Lamentations 1:11 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.”
Lamentations 1:11 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 1:11 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 1:11 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see, for I have become despised.””
Lamentations 1:11 — World English Bible
Lamentations 1:11 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“All her people sigh, they seek bread; They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul: See, O Jehovah, and behold; for I am become abject. ”
Lamentations 1:11 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 1:11 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“All her people are sighing--seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.”
Lamentations 1:11 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 1:11 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their precious things for food to revive [their] soul. See, Jehovah, and consider, for I am become vile. ”
Lamentations 1:11 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 1:11 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“All her people sigh and seeke their bread: they haue giuen their pleasant thinges for meate to refresh the soule: see, O Lord, and consider: for I am become vile.”
Lamentations 1:11 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 1:11 in Context — Lamentations 1
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.
12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
What Does Lamentations 1:11 Mean?
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