Lamentations 1 · Verse 10

Lamentations 1:10

The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Lamentations 1:10, King James Version

Lamentations 1:10 in other translations

BSBThe adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.
WEBThe adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
ASVThe adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: For she hath seen that the nations are entered into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thine assembly.
YLTHis hand spread out hath an adversary On all her desirable things, For she hath seen--Nations have entered her sanctuary, Concerning which Thou didst command, ‘They do not come into the assembly to thee.'
DARBYThe adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her precious things; for she hath seen the nations enter into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
BBEThe hand of her hater is stretched out over all her desired things; for she has seen that the nations have come into her holy place, about whom you gave orders that they were not to come into the meeting of your people.
WebsterThe adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

What does Lamentations 1:10 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
10. for--surely she hath seen, &c. heathen ... command ... not enter ... congregation--for instance, the Ammonites and Moabites (De 23:3; Ne 13:1, 2). If the heathen, as such, were not allowed to enter the sanctuary for worship, much less were they allowed to enter in order to rob and destroy. Caph.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Lamentations 1:1-11

The miserable state of Jerusalem, the just consequences of its sins. (La 1:1-11) Jerusalem represented as a captive female, lamenting, and seeking the mercy of God. (La 1:12-22) Verses 1-11 The prophet sometimes speaks in his own person; at other times Jerusalem, as a distressed female, is the speaker, or some of the Jews. The description shows the miseries of the Jewish nation. Jerusalem became a captive and a…

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Lamentations 1:10 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

יָדוֹ֙ya.Dohand hisH3027
פָּ֣רַשׂPa.rashe has spread outH6566
צָ֔רTzar[the] opponentH6862
עַ֖ל'aloverH5921
כָּל\־kol-allH3605
מַחֲמַדֶּ֑יהָma.cha.ma.Dei.haprecious things herH4261
כִּֽי\־ki-forH3588
רָאֲתָ֤הra.'a.Tahit sawH7200
גוֹיִם֙go.YimnationsH1471
בָּ֣אוּBa.'u[which] they wentH935
מִקְדָּשָׁ֔הּmik.da.Shahsanctuary itsH4720
אֲשֶׁ֣ר'a.SherwhichH834
צִוִּ֔יתָהtzi.Vi.tahyou had commandedH6680
לֹא\־lo'-notH3808
יָבֹ֥אוּya.Vo.'uthey will comeH935
בַקָּהָ֖לva.ka.Halin the assemblyH6951
לָֽךְ\׃\ \סLakhof you

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Cross references for Lamentations 1:10

  • Deuteronomy 23:3

    An Ammonite or Moabite shall not enter into the congregation of the Lord; even to their tenth generation shall they not enter into the congregation of the Lord for ever:

  • Jeremiah 51:51

    We are confounded, because we have heard reproach: shame hath covered our faces: for strangers are come into the sanctuaries of the Lord’s house.

  • Psalms 74:4-8

    Thine enemies roar in the midst of thy congregations; they set up their ensigns for signs. A man was famous according as he had lifted up axes upon the thick trees. But now they break down the carved work thereof at once with axes and hammers. They have cast fire into thy sanctuary, they have defiled by casting down the dwelling place of thy name to the ground. …

  • Isaiah 64:10-11

    Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation. Our holy and our beautiful house, where our fathers praised thee, is burned up with fire: and all our pleasant things are laid waste.

  • Lamentations 1:7

    Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

  • Nehemiah 13:1

    On that day they read in the book of Moses in the audience of the people; and therein was found written, that the Ammonite and the Moabite should not come into the congregation of God for ever;

  • Isaiah 5:13-14

    Therefore my people are gone into captivity, because they have no knowledge: and their honourable men are famished, and their multitude dried up with thirst. Therefore hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure: and their glory, and their multitude, and their pomp, and he that rejoiceth, shall descend into it.

  • Psalms 79:1-7

    A Psalm of Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; thy holy temple have they defiled; they have laid Jerusalem on heaps. The dead bodies of thy servants have they given to be meat unto the fowls of the heaven, the flesh of thy saints unto the beasts of the earth. Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them. We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us. …

  • Jeremiah 20:5

    Moreover I will deliver all the strength of this city, and all the labours thereof, and all the precious things thereof, and all the treasures of the kings of Judah will I give into the hand of their enemies, which shall spoil them, and take them, and carry them to Babylon.

  • Isaiah 63:18

    The people of thy holiness have possessed it but a little while: our adversaries have trodden down thy sanctuary.

  • Mark 13:14

    But when ye shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, standing where it ought not, (let him that readeth understand,) then let them that be in Judea flee to the mountains:

  • Jeremiah 15:13

    Thy substance and thy treasures will I give to the spoil without price, and that for all thy sins, even in all thy borders.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
spread.
7; Isa 5:13,14; Jer 15:13; 20:5; 52:17-20
pleasant. or, desirable.
7
seen.
Ps 74:4-8; 79:1-7; Isa 63:18; 64:10,11; Jer 51:51; 52:13; Eze 7:22
Eze 9:7
whom.
De 23:3; Ne 13:1; Eze 44:7; Mr 13:14

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Context

  • 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 1:10

    The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

  • Lamentations 1:11

    All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.

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Lamentations 1:10 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Extendió su mano el enemigo á todas sus cosas preciosas; y ella ha visto entrar en su santuario las gentes, de las cuales mandaste que no entrasen en tu congregación.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
L’ennemi a étendu sa main sur toutes ses choses désirables; car elle a vu entrer dans son sanctuaire les nations, au sujet desquelles tu avais commandé qu’elles n’entreraient point dans ta congrégation.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Der Bedränger hat seine Hand ausgebreitet über alle ihre Kostbarkeiten; denn sie hat gesehen, daß Nationen in ihr Heiligtum gekommen sind, von welchen du geboten hast: Sie sollen nicht in deine Versammlung kommen!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Manum suam misit hostis ad omnia desiderabilia ejus, quia vidit gentes ingressas sanctuarium suum, de quibus præceperas ne intrarent in ecclesiam tuam.