Lamentations 1:22

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

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Referenced Verses

  • Jer 8:18 : 18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.
  • Neh 4:4-5 : 4 Give ear, O our God, for we are looked down on: let their words of shame be turned back on themselves, and let them be given up to wasting in a land where they are prisoners: 5 Let not their wrongdoing be covered or their sin washed away from before you: for they have made you angry before the builders.
  • Ps 109:14-15 : 14 Let the Lord keep in mind the wrongdoing of his fathers; and may the sin of his mother have no forgiveness. 15 Let them be ever before the eyes of the Lord, so that the memory of them may be cut off from the earth.
  • Ps 137:7-9 : 7 O Lord, keep in mind against the children of Edom the day of Jerusalem; how they said, Let it be uncovered, uncovered even to its base. 8 O daughter of Babylon, whose fate is destruction; happy is the man who does to you what you have done to us. 9 Happy is the man who takes your little ones, crushing them against the rocks.
  • Isa 13:7 : 7 For this cause all hands will be feeble, and every heart of man be turned to water;
  • Jer 10:25 : 25 Let your wrath be let loose on the nations which have no knowledge of you, and on the families who give no worship to your name: for they have made a meal of Jacob, truly they have made a meal of him and put an end to him and made his fields a waste.
  • Jer 18:23 : 23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.
  • Jer 51:35 : 35 May the violent things done to me, and my downfall, come on Babylon, the daughter of Zion will say; and, May my blood be on the people of Chaldaea, Jerusalem will say.
  • Lam 1:13 : 13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.
  • Lam 5:17 : 17 Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark;
  • Luke 23:31 : 31 For if they do these things when the tree is green, what will they do when it is dry?
  • Eph 3:13 : 13 For this reason it is my prayer that you may not become feeble because of my troubles for you, which are your glory.
  • Rev 6:10 : 10 And they gave a great cry, saying, How long will it be, O Ruler, holy and true, before you take your place as judge and give punishment for our blood to those on the earth?

Similar Verses (AI)

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    20 See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.

    21 Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

  • Jer 18:22-23
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    22 Let a cry for help go up from their houses, when you send an armed band on them suddenly: for they have made a hole in which to take me, and have put nets for my feet secretly.

    23 But you, Lord, have knowledge of all the designs which they have made against my life; let not their evil-doing be covered or their sin be washed away from before your eyes: but let it be a cause of falling before you: so do to them in the time of your wrath.

  • Ps 25:16-19
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    16 Be turned to me, and have mercy on me; for I am troubled and have no helper.

    17 The troubles of my heart are increased: O take me out of my sorrows.

    18 Give thought to my grief and my pain; and take away all my sins.

    19 See how those who are against me are increased, for bitter is their hate of me.

  • Ps 38:8-9
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    8 I am feeble and crushed down; I gave a cry like a lion because of the grief in my heart.

    9 Lord, all my desire is before you; my sorrow is not kept secret from you.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    77%

    9 Have mercy on me, O Lord, for I am in trouble; my eyes are wasted with grief, I am wasted in soul and body.

    10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Lam 1:11-14
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    11 Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

    12 Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

    13 From on high he has sent fire into my bones, and it has overcome them: his net is stretched out for my feet, I am turned back by him; he has made me waste and feeble all the day.

    14 A watch is kept on my sins; they are joined together by his hand, they have come on to my neck; he has made my strength give way: the Lord has given me up into the hands of those against whom I have no power.

  • Ps 40:12
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    12 For unnumbered evils are round about me; my sins have overtaken me, so that I am bent down with their weight; they are more than the hairs of my head, my strength is gone because of them.

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    24 In place of my food I have grief, and cries of sorrow come from me like water.

  • Ps 55:3-4
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    3 I am troubled because of the voice of the cruel ones, because of the loud cry of the evil-doers; for they put a weight of evil on me, and they are cruel in their hate for me.

    4 My heart is deeply wounded, and the fear of death has come on me.

  • Ps 35:24
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    24 Be my judge, O Lord my God, in your righteousness; do not let them be glad over me.

  • Ps 79:11
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    11 Let the cry of the prisoner come before you; with your strong arm make free the children of death;

  • Jer 8:18
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    18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

  • Ps 38:17-18
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    17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

    18 I will make clear my wrongdoing, with sorrow in my heart for my sin.

  • Jer 20:12
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    12 But, O Lord of armies, testing the upright and seeing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them; for I have put my cause before you.

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    22 For I am poor and in need, and my heart is wounded in me.

  • Ps 9:13
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    13 Have mercy on me, O Lord, and see how I am troubled by my haters; let me be lifted up from the doors of death;

  • Ps 6:7-8
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    7 My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

    8 Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

  • Ps 65:3
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    3 Evils have overcome us: but as for our sins, you will take them away.

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    22 And as for me, I said in my fear, I am cut off from before your eyes; but you gave ear to the voice of my prayer, when my cry went up to you.

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    3 The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4 Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

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    60 You have seen all the evil rewards they have sent on me, and all their designs against me.

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    4 For my crimes have gone over my head; they are like a great weight which is more than my strength.

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    20 But, O Lord of armies, judging in righteousness, testing the thoughts and the heart, let me see your punishment come on them: for I have put my cause before you.

  • Ps 109:20
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    20 Let this be the reward given to my haters from the Lord, and to those who say evil of my soul.

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    2 Let my prayer come before you; give ear to my cry:

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    15 What am I to say? seeing that it is he who has done it: all my time of sleeping I am turning from side to side without rest.

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    12 Let my prayer come to your ears, O Lord, and give attention to my cry, make an answer to my weeping: for my time here is short before you, and in a little time I will be gone, like all my fathers.

  • Jer 15:15
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    2 I put all my sorrows before him; and made clear to him all my trouble.

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    16 For these things I am weeping; my eye is streaming with water; because the comforter who might give me new life is far from me: my children are made waste, because the hater is strong.

  • Ps 69:20
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    20 My heart is broken by bitter words, I am full of grief; I made a search for some to have pity on me, but there was no one; I had no comforter.

  • Job 17:7
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    7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

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    2 How long is my soul to be in doubt, with sorrow in my heart all the day? how long will he who is against me be given power over me?

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    8 My haters say evil of me all day; those who are violent against me make use of my name as a curse.