Lamentations 1:22
Good News Translation
"Condemn them for all their wickedness; Punish them as you punished me for my sins. I groan in misery, and I am sick at heart."

New Revised Standard Version
Let all their evil doing come before you; and deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions; for my groans are many and my heart is faint.

Contemporary English Version
Don't let their evil deeds escape your sight. Punish them as much as you have punished me because of my sins. I never stop groaning--I've lost all hope!

New American Bible
Let all their evil come before you and deal with them As you have so ruthlessly dealt with me for all my rebellions. My groans are many, my heart is sick.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Thau. Let all their evil be present before thee: and make vintage of them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Thau. Let all their evil be present before thee: and make vintage of them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.

all their

Nehemiah 4:4,5 Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity. . . .

Psalm 109:14,15 May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered in the sight of the Lord: and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out. . . .

Psalm 137:7-9 Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof. . . .

Jeremiah 10:25 Pour out thy indignation upon the nations that have not known thee, and upon the provinces that have not called upon thy name: because they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have destroyed his glory.

Jeremiah 18:23 But thou, O Lord, knowest all their counsel against me unto death: not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from thy sight: let them be overthrown before thy eyes, in the time of thy wrath do thou destroy them.

Jeremiah 51:35 The wrong done to me, and my flesh be upon Babylon, saith the habitation of Sion: and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, saith Jerusalem.

Luke 23:31 For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done in the dry?

Revelation 6:10 And they cried with a loud voice, saying: How long, O Lord (Holy and True), dost thou not judge and revenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?

my heart

Lamentations 1:13 Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.

Lamentations 5:17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our eyes become dim.

Isaiah 13:7 Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every heart of man shall melt,

Jeremiah 8:18 My sorrow is above sorrow, my heart mourneth within me.

Ephesians 3:13 Wherefore I pray you not to faint at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.

Context
How Lonely Lies the City
21Sin. They have heard that I sigh, and there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my evil, they have rejoiced that thou hast done it: thou hast brought a day of consolation, and they shall be like unto me. 22Thau. Let all their evil be present before thee: and make vintage of them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities: for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.
Cross References
Nehemiah 4:4
Hear thou our God, for we are despised: turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them to be despised in a land of captivity.

Nehemiah 4:5
Cover not their iniquity, and let not their sin be blotted out from before thy face, because they have mocked thy builders.

Psalm 137:7
Remember, O Lord, the children of Edom, in the day of Jerusalem: Who say: Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.

Psalm 137:8
O daughter of Babylon, miserable: blessed shall he be who shall repay thee thy payment which thou hast paid us.

Psalm 143:7
Hear me speedily, O Lord: my spirit hath fainted away. Turn not away thy face from me, lest I be like unto them that go down into the pit.

Lamentations 1:21
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