Cross references
Lamentations 1:17
Zion stretches out her hands,
but there is no one to comfort her.
The LORD has decreed against Jacob
that his neighbors become his foes.
Jerusalem has become
an unclean thing among them.
Lamentations 1:17 has 23 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Jeremiah 4:31 (6 votes) and Isaiah 1:15 (5 votes). 10 other verses point back to it. It links with 9 other books, from Leviticus 15 to Luke 19.
Which verses does Lamentations 1:17 point to?
The 20 strongest of 23, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Jeremiah 4:316 votes
For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”
- Isaiah 1:155 votes
When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you; even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are covered with blood.
- Lamentations 1:94 votes
Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!
- 2 Kings 24:2–43 votes
And the LORD sent Chaldean, Aramean, Moabite, and Ammonite raiders against Jehoiakim in order to destroy Judah, according to the word that the LORD had spoken through His servants the prophets. Surely this happened to Judah at the LORD’s command, to remove them from His presence because of the sins of Manasseh and all that he had done, …
- 2 Kings 25:13 votes
So in the ninth year of Zedekiah’s reign, on the tenth day of the tenth month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon marched against Jerusalem with his entire army. They encamped outside the city and built a siege wall all around it.
- Jeremiah 21:4–53 votes
this is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: ‘I will turn against you the weapons of war in your hands, with which you are fighting the king of Babylon and the Chaldeans who besiege you outside the wall, and I will assemble their forces in the center of this city. And I Myself will fight against you with an outstretched hand and a mighty arm, with anger, fury, and great wrath.
- Jeremiah 34:223 votes
Behold, I am going to give the command, declares the LORD, and I will bring them back to this city. They will fight against it, capture it, and burn it down. And I will make the cities of Judah a desolation, without inhabitant.”
- Lamentations 1:163 votes
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
- Lamentations 1:193 votes
I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.
- Leviticus 15:19–272 votes
When a woman has a discharge consisting of blood from her body, she will be unclean due to her menstruation for seven days, and anyone who touches her will be unclean until evening. Anything on which she lies or sits during her menstruation will be unclean, …
- 1 Kings 8:222 votes
- 1 Kings 8:382 votes
- Jeremiah 6:32 votes
- Jeremiah 16:62 votes
- Lamentations 1:22 votes
She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
- Lamentations 1:212 votes
People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.
- Lamentations 2:1–82 votes
- Lamentations 2:17–222 votes
- Lamentations 4:152 votes
- Ezekiel 7:23–242 votes
Which verses point to Lamentations 1:17?
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