Find the perfect quote to float your boat. Shmoop breaks down key quotations from Lamentations.
Exile Quotes
How lonely sits the city that once was full of people! (NRSV 1:1)How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! (KJV 1:1)
Justice and Judgment Quotes
Her foes have become the masters, her enemies prosper, because the Lord has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions. (NRSV 1:5)Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; fo...
Sin Quotes
The Lord has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions. (NRSV 1:5)The Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. (KJV 1:5)
Suffering Quotes
Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow. (NRSV 1:12)Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto...
Women and Femininity Quotes
How like a widow she has become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces has become a vassal. She weeps bitterly in the night, with tears on her cheeks; am...