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Lamentations 1

Lam. 1:20 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Behold
ra'ah (Hebrew #7200)
to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)
KJV usage: advise self, appear, approve, behold, X certainly, consider, discern, (make to) enjoy, have experience, gaze, take heed, X indeed, X joyfully, lo, look (on, one another, one on another, one upon another, out, up, upon), mark, meet, X be near, perceive, present, provide, regard, (have) respect, (fore-, cause to, let) see(-r, -m, one another), shew (self), X sight of others, (e-)spy, stare, X surely, X think, view, visions.
Pronounce: raw-aw'
Origin: a primitive root
, O Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
; for I am in distress
tsarar (Hebrew #6887)
to cramp, literally or figuratively, transitive or intransitive (as follows)
KJV usage: adversary, (be in) afflict(-ion), beseige, bind (up), (be in, bring) distress, enemy, narrower, oppress, pangs, shut up, be in a strait (trouble), vex.
Pronounce: tsaw-rar'
Origin: a primitive root
: my bowels
me`ah (Hebrew #4578)
used only in plural the intestines, or (collectively) the abdomen, figuratively, sympathy; by implication, a vest; by extens. the stomach, the uterus (or of men, the seat of generation), the heart (figuratively)
KJV usage: belly, bowels, X heart, womb.
Pronounce: may-aw'
Origin: from an unused root probably meaning to be soft
are troubled
chamar (Hebrew #2560)
properly, to boil up; hence, to ferment (with scum); to glow (with redness); as denominative (from 2564) to smear with pitch
KJV usage: daub, befoul, be red, trouble.
Pronounce: khaw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
; mine heart
leb (Hebrew #3820)
the heart; also used (figuratively) very widely for the feelings, the will and even the intellect; likewise for the centre of anything
KJV usage: + care for, comfortably, consent, X considered, courag(-eous), friend(-ly), ((broken-), (hard-), (merry-), (stiff-), (stout-), double) heart((-ed)), X heed, X I, kindly, midst, mind(-ed), X regard((-ed)), X themselves, X unawares, understanding, X well, willingly, wisdom.
Pronounce: labe
Origin: a form of 3824
is turned
haphak (Hebrew #2015)
to turn about or over; by implication, to change, overturn, return, pervert
KJV usage: X become, change, come, be converted, give, make (a bed), overthrow (-turn), perverse, retire, tumble, turn (again, aside, back, to the contrary, every way).
Pronounce: haw-fak'
Origin: a primitive root
within
qereb (Hebrew #7130)
properly, the nearest part, i.e. the center, whether literal, figurative or adverbial (especially with preposition)
KJV usage: X among, X before, bowels, X unto charge, + eat (up), X heart, X him, X in, inward (X -ly, part, -s, thought), midst, + out of, purtenance, X therein, X through, X within self.
Pronounce: keh'-reb
Origin: from 7126
me; fora I have grievously
marah (Hebrew #4784)
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
KJV usage: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
Pronounce: maw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
rebelled
marah (Hebrew #4784)
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
KJV usage: bitter, change, be disobedient, disobey, grievously, provocation, provoke(-ing), (be) rebel (against, -lious).
Pronounce: maw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root
: abroad
chuwts (Hebrew #2351)
(both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors
KJV usage: abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
Pronounce: khoots
Origin: or (shortened) chuts {khoots}
the sword
chereb (Hebrew #2719)
drought; also a cutting instrument (from its destructive effect), as a knife, sword, or other sharp implement
KJV usage: axe, dagger, knife, mattock, sword, tool.
Pronounce: kheh'-reb
Origin: from 2717
bereaveth
shakol (Hebrew #7921)
properly, to miscarry, i.e. suffer abortion; by analogy, to bereave (literally or figuratively)
KJV usage: bereave (of children), barren, cast calf (fruit, young), be (make) childless, deprive, destroy, X expect, lose children, miscarry, rob of children, spoil.
Pronounce: shaw-kole'
Origin: a primitive root
b, at home
bayith (Hebrew #1004)
a house (in the greatest variation of applications, especially family, etc.)
KJV usage: court, daughter, door, + dungeon, family, + forth of, X great as would contain, hangings, home(born), (winter)house(-hold), inside(-ward), palace, place, + prison, + steward, + tablet, temple, web, + within(-out).
Pronounce: bah'-yith
Origin: probably from 1129 abbreviated
there is as death
maveth (Hebrew #4194)
death (natural or violent); concretely, the dead, their place or state (hades); figuratively, pestilence, ruin
KJV usage: (be) dead((-ly)), death, die(-d).
Pronounce: maw'-veth
Origin: from 4191
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Psa. 51:3‑4• 3For I acknowledge my transgressions,{HR}And my sin is continually before me.
 4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,{HR}And have done the evil in thy sight (eyes);{HR}That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,{HR}[And be] clear when thou judgest. (Psa. 51:3‑4)
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Deut. 32:25• 25From without shall the sword bereave them,{HR}And in the chambers, terror{HR}—Both the young man and the virgin,{HR}The suckling with the man of gray hairs.{HR} (Deut. 32:25)
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Ezek. 7:15• 15The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. (Ezek. 7:15)

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Cross References

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Behold.
Lam. 1:9,11• 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.
 11All her people sigh, they seek bread;{HR}They have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul:{HR}See, O Jehovah, and consider: for I am become vile. (Lam. 1:9,11)
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Isa. 38:14• 14Like a swallow, a crane, so did I chatter; I mourned as a dove; mine eyes failed [with looking] upward. Jehovah, I am oppressed: undertake for me. (Isa. 38:14)
my bowels.
Lam. 2:11• 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. (Lam. 2:11)
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Job 30:27• 27My bowels are made to boil, and are not silent;{HR}Days of affliction have overtaken me. (Job 30:27)
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Psa. 22:14• 14I have been poured out like water,{HR}And all my bones have been separated;{HR}My heart has become like wax,{HR}It is melted in the midst of my bowels. (Psa. 22:14)
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Isa. 16:11• 11Therefore my bowels sound like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirhares. (Isa. 16:11)
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Jer. 4:19• 19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war. (Jer. 4:19)
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Jer. 31:20• 20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 31:20)
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Jer. 48:36• 36Therefore mine heart shall sound for Moab, like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kir-heres; because the riches that he hath gotten are perished. (Jer. 48:36)
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Hos. 11:8• 8How shall I give thee up, Ephraim? how shall I deliver thee, Israel? how shall I make thee as Admah? how shall I set thee as Zeboim? mine heart is turned within me, my repentings are kindled together. (Hos. 11:8)
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Hab. 3:16• 16When I heard, my belly trembled; (Hab. 3:16)
for.
Lam. 1:18• 18Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:{HR}Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow:{HR}My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. (Lam. 1:18)
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Lev. 26:40‑42• 40And they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, through their unfaithfullness wherein they were unfaithful to me, and also that they have walked contrary to me,
 41so [that] I also walked contrary to them, and brought them into the land of their enemies. If then their uncircumcised heart be humbled, and they then accept the punishment of their iniquity,
 42I will remember my covenant with Jacob, and also my covenant with Isaac, and also my covenant with Abraham will I remember; and I will remember the land. (Lev. 26:40‑42)
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1 Kings 8:47‑50• 47and if they shall take it to heart in the land whither they were carried captive, and repent, and make supplication unto thee in the land of them that carried them captive, saying, We have sinned, and have done iniquity, we have dealt perversely;
 48and if they return unto thee with all their heart and with all their soul, in the land of their enemies who led them away captive, and pray unto thee toward their land which thou gavest unto their fathers, the city that thou hast chosen, and the house that I have built unto thy name;
 49then hear thou in the heavens, the settled place of thy dwelling, their prayer and their supplication, and maintain their right;
 50and forgive thy people their sin against thee, and all their transgressions whereby they have transgressed against thee, and give them to find compassion with those who carried them captive, that they may have compassion on them (1 Kings 8:47‑50)
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Job 33:27• 27He singeth before mortals, and saith,{HR}I sinned and perverted right, and it satisfied me not. (Job 33:27)
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Psa. 51:3‑4• 3For I acknowledge my transgressions,{HR}And my sin is continually before me.
 4Against thee, thee only, have I sinned,{HR}And have done the evil in thy sight (eyes);{HR}That thou mayest be justified when thou speakest,{HR}[And be] clear when thou judgest. (Psa. 51:3‑4)
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Prov. 28:13• 13He that covereth his transgressions shall not prosper;{HR}But whoso confesseth and forsaketh [them] shall obtain mercy. (Prov. 28:13)
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Jer. 2:35• 35And thou sayest, Indeed I am innocent; his anger will turn from me. Behold, I will enter into judgment with thee because thou sayest, I have not sinned. (Jer. 2:35)
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Jer. 3:13• 13Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against Jehovah thy God, and hast scattered thy ways to the strangers under every green tree, and ye have not obeyed my voice, saith Jehovah. (Jer. 3:13)
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Luke 15:18‑19• 18I will rise up and go to my father, and I will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and before thee;
 19I am no longer worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants. (Luke 15:18‑19)
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Luke 18:13‑14• 13And the tax-gatherer, standing afar off, would not lift up even his eyes to heaven, but was striking upon his breast, saying, God, be merciful to me the sinner.
 14I say unto you, this [man] went down to his house justified rather than that [other]; for everyone who exalteth himself shall be humbled, and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted. (Luke 18:13‑14)
abroad.
Lam. 4:9‑10• 9Happier the slain with the sword than the slain with hunger;{HR}Because these pine away pierced through for the fruits of the field.
 10The hands of pitiful women boiled their children;{HR}They became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. (Lam. 4:9‑10)
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Deut. 32:25• 25From without shall the sword bereave them,{HR}And in the chambers, terror{HR}—Both the young man and the virgin,{HR}The suckling with the man of gray hairs.{HR} (Deut. 32:25)
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Jer. 9:21‑22• 21For death is come up through our windows, is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from the street, the young men from the broadways.
 22Speak, Thus saith Jehovah: Yea, the carcasses of men shall fall as dung upon the open field, and as the handful after the reaper, and there shall be none to gather. (Jer. 9:21‑22)
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Jer. 14:18• 18If I go forth into the field, behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the city, behold them that pine away with famine! For both prophet and priest shall go about into a land that they know not. (Jer. 14:18)
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Ezek. 7:15• 15The sword is without, and the pestilence and the famine within: he that is in the field shall die by the sword; and he that is in the city, famine and pestilence shall devour him. (Ezek. 7:15)

J. N. Darby Translation

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See, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled: without, the sword hath bereaved me, within, it is as death.

W. Kelly Translation

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Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled;{HR}Mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:{HR}Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.