Lamentations 1:19
I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
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
I called for my lovers, butthey deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
I called for my lovers, they--they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.
I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
Cross References
He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me.
All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.
But where are thy gods that thou hast made thee? let them arise, if they can save thee in the …
Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, and I sent them not, yet they …
If I go forth into the field, then behold the slain with the sword! and if I enter into the …
For both prophet and priest are profane; yea, in my house have I found their wickedness, saith the Lord.
Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets; Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them …
Why will ye die, thou and thy people, by the sword, by the famine, and by the pestilence, as the …
For I have not sent them, saith the Lord, yet they prophesy a lie in my name; that I might …
All thy lovers have forgotten thee; they seek thee not; for I have wounded thee with the wound of an …