Quotes about Lamentations
Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?
— Lamentations 2:20
Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.
— Lamentations 2:21
Let him bury his face in the dust—perhaps there is still hope.
— Lamentations 3:29
When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
— Lamentations 3:63
The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.
— Lamentations 2:10
How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.
— Lamentations 2:1
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.
— Lamentations 3:55
But this I call to mind, and therefore I have hope: The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases, his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness" (Lam 3:21—23).
— Kathleen Norris
How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.
— Lamentations 1:1
My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.
— Lamentations 2:11
Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!
— Lamentations 5:1
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
— Lamentations 5:16