Treasury of Scripture Knowledge He. Her adversaries are become her lords; her enemies are enriched; because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of her iniquities; her children are led into captivity, before the face of the oppressor. Adversaries Lamentations 2:17 Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries. Lamentations 3:46 Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. Leviticus 26:17 I will set my face against you, and you shall fall down before your enemies: and shall be made subject to them that hate you. You shall flee when no man pursueth you. Deuteronomy 28:43,44 The stranger that liveth with thee in the land, shall rise up over thee, and shall be higher: and thou shalt go down, and be lower. . . . Psalm 80:6 Thou hast made us to be a contradiction to our neighbours: and our enemies have scoffed at us. Psalm 89:42 Thou hast set up the right hand of them that oppress him: thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice. Isaiah 63:18 They have possessed thy holy people as nothing: our enemies have trodden down thy sanctuary. Jeremiah 12:7 I have forsaken my house, I have left my inheritance: I have given my dear soul into the hand of her enemies. Micah 7:8-10 Rejoice not, thou my enemy, over me, because I am fallen: I shall arise, when I sit in darkness, the Lord is my light. . . . for Lamentations 1:18 Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins, and my young men are gone into captivity. Lamentations 3:39-43 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering for his sins? . . . Leviticus 26:15 If you despise my laws, and contemn my judgments so as not to do those things which are appointed by me, and to make void my covenant: Deuteronomy 4:25-27 If you shall beget sons and grandsons, and abide in the land, and being deceived, make to yourselves any similitude, committing evil before the Lord your God, to provoke him to wrath: . . . Deuteronomy 28:15 But if thou wilt not hear the voice of the Lord thy God, to keep and to do all his commandments and ceremonies, which I command thee this day, all these curses shall come upon thee, and overtake thee. Deuteronomy 29:18-28 Lest perhaps there should be among you a man or a woman, a family or a tribe, whose heart is turned away this day from the Lord our God, to go and serve the gods of those nations: and there should be among you a root bringing forth gall and bitterness. . . . Deuteronomy 31:16-18,29 And the Lord said to Moses: Behold thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, and this people rising up will go a fornicating after strange gods in the land, to which it goeth in to dwell: there will they forsake me, and will make void the covenant, which I have made with them, . . . Deuteronomy 32:15-27 The beloved grew fat, and kicked: he grew fat, and thick and gross, he forsook God who made him, and departed from God his saviour. . . . 2 Chronicles 36:14-16 Moreover all the chief of the priests, and the people wickedly transgressed according to all the abominations of the Gentiles: and they defiled the house of the Lord, which he had sanctified to himself in Jerusalem. . . . Nehemiah 9:33,34 And thou art just in all things that have come upon us: because thou hast done truth, but we have done wickedly. . . . Psalm 90:7,8 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation. . . . Jeremiah 5:3-9,29 O Lord, thy eyes are upon truth: thou hast struck them, and they have not grieved: thou hast bruised them, and they have refused to receive correction: they have made their faces harder than the rock, and they have refused to return. . . . Jeremiah 23:14 And I have seen the likeness of adulterers, and the way of lying in the prophets of Jerusalem: and they strengthened the hands of the wicked, that no man should return from his evil doings, they are all become unto me as Sodom, and the inhabitants thereof as Gomorrha. Jeremiah 30:14,15 All thy lovers have forgotten thee, and will not seek after thee: for I have wounded thee with the wound of an enemy, with cruel chastisement: by reason of the multitude of thy iniquities, thy sins are hardened. . . . Jeremiah 44:21,22 Was it not the sacrifice that you offered in the cities of Juda, and in the streets of Jerusalem, you and your fathers, your kings, and your princes, and the people of the land, which the Lord hath remembered, and hath it not entered into his heart? . . . Ezekiel 8:17,18 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a branch to their nose. . . . Ezekiel 9:9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not. Ezekiel 22:24-31 Son of man, say to her: Thou art a land that is unclean, and not rained upon in the day of wrath. . . . Daniel 9:7-16 To thee, O Lord, justice: but to us confusion of face, as at this day to the men of Juda, and to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to all Israel, to them that are near, and to them that are far off, in all the countries whither thou hast driven them, for their iniquities, by which they have sinned against thee. . . . Micah 3:9-12 But yet I am filled with the strength of the spirit of the Lord, with judgment and power: to declare unto Jacob his wickedness and to Israel his sin. . . . Zephaniah 3:1-8 Woe to the provoking and redeemed city, the dove. . . . her children Jeremiah 39:9 And Nabuzardan the general of the army carried away captive to Babylon the remnant of the people that remained in the city, and the fugitives that had gone over to him, and the rest of the people that remained. Jeremiah 52:27-30 And the king of Babylon struck them, and put them to death in Reblatha, in the land of Emath: and Juda was carried away captive out of his land. . . . Context How Lonely Lies the City…4Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; her virgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. 5He. Her adversaries are become her lords; her enemies are enriched; because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of her iniquities; her children are led into captivity, before the face of the oppressor.6Vau. And from the daughter of Sion, all her beauty is departed; her princes are become like rams that find no pastures; and they are gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.… Cross References Psalm 90:7 For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation. Psalm 90:8 Thou hast set our iniquities before thy eyes: our life in the light of thy countenance. Isaiah 22:5 For it is a day of slaughter and of treading down, and of weeping to the Lord the God of hosts in the valley of vision, searching the wall, and magnificent upon the mountain. Jeremiah 10:20 My tabernacle is laid waste, all my cords are broken: my children are gone out from me, and they are not: there is none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains. Lamentations 1:8 Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they have seen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward. Lamentations 2:17 Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and hath set up the horn of thy adversaries. Ezekiel 8:17 And he said to me: Surely thou hast seen, O son of man: is this a light thing to the house of Juda, that they should commit these abominations which they have committed here: because they have filled the land with iniquity, and have turned to provoke me to anger? and behold they put a branch to their nose. Ezekiel 8:18 Therefore I also will deal with them in my wrath: my eye shall not spare them, neither will I shew mercy: and when they shall cry to my ears with a loud voice, I will not hear them. Ezekiel 9:9 And he said to me: The iniquity of the house of Israel, and of Juda, is exceeding great, and the land is filled with blood, and the city is filled with perverseness: for they have said: The Lord hath forsaken the earth, and the Lord seeth not. Ezekiel 9:10 Therefore neither shall my eye spare, nor will I have pity: I will requite their way upon their head. Lexicon Her foesצָרֶ֤יהָ (ṣā·re·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent have become הָי֨וּ (hā·yū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be her masters; לְרֹאשׁ֙ (lə·rōš) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7218: The head her enemies אֹיְבֶ֣יהָ (’ō·yə·ḇe·hā) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 341: Hating, an adversary are at ease. שָׁל֔וּ (šā·lū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 7951: To be tranquil, secure, successful For כִּֽי־ (kî-) Conjunction Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction the LORD יְהוָ֥ה (Yah·weh) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 3068: LORD -- the proper name of the God of Israel has brought her grief הוֹגָ֖הּ (hō·w·ḡāh) Verb - Hifil - Perfect - third person masculine singular | third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 3013: To grieve because of עַ֣ל (‘al) Preposition Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against her many רֹב־ (rōḇ-) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's Hebrew 7230: Multitude, abundance, greatness transgressions. פְּשָׁעֶ֑יהָ (pə·šā·‘e·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 6588: Transgression Her children עוֹלָלֶ֛יהָ (‘ō·w·lā·le·hā) Noun - masculine plural construct | third person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew 5768: A suckling have gone away הָלְכ֥וּ (hā·lə·ḵū) Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk as captives שְׁבִ֖י (šə·ḇî) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 7628: Exiled, captured, exile, booty before לִפְנֵי־ (lip̄·nê-) Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural construct Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face the enemy. צָֽר׃ (ṣār) Noun - masculine singular Strong's Hebrew 6862: Narrow, a tight place, a pebble, an opponent Additional Translations Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; For Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: Her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary. HE. Her oppressors are become the head, and her enemies have prospered; for the Lord has afflicted her because of the multitude of her sins: her young children are gone into captivity before the face of the oppressor. Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper; for Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the adversary. Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary. Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. Her adversaries are become the head, her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the adversary. Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have been at ease, For Jehovah hath afflicted her, For the abundance of her transgressions, Her infants have gone captive before the adversary. 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