Lamentations Chapter 1

Misery of Jerusalem for her sins

1:1 * Jeremiah originally wrote the first, second and forth chapters of Lamentations on a scroll the was then burnt by Jehoiakim.When he rewrote the Book, he added the third and fifth chapters (Rashi; Meed Katan 26a) – From the Artscroll EnglishTanachHow the city sits alone that was once full of people! How she has become like a widow! Once great among the nationsבַגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: ḇagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here, and princess among the provinces, how she has become a slave!
1:2 She weeps bitterly at night, and her tears run down her cheeks: among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her: all her friends have betrayed her, they have become her enemies.
1:3 Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here has gone into captivity because of suffering, and great servitude: She lives among the nationsבַגּוֹיִם‎
Transliteration: ḇagôyim – Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here, she finds no rest: all her pursuers overtook her in dire straits.
1:4 The roadsדַּרְכֵי‎
Transliteration: darḵê – the ways, the roads, the paths, the routes, the distances, the journeys, the manners For more info click here of Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX: Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here are mourning, for lack of festival pilgrims: All her gates are desolate: her priestsכֹּהֲנֶיהָ
kōhănêhā Kohenim = priests, Plural principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here sigh, her maidens grieve, and she is in bitterness.
1:5 Her adversaries have become [her] master, her enemies prosper; because YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here has afflicted her because of her many trespasses: her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
1:6 Gone from the daughter of Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX: Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here is all her beauty: her rulers were like deer that find no pasture, and they walked on without strength before the pursuer.
1:7 Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here recalled in the days of her suffering and sorrow all her pleasant things that she had in the past, with the fall of her people into the enemy’s hand  and no one to help her: the enemies saw and mocking her annihilation.

1:8 Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here sinnedחָטְאָה
Transliteration: ḥāṭ’â – A primitive root From an archery term meaning to miss the mark – For more info click here grievously; So she is unclean: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: She sighs, and turns away.

1:9 Her filthiness is in her hems; she gave no thought to how it would end; So she descended astoundingly: there is no one to comfort her. O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, see my suffering: because the enemy has acted monstrously.
1:10 The enemy has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things: She saw nationsגּוֹיִם‎
Hebrew Noun: Common Masculine Plural Absolute (in the sense of massing); a foreign nation; hence, a Gentile; also (figuratively) a troop of animals, or a flight of locusts:—the Gentiles, the heathen, the nations, the people. For more info click here invade her Sanctuary, about whom You had commanded that they should not enter into Your congregation.
1:11 All her people sigh, searching for bread; they have traded their pleasant things for food to restore the soulנֶפֶשׁ
Transliteration: nep̄eš Pronunciation:neh’-fesh feminine noun Meaning: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion For more info click here: See, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here, and look what a glutton I have become.

1:12 May it not happen to you, all ya’ll that pass by this roadדֶּרֶךְ
Transliteration:dereḵ Pronunciation:deh’-rek way, road, distance, journey, manner, path, direction, toward – For more info click here? look, and see if there is any pain like the pain that is inflicted on me, which YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here made me suffer on the day of His burning anger.
1:13 From on high has He sent fire into my bones, and it overcame them: He has spread a net for my feet, He has turned me backward: He has made me desolate; in misery throughout the day.
1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound in his hand: they are intertwined, and shoved upon my neck: He has sapped my strength. Adonaiאֲדֹנָי
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here has delivered me to hands of those I can’t withstand.
1:15 Adonaiאֲדֹנָי
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here has trampled all my warriors with me: He has set a specific time against me to crush my young men: Like in a winepress Adonaiאֲדֹנָי
 the Lord, Pluralis majestatis taken as singular) is the possessive form of adon (“Lord”), along with the first-person singular pronoun enclitic. As with Elohim, Adonai’s grammatical form is usually explained as a plural of majesty. For more info click here has trodden the maiden daughter of Judahיְהוּדָה‎
Modern: Yəhūda, Tiberian: Yŭhūḏā), literally “thanksgiving” or “praise,” is the noun form of the root Y-D-H (ידה), “to thank” or “to praise. The fourth of the six sons of Jacob and Leah. Also referring to the tribe of Judah or The Kingdom of Judah later referred to as Judea – For more info click here.
1:16 Because of these things I weep; my eye, my eye streams with tears, because a comforter to restore my soulנַפְשִׁי
Transliteration: nap̄šî – Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite,
my mind, my living being, my desire, emotion, passion For more info click here is far from me: My children are in a state of shock, because the enemy has prevailed.
1:17 Zionצִיּוֹן
LXX: Σιών, also variously transliterated Sion,Tzion, Tsion, Tsiyyon Zion = “parched place” often used as a synonym for Jerusalem as well as for the Land of Israel as a whole For more info click here spreads out her hands, [and there is] no one to console her: YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here  commanded against Jacobיַעֲקֹב
(/ˈdʒeɪkəb/; Modern: Yaʿaqōv (help·info), Tiberian: Yaʿăqōḇ; Arabic: يَعْقُوب, romanized: Yaʿqūb; Greek: Ἰακώβ, romanized: Iakṓb) the name Yaʿaqōv יעקב is derived from ʿaqev עָקֵב “heel”, as Jacob (later called Israel) was born grasping the heel of his twin brother Esau. for more info click here, that his adversaries should surround him: Jerusalemיְרוּשָׁלַם‎
Transliteration: yᵊrûšālam – Pronunciation: yer-oo-shaw-lah’-im – proper locative noun meaning “teaching of peace” or possession of peace – also called the city of David and Zion – the chief city of Palestine and capital of the united kingdom and the nation of Judah after the split For more info click here is like a menstruous woman among them.

Confessions of God’s Justice

1:18 YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here is righteousצַדִּיק‎
Transliteration ṣadîq Pronunciation tsad-deek’ To do what is right Tzadik is also the root of the word tzedakah (‘charity’, literally ‘righteousness’). justice, rightness, righteousness – For more info click here; because I have disobeyed His word: Listen, now, all you people, and see my pain: My maidens and my young men have gone into captivity.
1:19 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priestsכֹּהֲנַי
kōhănay’ Kohenim = priests, Plural – principal officers or chief rulers For more info click here and my elders perished in the city, while they sought food for themselves to restore their soulsנַפְשָׁם
Transliteration: nap̄šām Hebrew Noun: Common Both Singular Construct – Meaning: my soul, myself, my life, my creature, my person, my appetite, my mind, my living being, my desire, my emotion, my passion For more info click here.
1:20 Look, O YAHWEH יְהֹוָה‎
Hebrew Yəhōwā, one vocalization of the Tetragrammaton יהוה‎ (YHWH), the proper name of the God of Israel in the Hebrew Bible/Old Testament. It is considered one of the seven names of God in Judaism and a form of God’s name in Christianity. Covenant making covenant keeping GOD. For more info click here; because I am in distress: my bowels boil; my heart is turned over inside me because I have grievously rebelled: Outside the sword makes childless, inside it’s like death.
1:21 They heard how I sigh: there is no one to comfort me: All my enemies heard of my evil rejoiced because it was You Who did it:  Bring the day that You have promised, and let them be like me!
1:22 Let all their wickedness come before you; then do to them, like you have done to me for all my transgressions: because my sighs are many, and my heart is sick.