Lamentations 1:8 — Bible Verse (KJV)
“Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.”
Lamentations 1:8 — King James Version (KJV), 1611
Lamentations 1:8 in 6 Bible Translations
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Lamentations 1:8 WEB — World English Bible (2000)
“Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs and turns backward.”
Lamentations 1:8 — World English Bible
Lamentations 1:8 ASV — American Standard Version (1901)
“Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. ”
Lamentations 1:8 — American Standard Version
Lamentations 1:8 YLT — Young's Literal Translation (1862)
“A sin hath Jerusalem sinned, Therefore impure she hath become, All who honoured her have esteemed her lightly, For they have seen her nakedness, Yea, she herself hath sighed and turneth backward.”
Lamentations 1:8 — Young's Literal Translation
Lamentations 1:8 DBY — Darby Translation (1890)
“Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore is she removed as an impurity: all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness; and she sigheth, and turneth backward. ”
Lamentations 1:8 — Darby Translation
Lamentations 1:8 GEN — Geneva Bible (1599)
“Ierusalem hath grieuously sinned, therefore shee is in derision: all that honoured her, despise her, because they haue seene her filthinesse: yea, she sigheth and turneth backeward.”
Lamentations 1:8 — Geneva Bible
Lamentations 1:8 in Context — Lamentations 1
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.
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
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.
What Does Lamentations 1:8 Mean?
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