Lamentations 1:19
"I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls."
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- Lamentations 1:11
"All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 1:2
"She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 2:20
"Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?"
Read in chapter → - Job 19:13
"He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 37:7
"Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 14:15
"Therefore thus saith the LORD concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they say, Sword and famine shall not be in this land; By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 2:28
"But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the time of thy trouble: for according to the number of thy cities are thy gods, O Judah."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 27:13
"Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the LORD hath spoken against the nation that will not serve the king of Babylon?"
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 4:17
"As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us."
Read in chapter → - Lamentations 4:7
"Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:"
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