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Lam. 1:2 KJV (With Strong’s)

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She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her loversf she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

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Jer. 4:30• ³⁰—And thou, wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair: thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life. (Jer. 4:30)

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Jer. 30:14‑15• ¹⁴All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased.
¹⁵Why criest thou for thine affliction? thy sorrow is incurable for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased, I have done these things unto thee. (Jer. 30:14‑15)

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Lam. 1:16• ¹⁶For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water,{HR}Because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me:{HR}My children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. (Lam. 1:16)

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Lam. 2:11,18‑19• ¹¹Mine eyes do fill with tears, my bowels are troubled,{HR}My liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;{HR}Because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
¹⁸Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion,{HR}Let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest;{HR}Let not the apple of thine eye cease.
¹⁹Arise, cry out in the night:{HR}In the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord:{HR}Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger in the top of every street. (Lam. 2:11,18‑19)

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Job 7:3• ³So I am made to inherit months of wretchedness,{HR}And nights of distress are appointed to me. (Job 7:3)

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Psa. 6:6• ⁶I am weary with my sighing;{HR}All the night make I my bed to swim;{HR}I cause my couch to flow down with my tears. (Psa. 6:6)

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Psa. 77:2‑6• ²In the day of my distress I sought the Lord (Adonai);{HR}My hand was stretched out in the night and slacked not;{HR}My soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God and was disquieted;{HR}I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes watching,{HR}I am troubled and cannot speak.
⁵I consider the days of old,{HR}The years of ancient times.
⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night;{HR}I commune with mine own heart,{HR}And my spirit maketh diligent search. (Psa. 77:2‑6)

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Jer. 9:1,17‑19• ¹Oh, that my head were waters, and mine eyes a fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night for the slain of the daughter of my people!
¹⁷Thus saith Jehovah of hosts: Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for the skilful women, that they may come;
¹⁸and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids pour forth waters.
¹⁹For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled, sorely put to shame! For we have forsaken the land, for they have cast down our dwellings. (Jer. 9:1,17‑19)

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Jer. 13:17• ¹⁷But if ye will not hear it my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because Jehovah's flock is carried away captive. (Jer. 13:17)

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Lam. 1:19• ¹⁹I called for my lovers, but they deceived me:{HR}My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,{HR}While they sought their meat to relieve their souls. (Lam. 1:19)

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Jer. 4:30• ³⁰—And thou, wasted one, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rendest thine eyes with paint, in vain dost thou make thyself fair: thy lovers despise thee, they seek thy life. (Jer. 4:30)

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Jer. 22:20‑22• ²⁰Go up to Lebanon and cry; and lift up thy voice in Bashan, and cry from the passages: for all thy lovers are destroyed.
²¹I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.
²²The wind shall eat up all thy pastors, and thy lovers shall go into captivity: surely then shalt thou be ashamed and confounded for all thy wickedness. (Jer. 22:20‑22)

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Jer. 30:14• ¹⁴All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with the chastisement of a cruel one, for the multitude of thine iniquity; because thy sins were increased. (Jer. 30:14)

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Ezek. 16:37• ³⁷behold, therefore I will gather all thy lovers, with whom thou hast taken pleasure, and all them that thou hast loved, with all them that thou hast hated; I will even gather them round about against thee, and will discover thy nakedness unto them, that they may see all thy nakedness. (Ezek. 16:37)

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Ezek. 23:22‑25• ²²Therefore, Ο Aholibah, thus saith the Lord Jehovah; Behold, I will raise up thy lovers against thee, from whom thy mind is alienated, and I will bring them against thee on every side;
²³the Babylonians, and all the Chaldeans, Pekod, and Shoa, and Koa, and all the Assyrians with them: all of them desirable young men, captains and rulers, great lords and renowned, all of them riding upon horses.
²⁴And they shall come against thee with chariots, wagons, and wheels, and with an assembly of people, which shall set against thee buckler and shield and helmet round about: and I will set judgment before them, and they shall judge thee according to their judgments.
²⁵And I will set my jealousy against thee, and they shall deal furiously with thee: they shall take away thy nose and thine ears; and thy remnant shall fall by the sword: they shall take thy sons and thy daughters; and thy residue shall be devoured by the fire. (Ezek. 23:22‑25)

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Hos. 2:7• ⁷And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find them: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now. (Hos. 2:7)

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Rev. 17:13,16• ¹³These have one mind and give their power and authority to the beast.
¹⁶And the ten horns which thou sawest, and the beast, these shall hate the harlot and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh and shall burn her with fire. (Rev. 17:13,16)

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Lam. 1:9,16‑17,21• ⁹Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;{HR}Therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter.{HR}O Jehovah, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
¹⁶For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water,{HR}Because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me:{HR}My children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
¹⁷Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her:{HR}Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him:{HR}Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
²¹They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me:{HR}All mine enemies have heard of my trouble, they are glad that thou hast done it;{HR}Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. (Lam. 1:9,16‑17,21)

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Isa. 51:18‑19• ¹⁸[There is] none to guide her among all the sons [whom] she hath brought forth; neither [is there any] that taketh her by the hand of all the sons [that] she hath brought up.
¹⁹These two [things] are befallen thee; who will bemoan thee? desolation and destruction, and famine and sword; how shall I comfort thee? (Isa. 51:18‑19)

all her friends.

Job 6:15• ¹⁵My brethren have deceived as a torrent,{HR}As the bed of torrents which overflow. (Job 6:15)

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Job 19:13‑14• ¹³My brethren he put far away from me,{HR}And mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
¹⁴My kinsmen have ceased,{HR}And my confidants have forgotten me. (Job 19:13‑14)

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Psa. 31:11• ¹¹I have been a reproach among all mine adversaries,{HR}And especially to my neighbours;{HR}And a fear to mine acquaintances who see me without ;{HR}They fled from me. (Psa. 31:11)

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Prov. 19:7• ⁷All the brothers of the poor hate him;{HR}How much more do his friends go far from him?{HR}He pursueth [with] words: they are not. (Prov. 19:7)

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Mic. 7:5• ⁵Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide; keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom. (Mic. 7:5)

• This in the night when darkness and sleep bring respite to others, to her only a renewal of that grief, less restrained. (“Lamentations of Jeremiah: Chapter 1” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

W. Kelly Translation

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She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;{HR}Among all her lovers she hath no comforter;{HR}All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

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(Note: Words in italics have been inserted from the J. N. Darby translation where the W. Kelly translation doesn’t exist.)