Lamentations 1:21 Meaning and Explanation
“They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →Her enemies rejoice over her ruin, but she trusts that the day of reckoning God has appointed will come upon them too.
What Does Lamentations 1:21 Mean?
Her enemies have heard her sighing and are glad — glad that God himself has done this to her. There is a special sting in suffering that becomes another's satisfaction. And the refrain returns yet again: there is none to comfort me. It is the chapter's unhealed wound, named for nearly the last time.
But here the lament leans forward into hope of justice. 'Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called.' The same God who appointed Jerusalem's day of judgment has appointed a day for her tormentors. 'They shall be like unto me.' This is not mere spite; it is trust that God's justice is even-handed, that those who gloated will not escape the scales forever. Vengeance is left in his hands, not seized by her own.
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What does Lamentations 1:21 mean?
Her enemies rejoice over her ruin, but she trusts that the day of reckoning God has appointed will come upon them too.