street, and, upon the circle of young men, together,––For, even husband with wife, will be captured, The elder with him who is full of days; ¹² And their houses shall be turned over to others, Fields and wives together,––For I will stretch out my hand against the inhabitants of the land, Declareth Yahweh.

²⁰ Wherefore, Thus, saith My Lord Yahweh––Lo! mine anger and mine indignation, are about to be poured out upon this place, On man, and on beast, and, On the tree of the field, and, On the fruit of the ground,––And it shall burn, and shall not be quenched.

⁹ For these things, shall I not bring punishment on them? Demandeth Yahweh,––On a nation such as this, must not my soul avenge herself! ¹⁰ Over the mountains, will I take up a weeping and wailing, And, over the oases of the desert, a dirge, For they have been burned, so that no man passeth through, Neither have men heard the lowing of cattle,––Both the bird of the heavens and the beast, have fled, have gone their way: ¹¹ Thus will I give up Jerusalem, To heaps, A habitation for jackals,––And, the cities of Judah, will I give up to desolation, without inhabitant.

¹⁴ and I will dash them every man against his brother, even the fathers and the sons, together, Declareth Yahweh,––I will not pity, Neither will I spare, Neither will I have compassion, that I should not destroy them.

¹⁵ Therefore, Thus, saith Yahweh, concerning the prophets who are prophesying in my Name, though, I, sent them not, and yet, they, have been saying, Neither sword nor famine, shall there be in this land,––By sword or by famine, shall, those, prophets, be consumed; ¹⁶ And, the people to whom they, have been prophesying, shall be getting cast out into the streets of Jerusalem, because of the famine and the sword, and of there being none, to give burial, unto them, them, their wives, nor their sons, nor their daughters,––So will I pour out upon them their own wickedness.

¹ Then said Yahweh unto me, Though Moses and Samuel should stand, before me, My soul could not, be toward this people,––Send them away from before me, And let them go forth. ² And it shall come to pass, when they say unto thee, Whither, shall we go? Then shalt thou say unto them, Thus, saith Yahweh––Such as are for death, to death, and, Such as are for the sword, to the sword, and, Such as are for famine, to the famine, and, Such as are for captivity, to captivity. ³ And I will set in charge over them––four species, Declareth Yahweh, The sword, to slay, and, The dogs, to trail along,––and, The bird of the heavens, and, The beast of the earth, to devour and to destroy. ⁴ And I will make them a terror, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––On account of Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, For what he did in Jerusalem.

²⁷ But, if ye will not hearken unto me––To hallow the sabbath day, And to bear no burden and bring in through the gates of Jerusalem, on the sabbath day, Then will I kindle a fire within her gates, And it shall devour the palaces of Jerusalem, And shall not be quenched.

³ and shalt say,––Hear ye the word of Yahweh, O kings of Judah, And inhabitants of Jerusalem,––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––God of Israel, Behold me! bringing in calamity upon this place, which shall cause the ears of, every one that heareth it, to tingle: ⁴ Because they have forsaken me, And have treated this as a foreign place, And have burned incense therein to other, gods, which, neither they, nor their fathers, nor the kings of Judah, have known; And have filled this place with the blood of innocents; ⁵ And have built the high places of Baal, for burning up their sons in the fire, as ascending–sacrifices to Baal,––Which I commanded not, Nor spake, Neither came it up on my heart, ⁶ Therefore, lo! days coming, Declareth Yahweh, When this place shall be called no longer, The Topheth, or, The Valley of Ben–hinnom,––but––The Valley of Slaughter; ⁷ And I will pour out the counsel of Judah and Jerusalem, in this place, And I will cause them to fall by the sword, before their enemies, and by the hand of them who seek their life,–– ⁸ And I will give their dead bodies, for food, to the bird of the heavens, and to the beast of the earth; And I will make this city a desolation, and a hissing,––every one that passeth by it, shall be astonished and hiss, over all her wounds; ⁹ And I will suffer them to eat the flesh of their sons, and the flesh of their daughters, yea, every one––the flesh of his friend, will they eat,––in the siege, and in the straitness, wherewith, their enemies, and they who seek their lives, will straiten them.
¹⁰ Then shalt thou break the bottle, before the eyes of the men who are walking with thee; ¹¹ and shalt say unto them––Thus, saith Yahweh of hosts––Thus and thus, will I break this people, and this city, As one breaketh the vessel of a potter, which cannot be made whole any more,––And, in Topheth, shall they bury, for want of place to bury.

¹⁴ Yet will I bring punishment upon you, according to the fruit of your doings, Declareth Yahweh,––and will kindle a fire in her forest, and it shall devour all things round about her.

¹⁹ Lo! the tempest of Yahweh! Indignation, hath come forth, Even a tempest whirling along: On the head of the lawless, shall it hurl itself down. ²⁰ The anger of Yahweh, wilt not return, Until he hath executed, nor, Until he hath established, The purposes of his heart,––In the afterpart of the days, shall ye understand it, perfectly.

⁸ And, like the bad figs, which cannot be eaten, for badness, Surely, thus, saith Yahweh––so, will I deliver up Zedekiah king of Judah, and his princes, and the remnant of Jerusalem, that remain in this land, and them who are dwelling in the land of Egypt; ⁹ yea I will deliver them up, as a terror of calamity, to all the kingdoms of the earth,––as a reproach, and as a byword, as a mockery and as a contempt, in every place whither I will drive them; ¹⁰ and I will send among them, sword, famine and pestilence,––until they are consumed from off the soil, which I gave to them, and to their fathers.

⁸ Yahweh hath devised to lay in ruins, the wall of the daughter of Zion, he hath stretched out a line, he hath not turned back his hand from swallowing up,––Thus hath he caused to mourn––rampart and wall, together, have they languished!

¹⁷ Yahweh hath done what he thought, hath carried out his word, wherewith he gave charge in the days of old, hath thrown down, and not spared,––Thus hath he let the enemy rejoice over thee, hath raised high the horn of thine adversaries.

²² Completed is thy punishment, O daughter of Zion, He will no more carry thee away captive––He hath punished thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom, he hath stripped the veil from off thy sins.

⁴⁷ And thou shalt say to the forest of the South, Hear the word of Yahweh,––Thus, saith My Lord, Yahweh––Behold me! kindling in thee a fire, And it shall devour in thee every moist tree and every dry tree, The spreading flame, shall not be quenched, Then, shall be scorched thereby, all faces, from south to north; ⁴⁸ And all flesh shall see, that, I, Yahweh, have kindled it,––It shall not be quenched.

³¹ Therefore have I poured out upon them mine indignation, In the fire of mine outburst, have I consumed them,––Their way, upon their own head, have I placed, Declareth My Lord, Yahweh.

¹² Thus hath he confirmed his words which he had spoken against us, and against our judges who had judged us, by bringing in upon us a great calamity,––as to which there had not been done, under all the heavens, as hath been done unto Jerusalem.

⁶ Howbeit, as for my words and my statutes with which I charged my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and so they returned and said, Just as Yahweh of hosts planned to do unto us, according to our ways and according to our practices, So hath he dealt with us?

²² For, days of avenging, are, these, for all the things written to be fulfilled.