Lamentations 1:19 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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¹⁹I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

Lamentations 1:19 —

Old words in this verse

ghost: — spirit, breath of life.
meat: — food of any kind.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 1:2
She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Lamentations 2:20
Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
Lamentations 1:11
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.
Job 19:13-19
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. …
Jeremiah 37:7-9
Thus saith the LORD, the God of Israel; Thus shall ye say to the king of Judah, that sent you unto me to enquire of me; Behold, Pharaoh's army, which is come forth to help you, shall return to Egypt into their own land. …

Topics

Canaan Dead (people)Death Drought Dying Famine Hunger Life

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 12-22)

The complaints here are, for substance, the same with those in the foregoing part of the chapter; but in these verses the prophet, in the name of the lamenting church, does more particularly acknowledge the hand of god in these calamities, and the righteousness of his hand.[47a5 /P] I. The church in distress here magnifies her affliction, and yet no more than there was cause for; her groaning was…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 19)

19. lovers--(La 1:2; Jr 30:14). elders--in dignity, not merely age. sought ... meat--Their dignity did not exempt them from having to go and seek bread (La 1:11). Resh.