Quotes from Lamentations
11 notable lines from Jeremiah · c. 586 BCE
It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.
Quotations follow the King James Version translation (Oxford University Press, 1611) — our recommended edition.
How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Opening verse, Lamentations 1:1 (KJV) Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations 1:12 (KJV) The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.
Lamentations 3:24 (KJV) It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.
Lamentations 3:26 (KJV) For the Lord will not cast off for ever: but though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
Lamentations 3:31-33 (KJV) It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
Lamentations 3:27 (KJV) Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
Closing prayer, Lamentations 5:21 (KJV) How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed!
Lamentations 4:1 (KJV) Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.
Lamentations 3:19 (KJV) Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord.
Lamentations 2:19 (KJV)