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Lamentations 1:7 Explained in Context
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Verse 7. 7Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
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Role in This Section
This verse turns Jerusalem's memory toward former pleasures while enemies watch, mock, and no helper appears.
Read It With
- Lamentations 1:1-7
Read Lamentations 1:7 with 1:1-7. This verse turns Jerusalem's memory toward former pleasures while enemies watch, mock, and no helper appears. 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 It Needs Context
Read this line with Lamentations 1:1-7. The surrounding alphabet stanza supplies the complete lament movement summarized here: 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.
Continue in Context
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Read Lamentations 1:1-7 — The Lonely City Remembers Her LossSources used for this context pointer
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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.
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Exact location: Lamentations 1:1-7, repository-pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM corpus
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Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Lamentations
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Open Scriptures, release 2.2
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