A pitiful complaint of Zion in prayer unto God.

remember La 1:20 2:20 3:19 Ne 1:8 Job 7:7 10:9 Jer 15:15 Hab 3:2 Lu 23:42

behold La 2:15 3:61 Ne 1:3 4:4 Ps 44:13-16 74:10,11 79:4,12 89:50,51 123:3,4

2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

De 28:30 Ps 79:1,2 Isa 1:7 5:17 63:18 Jer 6:12 Eze 7:21,24 Zep 1:13

3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

Ex 22:24 Jer 18:21 Ho 14:3

4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

have De 28:48 Isa 3:1 Eze 4:9-17

is sold. Heb. cometh for price

5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.

our necks are under persecution. Heb. on our necks are we persecuted La 1:14 4:19 De 28:48,65,66 Jer 27:2,8,11,12 28:14 Mt 11:29 Ac 15:10

labour Ne 9:36,37

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

given Ge 24:2 2Ki 10:15 Jer 50:15 Eze 17:18

to the Egyptians Isa 30:1-6 31:1-3 57:9 Jer 2:18,36 44:12-14 Ho 5:13 7:11 9:3 12:1

7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.

fathers Ex 20:5 Jer 16:12 31:29 Eze 18:2 Mt 23:32-36

and are Ge 42:13,36 Job 7:8,21 Jer 31:15 Zec 1:5

8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.

servants Ge 9:25 De 28:43 Ne 2:19 5:15 Pr 30:22

there Job 5:4 10:7 Ps 7:2 50:22 Isa 43:13 Ho 2:10 Zec 11:6

9 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

Jud 6:11 2Sa 23:17 Jer 40:9-12 41:1-10,18 Eze 4:16,17 12:18,19

10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

skin La 3:4 4:8 Job 30:30 Ps 119:83

terrible famine, or terrors, or storms of famine

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

De 28:30 Isa 13:16 Zec 14:2

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

La 2:10,20 4:16 Isa 47:6 Jer 39:6,7 52:10,11,25-27

13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

the young Ex 11:5 Jud 16:21 Job 31:10 Isa 47:2

fell Ex 1:11 2:11 23:5 Ne 5:1-5 Isa 58:6 Mt 23:4

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

elders La 1:4,19 2:10 De 16:18 Job 29:7-17 30:1 Isa 3:2,3

the young Job 30:31 Isa 24:7-11 Jer 7:34 16:9 25:10 Eze 26:13 Re 18:22

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

our dance Ps 30:11 Am 6:4-7 8:10 Jas 4:9,10

16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

the crown La 1:1 Job 19:9 Ps 89:39 Jer 13:18 Eze 21:26 Re 2:10 3:11

is fallen from our head. Heb. of our head is fallen. woe La 1:8,18 2:1 4:13 Pr 14:34 Isa 3:9-11 Jer 2:17,19 4:18 Eze 7:17-22 22:12-16 2Pe 2:4-6

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

our heart La 1:13,22 Le 26:36 Isa 1:5 Jer 8:18 46:5 Eze 21:7,15 Mic 6:13

our eyes La 2:11 De 28:65 Job 17:7 Ps 6:7 31:9 69:3 Isa 38:14

18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

of the La 2:8,9 1Ki 9:7,8 Ps 74:2,3 Jer 17:3 26:9 52:13 Mic 3:12

the foxes Isa 32:13,14 Jer 9:11

19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

remainest De 33:27 Ps 9:7 10:16 29:10 90:2 102:12,25-27 Hab 1:12 1Ti 1:17 6:15,16 Heb 1:10-12 13:8 Re 1:4,8,17,18

thy throne Ps 45:6 145:13 146:10 Da 2:44 7:14,27 Heb 1:8,9

20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

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

so long time. Heb. for length of days

21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

turn 1Ki 18:37 Ps 80:3,7,19 85:4 Jer 31:18 32:39,40 Ex 36:25-27,37 Hab 3:2

renew Jer 31:4,23-25 33:10,13 Zec 8:3-6 Mal 3:4

22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.

but thou hast utterly rejected us. or, for wilt thou utterly reject us? Ps 44:9 60:1,2 Jer 15:1-5 Eze 37:11 Ho 1:6