Lamentations 1:16-18
EasyEnglish Bible
16 We weep because of these things.
Tears run down our faces because God is not with us.
Nobody will help us.
We are the children of this city
and we have nothing now.
The enemy has won.’[a]
17 Zion's people ask for help,
but nobody is their friend.
They are Jacob's children.[b]
But the Lord has said that he will cause their enemies
to come from every country near them.
Those other people think about Jerusalem as they would think about something dirty.[c]
18 ‘The Lord is right to punish us.
We have not obeyed him.[d]
Listen, all people everywhere, and look at us.
We are in very bad trouble.
The enemy has taken away our young women
and our young men to be slaves.’
Footnotes
- 1:16 Jeremiah speaks again
- 1:17 Jacob was the ancestor of all the Israelites. The Bible sometimes uses the name Jacob to mean all God's people, the Israelites. God often saved the Israelites from troubles. Now they are in trouble because they have turned against God.
- 1:17 Verses 18-22 The city's people speak again.
- 1:18 When God causes trouble, he causes it for a reason. People should know that he is right. Some people might say that he is wrong. If they say that, they do not understand either him or themselves. See 2 Chronicles 12:5-6.
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