Verse Lens · Concise explanation
Lamentations 1:2 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 2. 2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
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Quick Meaning
This verse makes night tears, absent comfort, betrayal, and former friends becoming enemies the first human relationships named.
Read It With
- Lamentations 1:1-7
Read Lamentations 1:2 with 1:1-7. This verse makes night tears, absent comfort, betrayal, and former friends becoming enemies the first human relationships named. The complete unit establishes this movement: A narrator portrays Jerusalem as Daughter Zion: once full, honored, and festive, she is now isolated, betrayed, displaced, weakened, bereaved, and mocked as memory makes present loss more painful.
Why This Verse Appears Here
The opening refuses to begin with explanation; it makes readers see absence, tears, broken relationships, interrupted worship, captive children, and memory before later confession or petition. Within that movement, this verse makes night tears, absent comfort, betrayal, and former friends becoming enemies the first human relationships named.
Phrase-by-Phrase Explanation
“She weepeth sore in the night”
In plain language: This verse makes night tears, absent comfort, betrayal, and former friends becoming enemies the first human relationships named.
Betrayal and missing comfort are real parts of communal grief.
Why it matters: The wording marks this verse's distinct contribution to the poem.
How certain? strongWhat Remains True
Betrayal and missing comfort are real parts of communal grief.
How It Can Shape Life
- Offer reliable presence and do not demand trust from someone recently betrayed.
Continue in Context
The full thought-unit study remains the final contextual authority for this Verse Lens.
Read Lamentations 1:1-7 — The Lonely City Remembers Her LossSources used for this Verse Lens
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
eBible.org and CrossWire Bible Society
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 1:1-7, 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.1.1-Lam.1.7
Open source ↗translation and translator notes
NET Bible: Lamentations with translators' notes
Biblical Studies Press
Biblical Studies Press, 2006
Supports: Verse-level Hebrew, syntax, textual, acrostic, literary, historical, and translation notes.
Exact location: NET Bible Lamentations PDF, printed pp. 1551-1558, translation and notes on 1:1-7
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