Lamentations 1:2 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²She 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 1:2 —

Old words in this verse

sore: — greatly, very (as in "sore afraid").

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
Micah 7:5
Trust ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide: keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bosom.
Jeremiah 4:30
And when thou art spoiled, what wilt thou do? Though thou clothest thyself with crimson, though thou deckest thee with ornaments of gold, though thou rentest thy face with painting, in vain shalt thou make thyself fair; thy lovers will despise thee, they will seek thy life.
Jeremiah 13:17
But if ye will not hear it, my soul shall weep in secret places for your pride; and mine eye shall weep sore, and run down with tears, because the LORD'S flock is carried away captive.
Job 19:13-14
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. …

Topics

Conceit Consistency Deceit Deception Dishonesty Dissembling Falsehood Friends

Commentary

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

(vv. 1-11)

Those that have any disposition to weep with those that weep, one would think, should scarcely be able to refrain from tears at the reading of these verses, so very pathetic are the lamentations here. I. The miseries of Jerusalem are here complained of as very pressing and by many circumstances very much aggravated. Let us take a view of these miseries. 1. As to their civil state. (1.) A city that…

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

(vv. 2)

2. in the night--even in the night, the period of rest and oblivion of griefs (Job 7:3). lovers ... friends--the heathen states allied to Judah, and their idols. The idols whom she “loved” (Jr 2:20-25) could not comfort her. Her former allies would not: nay, some “treacherously” joined her enemies against her (2Ki 24:2, 7; Psa 137:7). Gimel.