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Lamentations 1:9 Cross-References
Explore 20 cross-references for Lamentations 1:9 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Lamentations chapter 1 verse 9 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.”
Lamentations 1:9 (KJV)
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Commentary on Lamentations 1:9
The verse begins with a troubling image: "Her filthiness is in her skirts." The Hebrew tum'atah be-shuleha (טֻמְאָתָהּ בְּשׁוּלֶיהָ) continues the feminine personification, with "skirts" (shul) referring to the hem or train of a garment. In biblical symbolism, garment hems touching unclean things made the wearer ceremonially defiled (Haggai 2:12-13). Jerusalem's defilement is visible, public, and pervasive—contaminating everything she touches. The indictment intensifies: "she remembereth not her last end" (lo zachrah acharitah, לֹא זָכְרָה אַחֲרִיתָהּ). Despite prophetic warnings from Isaiah,...
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Cross-References for Lamentations 1:9
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“that they understood this”
“I shall be mistress forever; so that you did not lay these things to your heart”
“Look upon mine affliction and my pain; and forgive all my sins.”
“that those who are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.”
“the tears of those who were oppressed”
“Also in thy skirts is found the blood of the souls of the poor innocents: I have not found it by secret search”
“setting himself up as God.”
“my soul shall weep in secret for [your] pride; and my eye shall weep sore”
“and deliver me”
“and Judah is fallen; because their tongue and their doings are against Yahweh”