Lamentations 1:18
The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Context
This verse from Lamentations Chapter 1 connects to 10 cross-references. The first lament personifies Jerusalem as a widow, formerly great among nations, now grieving and desolate, her roads mourning, her priests groaning, her children gone. Judah has gone into exile. The poem is an alphabetic acrostic in which Zion confesses …
Other Translations
Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my sorrow: My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
Righteous is Jehovah, For His mouth I have provoked. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and see my pain, My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.
Cross References
And Pharaoh sent, and called for Moses and Aaron, and said unto them, I have sinned this time: the Lord …
He is the Rock, his work is perfect: for all his ways are judgment: a God of truth and without …
And the Lord rooted them out of their land in anger, and in wrath, and in great indignation, and cast …
So that the generation to come of your children that shall rise up after you, and the stranger that shall …
Thou shalt beget sons and daughters, but thou shalt not enjoy them; for they shall go into captivity.
Thy sons and thy daughters shall be given unto another people, and thine eyes shall look, and fail with longing …
And Adoni–bezek said, Threescore and ten kings, having their thumbs and their great toes cut off, gathered their meat under …
For rebellion is as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as iniquity and idolatry. Because thou hast rejected the …
But if ye will not obey the voice of the Lord, but rebel against the commandment of the Lord, then …
If ye will fear the Lord, and serve him, and obey his voice, and not rebel against the commandment of …