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When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction. <a href="/nlt/lamentations/1.htm">New Living Translation</a> In the midst of her sadness and wandering, Jerusalem remembers her ancient splendor. But now she has fallen to her enemy, and there is no one to help her. Her enemy struck her down and laughed as she fell. <a href="/esv/lamentations/1.htm">English Standard Version</a> Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall. <a href="/bsb/lamentations/1.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a> In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall. <a href="/kjv/lamentations/1.htm">King James Bible</a> Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. <a href="/nkjv/lamentations/1.htm">New King James Version</a> In the days of her affliction and roaming, Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things That she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, With no one to help her, The adversaries saw her And mocked at her downfall. <a href="/nasb_/lamentations/1.htm">New American Standard Bible</a> In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her treasures That were hers since the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They laughed at her ruin. <a href="/nasb/lamentations/1.htm">NASB 1995</a> In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her ruin. <a href="/nasb77/lamentations/1.htm">NASB 1977 </a> In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her ruin. <a href="/lsb/lamentations/1.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a> In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her; They laughed at her ruin. <a href="/amp/lamentations/1.htm">Amplified Bible</a> In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That she had from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, And no one helped her, The enemy saw her, They mocked at her downfall. <a href="/csb/lamentations/1.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a> During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary’s hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall. <a href="/hcsb/lamentations/1.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a> During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary&#8217s hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall. <a href="/asv/lamentations/1.htm">American Standard Version</a> Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, The adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations. <a href="/cev/lamentations/1.htm">Contemporary English Version</a> Her people recall the good life that once was theirs; now they suffer and are scattered. No one was there to protect them from their enemies who sneered when their city was taken. <a href="/erv/lamentations/1.htm">English Revised Version</a> Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and none did help her, the adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations. <a href="/gwt/lamentations/1.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a> "Now, during its suffering and oppression, Jerusalem remembers all the treasures it had from ancient times, when its people fell into the power of their enemies with no one to help them. Their opponents looked on, and they laughed at Jerusalem's downfall. <a href="/gnt/lamentations/1.htm">Good News Translation</a> A lonely ruin now, Jerusalem recalls her ancient splendor. When she fell to the enemy, there was no one to help her; Her conquerors laughed at her downfall. <a href="/isv/lamentations/1.htm">International Standard Version</a> Jerusalem remembers her time of affliction and misery; all her valued belongings of days gone by, when her people fell into enemy hands, with no one to help her, and her enemies stared at her, mocking her downfall. <a href="/msb/lamentations/1.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a> In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall. <a href="/net/lamentations/1.htm">NET Bible</a> Jerusalem remembers, when she became a poor homeless person, all her treasures that she owned in days of old. When her people fell into an enemy's grip, none of her allies came to her rescue. Her enemies gloated over her; they sneered at her downfall. <a href="/nheb/lamentations/1.htm">New Heart English Bible</a> Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all her precious things that were from the days of old: when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, they mocked at her desolations. <a href="/wbt/lamentations/1.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a> Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none helped her: the adversaries saw her, and mocked at her sabbaths. <a href="/web/lamentations/1.htm">World English Bible</a> Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations. <div class="vheading2">Literal Translations</div><a href="/lsv/lamentations/1.htm">Literal Standard Version</a> Jerusalem has remembered "" [In] the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, "" In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, "" And she has no helper; Adversaries have seen her, "" They have laughed at her cessation. <a href="/ylt/lamentations/1.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a> Remembered hath Jerusalem In the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she hath no helper; Seen her have adversaries, They have laughed at her cessation. <a href="/slt/lamentations/1.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a> Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction and her wanderings, all her delights which were from the days of old in the falling of her people into the hand of the enemy, and none helping for her: the adversaries saw her; they laughed at her calamities.<div class="vheading2">Catholic Translations</div><a href="/drb/lamentations/1.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a> Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction, and prevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days of old, when her people fell in the enemy's hand, and there was no helper: the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths. <a href="/cpdv/lamentations/1.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a> ZAIN. Jerusalem has remembered the days of her affliction and the betrayal of all her desirable ones, whom she held from the days of antiquity, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and there was no one to be a helper. The enemies have looked upon her and mocked her Sabbaths. <a href="/nabre/lamentations/1.htm">New American Bible</a> Jerusalem remembers in days of wretched homelessness, All the precious things she once had in days gone by. But when her people fell into the hands of the foe, and she had no help, Her foes looked on and laughed at her collapse. <a href="/nrsvce/lamentations/1.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a> Jerusalem remembers, in the days of her affliction and wandering, all the precious things that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was no one to help her, the foe looked on mocking over her downfall.<div class="vheading2">Translations from Aramaic</div><a href="/lamsa/lamentations/1.htm">Lamsa Bible</a> Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her chastisement all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the oppressor and she had none to help her, her oppressors saw her, and mocked at her destruction. <a href="/hpbt/lamentations/1.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a> Zayin Jerusalem has remembered the days of her oppression and her chastisement, and all her pleasant things from the first days when her people fell into the hand of the oppressor, and there was no helper for her. Her oppressors saw her and they laughed at her ruin<div class="vheading2">OT Translations</div><a href="/jps/lamentations/1.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a> Jerusalem remembereth In the days of her affliction and of her anguish All her treasures that she had From the days of old; Now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary, And none doth help her, The adversaries have seen her, They have mocked at her desolations. <a href="/sep/lamentations/1.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a> ZAIN. Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and her rejection; she thought on all her desirable things which were from the days of old, when her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, and there was none to help her: when her enemies saw it they laughed at her habitation. <a href="/parallel/lamentations/1-7.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv">Audio Bible</div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rKrWuOkEqzQ?start=87" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe> <div class="vheadingv">Context</div><a href="/bsb/lamentations/1.htm">How Lonely Lies the City</a> …6All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter. 7<a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: yə·mê (N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">In the days</a> <a href="/hebrew/6040.htm" title="6040: ‘ā·nə·yāh (N-msc:: 3fs) -- Affliction, poverty. From anah; depression, i.e. Misery.">of her affliction</a> <a href="/hebrew/4788.htm" title="4788: ū·mə·rū·ḏe·hā (Conj-w:: N-mpc:: 3fs) -- Restlessness, straying. From ruwd in the sense of maltreatment; an outcast; destitution.">and wandering</a> <a href="/hebrew/3389.htm" title="3389: yə·rū·šā·lim (N-proper-fs) -- Probably foundation of peace, capital city of all Isr. ">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/hebrew/2142.htm" title="2142: zā·ḵə·rāh (V-Qal-Perf-3fs) -- Remember. A primitive root; properly, to mark, i.e. To remember; by implication, to mention; also to be male.">remembers</a> <a href="/hebrew/3605.htm" title="3605: kōl (N-msc) -- The whole, all. Or kowl; from kalal; properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every.">all</a> <a href="/hebrew/4262.htm" title="4262: ma·ḥă·mu·ḏe·hā (N-mpc:: 3fs) -- A desirable or precious thing. Or machmuwd; from chamad; desired; hence, a valuable.">the treasures</a> <a href="/hebrew/834.htm" title="834: ’ă·šer (Pro-r) -- Who, which, that. A primitive relative pronoun; who, which, what, that; also when, where, how, because, in order that, etc.">that</a> <a href="/hebrew/1961.htm" title="1961: hā·yū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To fall out, come to pass, become, be. A primitive root; to exist, i.e. Be or become, come to pass.">were hers</a> <a href="/hebrew/3117.htm" title="3117: mî·mê (Prep-m:: N-mpc) -- Day. From an unused root meaning to be hot; a day, whether literal, or figurative.">in days</a> <a href="/hebrew/6924.htm" title="6924: qe·ḏem (N-ms) -- The front, of place, time. Or qedmah; from qadam; the front, of place or time; often used adverbially.">of old.</a> <a href="/hebrew/5971.htm" title="5971: ‘am·māh (N-msc:: 3fs) -- From amam; a people; specifically, a tribe; hence troops or attendants; figuratively, a flock.">When her people</a> <a href="/hebrew/5307.htm" title="5307: bin·p̄ōl (Prep-b:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To fall, lie. A primitive root; to fall, in a great variety of applications.">fell</a> <a href="/hebrew/6862.htm" title="6862: ṣār (N-ms) -- Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent. Or tsar; from tsarar; narrow; a tight place; also a pebble; an opponent.">into enemy</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: bə·yaḏ- (Prep-b:: N-fsc) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">hands</a> <a href="/hebrew/369.htm" title="369: wə·’ên (Conj-w:: Adv) -- As if from a primitive root meaning to be nothing or not exist; a non-entity; generally used as a negative particle.">she received no</a> <a href="/hebrew/5826.htm" title="5826: ‘ō·w·zêr (V-Qal-Prtcpl-ms) -- To help, succor. A primitive root; to surround, i.e. Protect or aid.">help.</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāh (Prep:: 3fs) -- "></a> <a href="/hebrew/6862.htm" title="6862: ṣā·rîm (N-mp) -- Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent. Or tsar; from tsarar; narrow; a tight place; also a pebble; an opponent.">Her enemies</a> <a href="/hebrew/7200.htm" title="7200: rā·’ū·hā (V-Qal-Perf-3cp:: 3fs) -- To see. A primitive root; to see, literally or figuratively.">looked upon her,</a> <a href="/hebrew/7832.htm" title="7832: śā·ḥă·qū (V-Qal-Perf-3cp) -- To laugh. A primitive root; to laugh; by implication, to play.">laughing</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘al (Prep) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications.">at</a> <a href="/hebrew/4868.htm" title="4868: miš·bat·te·hā (N-fpc:: 2ms) -- Cessation, annihilation. From shabath; cessation, i.e. Destruction.">her downfall.</a> 8Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div> <a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><a href="/psalms/137-1.htm">Psalm 137:1-3</a> By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion. / There on the willows we hung our harps, / for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.” <a href="/jeremiah/52-4.htm">Jeremiah 52:4-11</a> So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. / And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. / By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. ... <a href="/2_kings/25-1.htm">2 Kings 25:1-7</a> So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it. / And the city was kept under siege until King Zedekiah’s eleventh year. / By the ninth day of the fourth month, the famine in the city was so severe that the people of the land had no food. ... <a href="/isaiah/64-11.htm">Isaiah 64:11</a> Our holy and beautiful temple, where our fathers praised You, has been burned with fire, and all that was dear to us lies in ruins. <a href="/jeremiah/30-14.htm">Jeremiah 30:14</a> All your lovers have forgotten you; they no longer seek you, for I have struck you as an enemy would, with the discipline of someone cruel, because of your great iniquity and your numerous sins. <a href="/ezekiel/16-52.htm">Ezekiel 16:52-54</a> So now you must bear your disgrace, since you have brought justification for your sisters. For they appear more righteous than you, because your sins were more vile than theirs. So you too must bear your shame and disgrace, since you have made your sisters appear righteous. / But I will restore Sodom and her daughters from captivity, as well as Samaria and her daughters. And I will restore you along with them. / So you will bear your disgrace and be ashamed of all you did to comfort them. <a href="/jeremiah/31-18.htm">Jeremiah 31:18-19</a> I have surely heard Ephraim’s moaning: ‘You disciplined me severely, like an untrained calf. Restore me, that I may return, for You are the LORD my God. / After I returned, I repented; and after I was instructed, I struck my thigh in grief. I was ashamed and humiliated because I bore the disgrace of my youth.’ <a href="/isaiah/47-7.htm">Isaiah 47:7-9</a> You said, ‘I will be queen forever.’ You did not take these things to heart or consider their outcome. / So now hear this, O lover of luxury who sits securely, who says to herself, ‘I am, and there is none besides me. I will never be a widow or know the loss of children.’ / These two things will overtake you in a moment, in a single day: loss of children, and widowhood. They will come upon you in full measure, in spite of your many sorceries and the potency of your spells. <a href="/ezekiel/23-31.htm">Ezekiel 23:31-35</a> Because you have followed the path of your sister, I will put her cup into your hand.’ / This is what the Lord GOD says: ‘You will drink your sister’s cup, a cup deep and wide. It will bring scorn and derision, for it holds so much. / You will be filled with drunkenness and grief, with a cup of devastation and desolation, the cup of your sister Samaria. ... <a href="/hosea/2-7.htm">Hosea 2:7</a> She will pursue her lovers but not catch them; she will seek them but not find them. Then she will say, ‘I will return to my first husband, for then I was better off than now.’ <a href="/revelation/18-7.htm">Revelation 18:7-8</a> As much as she has glorified herself and lived in luxury, give her the same measure of torment and grief. In her heart she says, ‘I sit as queen; I am not a widow and will never see grief.’ / Therefore her plagues will come in one day—death and grief and famine—and she will be consumed by fire, for mighty is the Lord God who judges her.” <a href="/luke/19-41.htm">Luke 19:41-44</a> As Jesus approached Jerusalem and saw the city, He wept over it / and said, “If only you had known on this day what would bring you peace! But now it is hidden from your eyes. / For the days will come upon you when your enemies will barricade you and surround you and hem you in on every side. ... <a href="/matthew/23-37.htm">Matthew 23:37-39</a> O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets and stones those sent to her, how often I have longed to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were unwilling! / Look, your house is left to you desolate. / For I tell you that you will not see Me again until you say, ‘Blessed is He who comes in the name of the Lord.’” <a href="/hebrews/10-32.htm">Hebrews 10:32-34</a> Remember the early days that you were in the light. In those days, you endured a great conflict in the face of suffering. / Sometimes you were publicly exposed to ridicule and persecution; at other times you were partners with those who were so treated. / You sympathized with those in prison and joyfully accepted the confiscation of your property, knowing that you yourselves had a better and permanent possession. <a href="/revelation/2-5.htm">Revelation 2:5</a> Therefore, keep in mind how far you have fallen. Repent and perform the deeds you did at first. But if you do not repent, I will come to you and remove your lampstand from its place.</div> <a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div>Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.remembered<a href="/job/29-2.htm">Job 29:2</a> Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;<a href="/job/30-1.htm">Job 30:1</a> But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.<a href="/psalms/42-4.htm">Psalm 42:4</a> When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.all her<a href="/deuteronomy/4-7.htm">Deuteronomy 4:7,8,34-37</a> For what nation is there so great, who hath God so nigh unto them, as the LORD our God is in all things that we call upon him for? … <a href="/deuteronomy/8-7.htm">Deuteronomy 8:7-9</a> For the LORD thy God bringeth thee into a good land, a land of brooks of water, of fountains and depths that spring out of valleys and hills; … <a href="/psalms/147-19.htm">Psalm 147:19,20</a> He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel… pleasant.<a href="/lamentations/1-10.htm">Lamentations 1:10</a> The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.the adversaries<a href="/lamentations/2-15.htm">Lamentations 2:15,16</a> All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth? … <a href="/psalms/79-4.htm">Psalm 79:4</a> We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.<a href="/psalms/137-3.htm">Psalm 137:3,4</a> For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us required of us mirth, saying, Sing us one of the songs of Zion… <div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/lamentations/1-5.htm">Adversaries</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-5.htm">Adversary</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-3.htm">Affliction</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-4.htm">Anguish</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-26.htm">Desolations</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-5.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-64.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-15.htm">Fell</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-21.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/jeremiah/50-32.htm">Help</a> <a href="/jeremiah/2-37.htm">Helped</a> <a href="/jeremiah/52-29.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/james/5-1.htm">Miseries</a> <a href="/jeremiah/38-19.htm">Mock</a> <a href="/isaiah/37-23.htm">Mocked</a> <a href="/jeremiah/42-6.htm">Pleasant</a> <a href="/jeremiah/44-21.htm">Remembered</a> <a href="/proverbs/31-7.htm">Remembereth</a> <a href="/isaiah/64-5.htm">Remembers</a> <a href="/isaiah/56-4.htm">Sabbaths</a> <a href="/jeremiah/51-16.htm">Treasures</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/lamentations/1-17.htm">Adversaries</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-10.htm">Adversary</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-9.htm">Affliction</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-19.htm">Anguish</a> <a href="/ezekiel/35-9.htm">Desolations</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-9.htm">Enemy</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-9.htm">Fall</a> <a href="/lamentations/4-6.htm">Fell</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-10.htm">Hand</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-8.htm">Help</a> <a href="/ezekiel/32-21.htm">Helped</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-8.htm">Jerusalem</a> <a href="/matthew/24-8.htm">Miseries</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-14.htm">Mock</a> <a href="/matthew/2-16.htm">Mocked</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-10.htm">Pleasant</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-9.htm">Remembered</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-9.htm">Remembereth</a> <a href="/lamentations/3-20.htm">Remembers</a> <a href="/lamentations/2-6.htm">Sabbaths</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-10.htm">Treasures</a><div class="vheading2">Lamentations 1</div>1. <a href="/lamentations/1-1.htm">The miseries of Jerusalem and of the Jews lamented</a> 12. <a href="/lamentations/1-12.htm">The attention of beholders demanded to this unprecedented case</a> 18. <a href="/lamentations/1-18.htm">The justice of God acknowledged, and his mercy supplicated.</a> </div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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Historically, this is set during the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 586 BC, when the city was destroyed, and its people were taken captive. The term "wandering" evokes the imagery of the Israelites' earlier wilderness wanderings, suggesting a return to a state of aimlessness and divine judgment. This period of affliction is a fulfillment of the warnings given by prophets like Jeremiah, who foretold the consequences of the nation's disobedience to God.Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. Here, "treasures" can be understood both literally and metaphorically. Literally, it refers to the wealth and splendor of Jerusalem, including the Temple's riches, which were plundered by the Babylonians. Metaphorically, it signifies the spiritual and cultural heritage of the city, including its covenant relationship with God. The "days of old" hark back to the times of David and Solomon, when Jerusalem was at its zenith, symbolizing a period of divine favor and prosperity. This remembrance is a poignant reflection on what has been lost due to the nation's unfaithfulness.When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. This phrase highlights the abandonment and isolation felt by Jerusalem during the Babylonian siege. Despite alliances with neighboring nations like Egypt, no aid came to rescue Jerusalem from its plight. This lack of help underscores the futility of relying on human alliances instead of trusting in God. It also fulfills prophecies such as those in Isaiah and Jeremiah, which warned that foreign alliances would not save Judah from destruction.Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall. The enemies' mockery signifies the complete humiliation of Jerusalem. This scorn is not just a political defeat but a spiritual one, as the city that was once the center of worship for the true God is now derided. This mirrors the taunts faced by Jesus Christ during His crucifixion, where He was mocked by onlookers, drawing a typological connection between Jerusalem's suffering and Christ's passion. The laughter of the enemies fulfills the prophetic warnings of <a href="/deuteronomy/28-37.htm">Deuteronomy 28:37</a>, where disobedience would lead to becoming "an object of scorn and ridicule."<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <a href="/topical/j/jerusalem.htm">Jerusalem</a> The capital city of Judah, representing the people of God and their spiritual state. In Lamentations, it symbolizes the suffering and desolation due to the Babylonian conquest. 2. <a href="/topical/h/her_people.htm">Her People</a> Refers to the inhabitants of Jerusalem who have been taken into captivity or are suffering under the siege and destruction brought by the Babylonians. 3. <a href="/topical/e/enemies.htm">Enemies</a> The Babylonians, who conquered Jerusalem, are depicted as those who mock and deride the city in its downfall. 4. <a href="/topical/d/days_of_affliction_and_wandering.htm">Days of Affliction and Wandering</a> This phrase captures the period of suffering and exile experienced by the people of Jerusalem after the Babylonian conquest. 5. <a href="/topical/t/treasures_of_days_of_old.htm">Treasures of Days of Old</a> Symbolizes the former glory, prosperity, and blessings that Jerusalem once enjoyed before its fall.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><a href="/topical/t/the_consequences_of_disobedience.htm">The Consequences of Disobedience</a> The fall of Jerusalem serves as a stark reminder of the consequences of turning away from God. It highlights the importance of faithfulness and obedience to God's commandments. <a href="/topical/t/the_pain_of_lost_glory.htm">The Pain of Lost Glory</a> Reflecting on past blessings can be painful when contrasted with present suffering. This teaches us to cherish and steward the blessings we have, recognizing their source in God. <a href="/topical/t/the_reality_of_mockery_and_scorn.htm">The Reality of Mockery and Scorn</a> The enemies' laughter at Jerusalem's downfall illustrates how the world may mock believers in their times of trial. It calls us to find our identity and worth in God, not in worldly success or approval. <a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_remembrance.htm">The Importance of Remembrance</a> Remembering past blessings and God's faithfulness can provide hope and encouragement in times of distress. It encourages us to trust in God's future restoration. <a href="/topical/t/the_need_for_repentance_and_restoration.htm">The Need for Repentance and Restoration</a> The lamentation calls for introspection and repentance, urging us to seek God's forgiveness and restoration in our lives.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_lamentations_1.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Lamentations 1</a> <a href="/q/what_musical_terms_are_used_in_psalms.htm">What musical terms are used in Psalms?</a> <a href="/q/do_1_kings_7_48-51_treasures_match_other_accounts.htm">Do the treasures listed in 1 Kings 7:48-51 align with known temple inventories or is there any inconsistency with other biblical accounts?</a> <a href="/q/how_to_reconcile_jeremiah_20_7_with_james_1_13.htm">How can Jeremiah 20:7 be reconciled with James 1:13, which states that God never tempts or deceives anyone?</a> <a href="/q/how_is_suffering_'light_and_momentary'.htm">In 2 Corinthians 4:17, how can immense suffering be dismissed as 'light and momentary' without downplaying real human pain?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/lamentations/1.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(7) Jerusalem remembered.--Better, remembereth. The present is contrasted with the past. Still. the "sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things."That she had in the days of old.--Better, which have been since the days of old.Did mock at her sabbaths.--The noun is not found elsewhere, but is connected with that commonly rendered "sabbath." It seems coined as a word of pregnant meaning to express at once the enforced sabbaths of the untilled land (<a href="/context/leviticus/26-34.htm" title="Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lies desolate, and you be in your enemies' land; even then shall the land rest, and enjoy her sabbaths.">Leviticus 26:34-35</a>), and the sabbaths, no longer festivals, but conspicuous for the absence of any religious rites, which had followed on the destruction of the Temple.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/lamentations/1.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div>Verse 7. - Remembered; rather, remembereth. Miseries. The Hebrew is difficult, and perhaps means wanderings. At her sabbaths; rather, at her extinguishment. The word has nothing to do with the sabbaths; indeed, a reference to these would have been rather misplaced; it was no subject of wonder to the Babylonians that the Jews celebrated a weekly day of rest, as they had one of their own (sabattu). <a href="/commentaries/lamentations/1-7.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a> <a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div>In the days יְמֵ֤י (yə·mê) Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day of her affliction עָנְיָהּ֙ (‘ā·nə·yāh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6040.htm">Strong's 6040: </a> Affliction, poverty and wandering וּמְרוּדֶ֔יהָ (ū·mə·rū·ḏe·hā) Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4788.htm">Strong's 4788: </a> An outcast, destitution Jerusalem יְרוּשָׁלִַ֗ם (yə·rū·šā·lim) Noun - proper - feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3389.htm">Strong's 3389: </a> Jerusalem -- probably 'foundation of peace', capital city of all Israel remembers זָֽכְרָ֣ה (zā·ḵə·rāh) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_2142.htm">Strong's 2142: </a> To mark, to remember, to mention, to be male all כֹּ֚ל (kōl) Noun - masculine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3605.htm">Strong's 3605: </a> The whole, all, any, every the treasures מַחֲמֻדֶ֔יהָ (ma·ḥă·mu·ḏe·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4262.htm">Strong's 4262: </a> A desirable or precious thing that אֲשֶׁ֥ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative <a href="/hebrew/strongs_834.htm">Strong's 834: </a> Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that were hers הָי֖וּ (hā·yū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_1961.htm">Strong's 1961: </a> To fall out, come to pass, become, be in days מִ֣ימֵי (mî·mê) Preposition-m | Noun - masculine plural construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3117.htm">Strong's 3117: </a> A day of old. קֶ֑דֶם (qe·ḏem) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6924.htm">Strong's 6924: </a> The front, of place, time When her people עַמָּ֣הּ (‘am·māh) Noun - masculine singular construct | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5971.htm">Strong's 5971: </a> A people, a tribe, troops, attendants, a flock fell בִּנְפֹ֧ל (bin·p̄ōl) Preposition-b | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5307.htm">Strong's 5307: </a> To fall, lie into the hand בְּיַד־ (bə·yaḏ-) Preposition-b | Noun - feminine singular construct <a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> A hand of the adversary, צָ֗ר (ṣār) Noun - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6862.htm">Strong's 6862: </a> Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent she had no וְאֵ֤ין (wə·’ên) Conjunctive waw | Adverb <a href="/hebrew/strongs_369.htm">Strong's 369: </a> A non-entity, a negative particle one to help. עוֹזֵר֙ (‘ō·w·zêr) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5826.htm">Strong's 5826: </a> To surround, protect, aid Her enemies צָרִ֔ים (ṣā·rîm) Noun - masculine plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_6862.htm">Strong's 6862: </a> Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent looked at her, רָא֣וּהָ (rā·’ū·hā) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural | third person feminine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7200.htm">Strong's 7200: </a> To see laughing שָׂחֲק֖וּ (śā·ḥă·qū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural <a href="/hebrew/strongs_7832.htm">Strong's 7832: </a> To laugh, to play at עַ֥ל (‘al) Preposition <a href="/hebrew/strongs_5921.htm">Strong's 5921: </a> Above, over, upon, against her downfall. מִשְׁבַּתֶּֽהָ׃ (miš·bat·te·hā) Noun - feminine plural construct | second person masculine singular <a href="/hebrew/strongs_4868.htm">Strong's 4868: </a> Cessation, annihilation <div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 NIV</a> <a href="/nlt/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 NLT</a> <a href="/esv/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 ESV</a> <a href="/nasb/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 NASB</a> <a href="/kjv/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 KJV</a> <a href="//bibleapps.com/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 BibleApps.com</a> <a href="//bibliaparalela.com/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 Biblia Paralela</a> <a href="//holybible.com.cn/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 Chinese Bible</a> <a href="//saintebible.com/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 French Bible</a> <a href="/catholic/lamentations/1-7.htm">Lamentations 1:7 Catholic Bible</a> <a href="/lamentations/1-7.htm">OT Prophets: Lamentations 1:7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her (Lam. 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