Lamentations 1:7

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Lamentations 1:5–9 · Berean Standard Bible

5 Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

6 All 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 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.

8 Jerusalem 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.

9 Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

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when His lamp shone above my head, and by His light I walked through the darkness,

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when I was in my prime, when the friendship of God rested on my tent,

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when the Almighty was still with me and my children were around me,

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when my steps were bathed in cream and the rock poured out for me streams of oil!

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Job 29:10

The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.

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