Lamentations 1:5 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“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.”
Lamentations 1:5 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 1:5 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 1:5 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.”
Lamentations 1:5 — World English Bible
Lamentations 1:5 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“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. ”
Lamentations 1:5 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 1:5 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“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.”
Lamentations 1:5 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 1:5 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“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. ”
Lamentations 1:5 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 1:5 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Her aduersaries are the chiefe, and her enemies prosper: for the Lord hath afflicted her, for the multitude of her transgressions, and her children are gone into captiuitie before the enemie.”
Lamentations 1:5 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 1:5 in Context — Lamentations 1
3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 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.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
What Does Lamentations 1:5 Mean?
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