What Does Lamentations 1:8 Mean?

“hath grievously”

a crime or its penalty

“sinned”

properly, to miss; hence (figuratively and generally) to sin; by inference, to forfeit, lack, expiate, repent, (causatively) lead astray, condemn

“Jerusalem”

jerushalaim or jerushalem, the capital city of palestine

above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications

properly, set upright; hence (figuratively as adjective) just; but usually (as adverb or conjunction) rightly or so (in various applications to manner

“therefore she is removed”

removal, i.e., exile

to exist, i.e., be or become, come to pass (always emphatic, and not a mere copula or auxiliary)

properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)

“all that honoured”

to be heavy, i.e., in a bad sense (burdensome, severe, dull) or in a good sense (numerous, rich, honorable); causatively, to make weighty (in the same

“her despise”

probably to shake out, i.e., (by implication) to scatter profusely; figuratively, to treat lightly

(by implication) very widely used as a relative conjunction or adverb (as below); often largely modified by other particles annexed

“her because they have seen”

to see, literally or figuratively (in numerous applications, direct and implied, transitive, intransitive and causative)

“her nakedness”

nudity, literally (especially the pudenda) or figuratively (disgrace, blemish)

properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and

he (she or it); only expressed when emphatic or without a verb; also (intensively) self, or (especially with the article) the same; sometimes (as demo

“yea she sigheth”

to sigh

“and turneth”

to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively (not necessarily with the idea of return to the starting point);

“backward”

the hinder part; hence (adverb) behind, backward; also (as facing north) the west