10 Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger. 11 Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah. 12 Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect.
Lamentations 5:10–12
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Lamentations 5:2–4
2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners. 3 We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers are widows. 4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood comes at a price.
Lamentations 4:4–6
4 The nursing infant’s tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any. 5 Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets; those brought up in crimson huddle in ash heaps. 6 The punishment of the d…
Psalms 78:62–64
62 He surrendered His people to the sword because He was enraged by His heritage. 63 Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs. 64 His priests fell by the sword, but their widows could not lament.
Nahum 3:12–14
12 All your fortresses are fig trees with the first ripe figs; when shaken, they fall into the mouth of the eater! 13 Look at your troops— they are like your women! The gates of your land are wide open to your enemies; fire consumes their bars. 14 Draw your water for th…
Lamentations 4:9–11
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2 Esdras 16:33–35
33 The virgins will mourn, having no bridegrooms. The women will mourn, having no husbands. Their daughters will mourn, having no helpers. (WEB) 34 Their bridegrooms will be destroyed in the wars, and their husbands will perish of famine. (WEB) 35 Hear now these things, and underst… (WEB)
Psalms 79:2–4
2 They have given the corpses of Your servants as food to the birds of the air, the flesh of Your saints to the beasts of the earth. 3 They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there is no one to bury the dead. 4 We have become a reproach…
1 Maccabees 3:50–52
50 They cried aloud toward heaven, saying, “What should we do with these men? Where should we carry them away? (WEB) 51 Your holy place is trampled down and profaned. Your priests mourn in humiliation. (WEB) 52 Behold, the Gentiles are assembled together against us to destroy us. Y… (WEB)
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