Lamentations 1:22 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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²²Let 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 1:22 —

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Cross-References

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Jeremiah 8:18
When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.
Nehemiah 4:4-5
Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity: …
Psalms 109:14-15
Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. …
Revelation 6:10
And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?
Lamentations 5:17
For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

Topics

Afflictions and Adversities Blessing Enquiring of God Importunity Prayer Worship

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. 22)

22. Such prayers against foes are lawful, if the foe be an enemy of God, and if our concern be not for our own personal feeling, but for the glory of God and the welfare of His people. come before thee--so Re 16:19, “Babylon came in remembrance before God” (compare Psa 109:15).