Lamentations 1:11

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Translations sourced from the public-domain WEB, KJV, and ASV. See all sources.

“All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see; for I have become despised.””

— WEB

“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.”

— KJV

“All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject.”

— ASV

Cross-references

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Psalms 25:15-19 "My eyes are ever on Yahweh, for he will pluck my feet out of the net."

Commentary

(Jer 37:21; Jer 38:9; Jer 52:6). given . . . pleasant things for meat-- (Kg2 6:25; Job 2:4). relieve . . . soul--literally, "to cause the soul or life to return." for I am become vile--Her sins and consequent sorrows are made the plea in craving God's mercy. Compare the like plea in Psa 25:11.

— Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (public domain)

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