Lamentations 1:18 Cross References
Lamentations 1:18
18: "And the LORD is right," she groans, "for I rebelled against him. Listen, people everywhere; look upon my anguish and despair, for my sons and daughters have been taken captive to distant lands.
Lamentations 1:12
- "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see if there is any suffering like mine, which the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger.
Jeremiah 12:1
- LORD, you always give me justice when I bring a case before you. Now let me bring you this complaint: Why are the wicked so prosperous? Why are evil people so happy?
Zephaniah 3:5
- But the LORD is still there in the city, and he does no wrong. Day by day his justice is more evident, but no one takes notice--the wicked know no shame.
1 Samuel 12:14
- "Now if you will fear and worship the LORD and listen to his voice, and if you do not rebel against the LORD's commands, and if you and your king follow the LORD your God, then all will be well.
- But if you rebel against the LORD's commands and refuse to listen to him, then his hand will be as heavy upon you as it was upon your ancestors.
Psalms 119:75
- I know, O LORD, that your decisions are fair; you disciplined me because I needed it.
Lamentations 3:42
- "We have sinned and rebelled, and you have not forgiven us.
Psalms 107:11
- They rebelled against the words of God, scorning the counsel of the Most High.
Nehemiah 9:33
- Every time you punished us you were being just. We have sinned greatly, and you gave us only what we deserved.
Deuteronomy 32:4
- He is the Rock; his work is perfect. Everything he does is just and fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong; how just and upright he is!
Revelation 15:3
- And they were singing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb: "Great and marvelous are your actions, Lord God Almighty. Just and true are your ways, O King of the nations.
- Who will not fear, O Lord, and glorify your name? For you alone are holy. All nations will come and worship before you, for your righteous deeds have been revealed."
Nehemiah 9:26
- "But despite all this, they were disobedient and rebelled against you. They threw away your law, they killed the prophets who encouraged them to return to you, and they committed terrible blasphemies.
1 Samuel 15:23
- Rebellion is as bad as the sin of witchcraft, and stubbornness is as bad as worshiping idols. So because you have rejected the word of the LORD, he has rejected you from being king."
Romans 3:19
- Obviously, the law applies to those to whom it was given, for its purpose is to keep people from having excuses and to bring the entire world into judgment before God.
Psalms 145:17
- The LORD is righteous in everything he does; he is filled with kindness.
Exodus 9:27
- Then Pharaoh urgently sent for Moses and Aaron. "I finally admit my fault," he confessed. "The LORD is right, and my people and I are wrong.
Romans 2:5
- But no, you won't listen. So you are storing up terrible punishment for yourself because of your stubbornness in refusing to turn from your sin. For there is going to come a day of judgment when God, the just judge of all the world,
Lamentations 1:5
- Her oppressors have become her masters, and her enemies prosper, for the LORD has punished Jerusalem for her many sins. Her children have been captured and taken away to distant lands.
- All the beauty and majesty of Jerusalem are gone. Her princes are like starving deer searching for pasture, too weak to run from the pursuing enemy.
Jeremiah 22:8
- People from many nations will pass by the ruins of this city and say to one another, `Why did the LORD destroy such a great city?'
- And the answer will be, `Because they violated their covenant with the LORD their God by worshiping other gods.'"
Revelation 16:5
- And I heard the angel who had authority over all water saying, "You are just in sending this judgment, O Holy One, who is and who always was.
- For your holy people and your prophets have been killed, and their blood was poured out on the earth. So you have given their murderers blood to drink. It is their just reward."
- And I heard a voice from the altar saying, "Yes, Lord God Almighty, your punishments are true and just."
Jeremiah 25:28
- And if they refuse to accept the cup, tell them, `The LORD Almighty says: You must drink from it. You cannot escape!
- I have begun to punish Jerusalem, the city where my own name is honored. Now should I let you go unpunished? No, you will not escape disaster. I will call for war against all the nations of the earth. I, the LORD Almighty, have spoken!'
Judges 1:7
- Adoni-bezek said, "I once had seventy kings with thumbs and big toes cut off, eating scraps from under my table. Now God has paid me back for what I did to them." They took him to Jerusalem, and he died there.
Deuteronomy 28:32
- You will watch as your sons and daughters are taken away as slaves. Your heart will break as you long for them, but nothing you do will help.
- A foreign nation you have never heard about will eat the crops you worked so hard to grow. You will suffer under constant oppression and harsh treatment.
- You will go mad because of all the tragedy around you.
- The LORD will cover you from head to foot with incurable boils.
- "The LORD will exile you and the king you crowned to a nation unknown to you and your ancestors. Then in exile you will worship gods of wood and stone!
Ezra 9:13
- "Now we are being punished because of our wickedness and our great guilt. But we have actually been punished far less than we deserve, for you, our God, have allowed some of us to survive as a remnant.
Deuteronomy 29:22
- "Then the generations to come, both your own descendants and the foreigners who come from distant lands, will see the devastation of the land and the diseases the LORD will send against it.
- They will find its soil turned into sulfur and salt, with nothing planted and nothing growing, not even a blade of grass. It will be just like Sodom and Gomorrah, Admah and Zeboiim, which the LORD destroyed in his anger.
- The surrounding nations will ask, `Why has the LORD done this to his land? Why was he so angry?'
- "And they will be told, `This happened because the people of the land broke the covenant they made with the LORD, the God of their ancestors, when he brought them out of the land of Egypt.
- They turned to serve and worship other gods that were foreign to them, gods that the LORD had not designated for them.
1 Kings 13:21
- He cried out to the man of God from Judah, "This is what the LORD says: You have defied the LORD's message and have disobeyed the command the LORD your God gave you.
Ezekiel 14:22
- Yet there will be survivors, and they will come here to join you as exiles in Babylon. You will see with your own eyes how wicked they are, and then you will feel better about what I have done to Jerusalem.
- When you meet them and see their behavior, you will agree that these things are not being done to Israel without cause, says the Sovereign LORD."
Nehemiah 1:6
- listen to my prayer! Look down and see me praying night and day for your people Israel. I confess that we have sinned against you. Yes, even my own family and I have sinned!
- We have sinned terribly by not obeying the commands, laws, and regulations that you gave us through your servant Moses.
- "Please remember what you told your servant Moses: 'If you sin, I will scatter you among the nations.
Daniel 9:9
- But the Lord our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have rebelled against him.
- We have not obeyed the LORD our God, for we have not followed the laws he gave us through his servants the prophets.
- All Israel has disobeyed your law and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice. "So now the solemn curses and judgments written in the law of Moses, the servant of God, have been poured out against us because of our sin.
- You have done exactly what you warned you would do against us and our rulers. Never in all history has there been a disaster like the one that happened in Jerusalem.
- Every curse written against us in the law of Moses has come true. All the troubles he predicted have taken place. But we have refused to seek mercy from the LORD our God by turning from our sins and recognizing his truth.
Jeremiah 49:12
- And this is what the LORD says: "If the innocent must suffer, how much more must you! You will not go unpunished! You must drink this cup of judgment!
1 Kings 9:8
- And though this Temple is impressive now, it will become an appalling sight for all who pass by. They will scoff and ask, `Why did the LORD do such terrible things to his land and to his Temple?'
- And the answer will be, `Because his people forgot the LORD their God, who brought their ancestors out of Egypt, and they worshiped other gods instead. That is why the LORD has brought all these disasters upon them.'"
Daniel 9:7
- "Lord, you are in the right; but our faces are covered with shame, just as you see us now. This is true of us all, including the people of Judah and Jerusalem and all Israel, scattered near and far, wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you.