The Preacher's Bible

Remember, Jehovah, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach.

Ne 1:3, Ne 1:8, Ne 4:4, Jb 7:7, Jb 10:9, Ps 44:13-16, Ps 74:10-11, Ps 79:4, Ps 79:12, Ps 89:50-51, Ps 123:3-4, Je 15:15, Lm 1:20, Lm 2:15, Lm 2:20, Lm 3:19, Lm 3:61, Hb 3:2, Lk 23:42

²Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Dt 28:30-68, Ps 79:1-2, Is 1:7, Is 5:17, Is 63:18, Je 6:12, Ez 7:21, Ez 7:24, Zp 1:13

³We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

Ex 22:24, Je 15:8, Je 18:21, Hs 14:3

⁴We must pay for water to drink. Our wood is sold to us.

Dt 28:48, Is 3:1, Ez 4:9-17

⁵Our pursuers are on our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

Dt 28:48, Dt 28:65-66, Ne 9:36-37, Je 27:2, Je 27:8, Je 27:11-12, Je 28:14, Lm 1:14, Lm 4:19, Mt 11:29, Ac 15:10

⁶We have given our hands to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

Gn 24:2, 2Kg 10:15, Is 30:1-6, Is 31:1-3, Is 57:9, Je 2:18, Je 2:36, Je 44:12-14, Je 50:15, Ez 17:18, Hs 5:13, Hs 7:11, Hs 9:3, Hs 12:1

⁷Our fathers sinned, and are no more. We have borne their iniquities.

Gn 42:13, Gn 42:36, Ex 20:5, Jb 7:8, Jb 7:21, Je 14:20, Je 16:12, Je 31:15, Je 31:29, Ez 18:2, Zc 1:5, Mt 23:32-36

⁸Servants rule over us. There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.

Gn 9:25, Dt 28:43, Ne 2:19, Ne 5:15, Jb 5:4, Jb 10:7, Ps 7:2, Ps 50:22, Pr 30:22, Is 43:13, Hs 2:10, Zc 11:6

⁹We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword in the wilderness.

Jg 6:11, 2Sm 23:17, Je 40:9-12, Je 41:1-10, Je 41:18, Je 42:14, Je 42:16, Ez 4:16-17, Ez 12:18-19

¹⁰Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

Jb 30:30, Ps 119:83, Lm 3:4, Lm 4:8

¹¹They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

Dt 28:30, Is 13:16, Zc 14:2

¹²Princes were hanged up by their hands. The faces of elders were not honored.

Is 47:6, Je 39:6-7, Je 52:10-11, Je 52:25-27, Lm 2:10, Lm 2:20, Lm 4:16

¹³The young men carry millstones. The children stumbled under loads of wood.

Ex 1:11, Ex 2:11, Ex 11:5, Ex 23:5, Jg 16:21, Ne 5:1-5, Jb 31:10, Is 47:2, Is 58:6, Mt 23:4

¹⁴The elders have ceased from the gate, and the young men from their music.

Dt 16:18, Jb 29:7-17, Jb 30:1, Jb 30:31, Is 3:2-3, Is 24:7-11, Je 7:34, Je 16:9, Je 25:10, Lm 1:4, Lm 1:19, Lm 2:10, Ez 26:13, Rv 18:22

¹⁵The joy of our heart has ceased. Our dance is turned into mourning.

Ps 30:11, Je 25:10, Am 6:4-7, Am 8:10, Js 4:9-10

¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!

Jb 19:9, Ps 89:39, Pr 14:34, Is 3:9-11, Je 2:17, Je 2:19, Je 4:18, Je 13:18, Lm 1:1, Lm 1:8, Lm 1:18, Lm 2:1, Lm 4:13, Ez 7:17-22, Ez 21:26, Ez 22:12-16, 2Pe 2:4-6, Rv 2:10, Rv 3:11

¹⁷For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim:

Lv 26:36, Dt 28:65, Jb 17:7, Ps 6:7, Ps 31:9, Ps 69:3, Is 1:5, Is 38:14, Je 8:18, Je 46:5, Lm 1:13, Lm 1:22, Lm 2:11, Ez 21:7, Ez 21:15, Mi 6:13

¹⁸for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk on it.

1Kg 9:7-8, Ps 74:2-3, Is 32:13-14, Je 9:11, Je 17:3, Je 26:9, Je 52:13, Lm 2:8-9, Mi 3:12

¹⁹You, Jehovah, remain forever. Your throne is from generation to generation.

²⁰Why do you forget us forever, and forsake us for so long a time?

Ps 13:1, Ps 44:24, Ps 74:1, Ps 77:7-10, Ps 79:5, Ps 85:5, Ps 89:46, Ps 94:3-4, Is 64:9-12, Je 14:19-21

²¹Turn us to yourself, Jehovah, and we will be turned. Renew our days as of old.

1Kg 18:37, Ps 80:3, Ps 80:7, Ps 80:19, Ps 85:4, Je 31:4, Je 31:18, Je 31:23-25, Je 32:39-40, Je 33:10, Je 33:13, Ez 11:19-20, Ez 36:25-27, Ez 36:37, Hb 3:2, Zc 8:3-6, Mc 3:4

²²But you have utterly rejected us. You are very angry against us.

Ps 44:9, Ps 60:1-2, Is 64:9, Je 15:1-5, Ez 37:11, Hs 1:6

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