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Lamentations 1:11

King James Version (KJV)

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Lamentations 1:11

Verse 11 of 22

Scripture focus

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

Lamentations 1:11 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Lamentations 1:11

Theological / Devotional

Bread. Heb. lechem. This word, while used specifically of bread, often has the general sense of “food” (1 Kings 5:11; Ps. 136:25).

Meat. Heb. ’okel, “food,” that is, anything to eat.

Relieve the soul. Literally, “cause the soul to return,” that is, “refresh life.” “Soul,” Heb. nephesh, is used here in its more basic sense of “life” (see on 1 Kings 17:21; Ps. 16:10).

See, O Lord. Here again Jerusalem is depicted as speaking (see on v. 9), and continues as the speaker (except for v. 17) to the end of the chapter.

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