Lamentations 1:21 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²¹They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.

Lamentations 1:21 —

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 1:8
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
Lamentations 1:22
Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Lamentations 2:15
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
Lamentations 1:16
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Jeremiah 50:11
Because ye were glad, because ye rejoiced, O ye destroyers of mine heritage, because ye are grown fat as the heifer at grass, and bellow as bulls;

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. 21)

21. they are glad that thou hast done it--because they thought that therefore Judah is irretrievably ruined (Jr 40:3). the day ... called--(but) thou wilt bring on them the day of calamity which thou hast announced, namely, by the prophets (Jr 50:1-46; 48:27). like ... me--in calamities (Psa 137:8, 9; Jr 51:25, &c.). Tau.