Lamentations 1:19

“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.”

"I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls." - Lamentations 1:19
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What does Lamentations 1:19 mean?

The Bible verse Lamentations 1:19 from the King James Version (KJV) reads, "I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls." This verse is from the book of Lamentations…

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The Echoes of Betrayal: A Soul’s Lament

In the book of Lamentations, we encounter a haunting lamentation that communicates deep sorrow and regret. Lamentations 1:19 states, "I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve…

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A Prayer for Restoration and Renewal in Times of Despair

O Lord, our Heavenly Father, the Great I Am, I come before Your throne of grace with a heavy heart, seeking solace in Your presence. In these moments of withdrawn light and engulfing darkness, I reflect on the profound lamentation expressed in Lamentations 1:19, "I called for my…

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Lamentations 1:19 - "I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls."
Ezekiel 19:1 - "Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,"
"Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel," - Ezekiel 19:1
Lamentations 3:19 - "Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall."
Lamentations 1:9 Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future.
Lamentations 1:9 Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future.
Lamentations 1:9 Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future.
Lamentations 5:19 – "You, Lord, reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation."
Lamentations 5:19 - "Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation."
Ezekiel 19:14 - "And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation."
Lamentations 4:19 - "Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness."
Lamentations 2:1
Lamentations 2:1
Lamentations 2:1
Lamentations 3:1-18
Lamentations 1:9 - "Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself."
Lamentations 3:13
"Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall." - Lamentations 3:19
"Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation." - Lamentations 5:19
Lamentations 3:1 - "I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath."
Lamentations 5:1 - "Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach."
Lamentations 1:1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
Lamentations 1:1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
Lamentations 1:1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
Lamentations 1:1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
Lamentations 1:1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
Lamentations 1:1 How deserted lies the city, once so full of people!
"And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation." - Ezekiel 19:14
Lamentations 2:19 - "Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street."