Verse Lens · Context pointer
Lamentations 1:10 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 10. 10The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
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Role in This Section
This verse names the adversary's seizure of treasured things and unauthorized entry into the sanctuary.
Read It With
- Lamentations 1:8-11
Read Lamentations 1:10 with 1:8-11. This verse names the adversary's seizure of treasured things and unauthorized entry into the sanctuary. The complete unit establishes this movement: The narrator names Jerusalem's grievous sin while refusing to hide degrading exposure, violated sacred space, and people exchanging treasured possessions for food; the city's voice breaks through twice to ask God to see.
Why It Needs Context
Read this line with Lamentations 1:8-11. The surrounding alphabet stanza supplies the complete lament movement summarized here: The narrator names Jerusalem's grievous sin while refusing to hide degrading exposure, violated sacred space, and people exchanging treasured possessions for food; the city's voice breaks through twice to ask God to see.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Lamentations 1:8-11 — Shame, Desecration, and Hunger Become PrayerSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed Scripture, paragraph markers, supplied-word markup, and canonical verse coverage.
Exact location: Lamentations 1:8-11, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Lamentations
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording, morphology, alphabet sequence, person and number, repeated vocabulary, and translation questions.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v.2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Lam.xml, OSIS Lam.1.8-Lam.1.11
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