Lamentations 1:22

Lamentations · Old Testament · Chapter 1

“Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.”Lamentations 1:22

What Does Lamentations 1:22 Mean?

Lamentations 1:22 is found in the book of Lamentations, chapter 1, verse 22 of the Old Testament. This verse connects to 16 other passages through cross-references, placing it within a rich network of biblical meaning.

Key themes in this passage include Forgiveness, and Compassion.

Cross-References (16)

These passages are connected to Lamentations 1:22 through shared themes, quotations, or prophetic fulfillment.

Jeremiah 8:18“When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me.”Revelation 6:10“And they cried with a loud voice, saying, How long, O Lord, holy and true, dost thou not judge and avenge our blood on them that dwell on the earth?”Psalms 109:14“Let the iniquity of his fathers be remembered with the LORD; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out.”Nehemiah 4:4“Hear, O our God; for we are despised: and turn their reproach upon their own head, and give them for a prey in the land of captivity:”Lamentations 1:21“They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.”Lamentations 5:17“For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.”Ephesians 3:13“Wherefore I desire that ye faint not at my tribulations for you, which is your glory.”Psalms 137:7“Remember, O LORD, the children of Edom in the day of Jerusalem; who said, Rase it, rase it, even to the foundation thereof.”Isaiah 13:7“Therefore shall all hands be faint, and every man’s heart shall melt:”Isaiah 21:2“A grievous vision is declared unto me; the treacherous dealer dealeth treacherously, and the spoiler spoileth. Go up, O Elam: besiege, O Media; all the sighing thereof have I made to cease.”Jeremiah 10:25“Pour out thy fury upon the heathen that know thee not, and upon the families that call not on thy name: for they have eaten up Jacob, and devoured him, and consumed him, and have made his habitation desolate.”Jeremiah 18:23“Yet, LORD, thou knowest all their counsel against me to slay me: forgive not their iniquity, neither blot out their sin from thy sight, but let them be overthrown before thee; deal thus with them in the time of thine anger.”Jeremiah 45:3“Thou didst say, Woe is me now! for the LORD hath added grief to my sorrow; I fainted in my sighing, and I find no rest.”Jeremiah 51:35“The violence done to me and to my flesh be upon Babylon, shall the inhabitant of Zion say; and my blood upon the inhabitants of Chaldea, shall Jerusalem say.”Lamentations 1:13“From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.”Luke 23:31“For if they do these things in a green tree, what shall be done in the dry?”

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