| 1 | How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street. | 2Ki 25:9 2Ki 25:10 Isa 1:21 Isa 14:12 Ezk 7:19-22 |
| 2 | The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! | Isa 51:18 Zc 9:13 |
| 3 | Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: The daughter of my people is become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. | Lam 2:20 Lam 4:10 Lv 26:29 Dt 28:52-57 2Ki 6:26-29 Isa 49:15 Jer 19:9 Ezk 5:10 Lk 23:28 Lk 23:29 |
| 4 | The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: The young children ask bread, and no man breaks it to them. | Ps 22:15 Ps 137:6 |
| 5 | Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. | Dt 28:54-56 Isa 3:16-26 Isa 24:6-12 Isa 32:9-14 Jer 6:2 Jer 6:3 Am 6:3-7 Lk 7:25 1Ti 5:6 Rev 18:7-9 |
| 6 | For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid on her. | Isa 1:9 Isa 1:10 Ezk 16:48-50 Mt 11:23 Mt 11:24 Lk 10:12 Lk 12:47 |
| 7 | Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire. | Nm 6:2-21 Jg 13:5 Jg 13:7 Jg 16:17 Am 2:11 Am 2:12 Lk 1:15 |
| 8 | Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. | Lam 5:10 Jb 30:17-19 Jb 30:30-19 Jl 2:6 Nah 2:10 |
| 9 | Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. | Lv 26:39 Ezk 24:23 Ezk 33:10 |
| 10 | The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children; They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people. | Lam 4:3 Lam 2:20 2Ki 6:26-29 |
| 11 | Yahweh has accomplished his wrath, he has poured out his fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations of it. | Lam 4:22 Lam 2:8 Lam 2:17 Dt 32:21-25 Jer 6:11 Jer 6:12 Jer 7:20 Jer 9:9-11 Jer 13:14 Jer 14:15 Jer 14:16 Jer 15:1-4 Jer 19:3-11 Jer 23:19 Jer 23:20 Jer 24:8-10 Ezk 20:47 Ezk 20:48 Ezk 22:31 Dn 9:12 Zc 1:6 Lk 21:22 |
| 12 | The kings of the earth didn`t believe, neither all the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. | Dt 29:24-28 1Ki 9:8 1Ki 9:9 Ps 48:4-6 |
| 13 | [It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her. | Lam 2:14 Jer 5:31 Jer 6:13 Jer 14:14 Jer 23:11-21 Ezk 22:26-28 Mic 3:11 Mic 3:12 Zep 3:3 Zep 3:4 |
| 14 | They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men can`t touch their garments. | Dt 28:28 Dt 28:29 Isa 29:10-12 Isa 56:10 Isa 59:9-11 Mic 3:6 Mic 3:7 Mt 15:14 Eph 4:18 |
| 15 | Depart you, they cried to them, Unclean! depart, depart, don`t touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here]. |
| 16 | The anger of Yahweh has scattered them; he will no more regard them: They didn`t respect the persons of the priests, they didn`t favor the elders. | Gn 49:7 Lv 26:33-39 Dt 28:25 Dt 28:64 Dt 28:65 Dt 32:26 Jer 15:4 Jer 24:9 |
| 17 | Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help: In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. | Lam 1:19 2Ki 24:7 Isa 20:5 Isa 30:1-7 Isa 31:1-3 Jer 2:18 Jer 2:36 Jer 8:20 Jer 37:7-10 Ezk 29:6 Ezk 29:7 Ezk 29:16 |
| 18 | They hunt our steps, so that we can`t go in our streets: Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. | Lam 3:52 1Sa 24:14 2Ki 25:4 2Ki 25:5 Jb 10:16 Ps 140:11 Jer 16:16 Jer 39:4 Jer 39:5 Jer 52:7-9 |
| 19 | Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky: They chased us on the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. | Dt 28:49 Isa 5:26-28 Isa 30:16 Isa 30:17 Jer 4:13 Hos 8:1 Hab 1:8 Mt 24:27 Mt 24:28 |
| 20 | The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of Yahweh, was taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. | Lam 2:9 Gn 2:7 Gn 44:30 2Sa 18:3 |
| 21 | Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom, that dwell in the land of Uz: The cup shall pass through to you also; you shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked. | Ps 83:3-12 Ps 137:7 Ec 11:9 Ezk 25:6 Ezk 25:8 Ezk 26:2 Ezk 35:11-15 Ob 1:10-16 |
| 22 | The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins. | Lam 4:6 Isa 40:2 Jer 46:27 Jer 46:28 Jer 50:20 |
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