People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that You have caused it. May You bring the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this
Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions.
“Because you rejoice, because you sing in triumph—you who plunder My inheritance—because you frolic like a heifer treadi
But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me w
Before your very eyes I will repay Babylon and all the dwellers of Chaldea for all the evil they have done in Zion,” dec
The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, he
She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her f
So rejoice and be glad, O Daughter of Edom, you who dwell in the land of Uz. Yet the cup will pass to you as well; you w
Because I have sinned against Him, I must endure the rage of the LORD, until He argues my case and executes justice for
Remember, O LORD, the sons of Edom on the day Jerusalem fell: “Destroy it,” they said, “tear it down to its foundations!
This is the burden against Babylon that Isaiah son of Amoz received:
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look,
but the Lord laughs, seeing that their day is coming.
Was not Israel your object of ridicule? Was he ever found among thieves? For whenever you speak of him you shake your he
“Son of man, because Tyre has said of Jerusalem, ‘Aha! The gate to the nations is broken; it has swung open to me; now t
Give back to her as she has done to others; pay her back double for what she has done; mix her a double portion in her o
Nevertheless, all who devour you will be devoured, and all your adversaries—every one of them—will go off into exile. Th
Thus says your Lord, the LORD, even your God, who defends His people: “See, I have removed from your hand the cup of sta
So I took the cup from the LORD’s hand and made all the nations drink from it, each one to whom the LORD had sent me,
These are the words of Amos, who was among the sheepherders of Tekoa—what he saw concerning Israel two years before the
Then the word of the LORD came to me, saying,
when I sharpen My flashing sword, and My hand grasps it in judgment, I will take vengeance on My adversaries and repay t
Woe to him who gives drink to his neighbors, pouring it from the wineskin until they are drunk, in order to gaze at thei
For I said, “Let them not gloat over me—those who taunt me when my foot slips.”
Raise a war cry against her on every side! She has thrown up her hands in surrender; her towers have fallen; her walls a
“Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts, “for your day has come, the time when I will
Multitudes, multitudes in the valley of decision! For the Day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision.
“Babylon must fall on account of the slain of Israel, just as the slain of all the earth have fallen because of Babylon.
But you should not gloat in that day, your brother’s day of misfortune, nor rejoice over the people of Judah in the day
This is the word of the LORD about the nations—the word that came to Jeremiah the prophet
“Go down and sit in the dust, O Virgin Daughter of Babylon. Sit on the ground without a throne, O Daughter of the Chalde
Summon the archers against Babylon, all who string the bow. Encamp all around her; let no one escape. Repay her accordin