Lamentations 1:11 Cross References

Lamentations 1:11

11: Her people groan as they search for bread. They have sold their treasures for food to stay alive. "O LORD, look," she mourns, "and see how I am despised.

Jeremiah 52:6

  1. By July 18 of Zedekiah's eleventh year, the famine in the city had become very severe, with the last of the food entirely gone.

Jeremiah 38:9

  1. "My lord the king," he said, "these men have done a very evil thing in putting Jeremiah the prophet into the cistern. He will soon die of hunger, for almost all the bread in the city is gone."

Lamentations 2:12

  1. "Mama, we want food," they cry, and then collapse in their mothers' arms. Their lives ebb away like the life of a warrior wounded in battle.

Job 40:4

  1. "I am nothing--how could I ever find the answers? I will put my hand over my mouth in silence.

Lamentations 1:9

  1. She defiled herself with immorality with no thought of the punishment that would follow. Now she lies in the gutter with no one to lift her out. "LORD, see my deep misery," she cries. "The enemy has triumphed."

2 Kings 6:25

  1. As a result there was a great famine in the city. After a while even a donkey's head sold for two pounds of silver, and a cup of dove's dung cost about two ounces of silver.

Deuteronomy 28:52

  1. They will lay siege to your cities until all the fortified walls in your land--the walls you trusted to protect you--are knocked down. They will attack all the towns in the land the LORD your God has given you.
  2. The siege will be so severe that you will eat the flesh of your own sons and daughters, whom the LORD your God has given you.
  3. The most tenderhearted man among you will have no compassion for his own brother, his beloved wife, and his surviving children.
  4. He will refuse to give them a share of the flesh he is devouring--the flesh of one of his own children--because he has nothing else to eat during the siege that your enemy will inflict on all your towns.
  5. The most tender and delicate woman among you--so delicate she would not so much as touch her feet to the ground--will be cruel to the husband she loves and to her own son or daughter.

Ezekiel 4:15

  1. "All right," the LORD said. "You may bake your bread with cow dung instead of human dung."
  2. Then he told me, "Son of man, I will cause food to be very scarce in Jerusalem. It will be weighed out with great care and eaten fearfully. The water will be portioned out drop by drop, and the people will drink it with dismay.
  3. Food and water will be so scarce that the people will look at one another in terror, and they will waste away under their punishment.

Lamentations 2:20

  1. "O LORD, think about this!" Jerusalem cries. "You are doing this to your own people! Should mothers eat their little children, those they once bounced on their knees? Should priests and prophets die within the Lord's Temple?

Psalms 25:15

  1. My eyes are always looking to the LORD for help, for he alone can rescue me from the traps of my enemies.
  2. Turn to me and have mercy on me, for I am alone and in deep distress.
  3. My problems go from bad to worse. Oh, save me from them all!
  4. Feel my pain and see my trouble. Forgive all my sins.
  5. See how many enemies I have, and how viciously they hate me!

Ezekiel 5:16

  1. "I will shower you with the deadly arrows of famine to destroy you. The famine will become more and more severe until every crumb of food is gone.
  2. And along with the famine, wild animals will attack you, robbing you of your children. Disease and war will stalk your land, and I will bring the sword of the enemy against you. I, the LORD, have spoken!"

Lamentations 1:19

  1. "I begged my allies for help, but they betrayed me. My priests and leaders starved to death in the city, even as they searched for food to save their lives.
  2. "LORD, see my anguish! My heart is broken and my soul despairs, for I have rebelled against you. In the streets the sword kills, and at home there is only death.

1 Samuel 30:11

  1. Some of David's troops found an Egyptian man in a field and brought him to David. They gave him some bread to eat and some water to drink.
  2. They also gave him part of a fig cake and two clusters of raisins because he hadn't had anything to eat or drink for three days and nights. It wasn't long before his strength returned.

Jeremiah 19:9

  1. I will see to it that your enemies lay siege to the city until all the food is gone. Then those trapped inside will have to eat their own sons and daughters and friends. They will be driven to utter despair.'

Lamentations 4:4

  1. The parched tongues of their little ones stick with thirst to the roofs of their mouths. The children cry for bread, but no one has any to give them.
  2. The people who once ate only the richest foods now beg in the streets for anything they can get. Those who once lived in palaces now search the garbage pits for food.
  3. The guilt of my people is greater than that of Sodom, where utter disaster struck in a moment with no one to help them.
  4. Our princes were once glowing with health; they were as clean as snow and as elegant as jewels.
  5. But now their faces are blacker than soot. No one even recognizes them. Their skin sticks to their bones; it is as dry and hard as wood.
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