Lamentations 1:9 Meaning and Explanation
“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.”
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Read Full Chapter →Heedless of where her ways would lead, Jerusalem has fallen astonishingly low; with no comforter, she cries out for the LORD to see her affliction.
What Does Lamentations 1:9 Mean?
The city had not considered her 'last end,' had not reckoned where her course would finally carry her. We rarely do, in the midst of self-pleasing days. So she 'came down wonderfully' — a fall so steep it stuns the onlooker. And still the refrain returns: she had no comforter.
Then, suddenly, the voice changes. Mid-verse the city herself breaks in: 'O LORD, behold my affliction.' For all the confession of guilt, she does not turn away from God but toward him. This is the deep instinct of faith in ruin: not to argue innocence, but to bring the wound directly to the One whose hand is in it.
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What does Lamentations 1:9 mean?
Heedless of where her ways would lead, Jerusalem has fallen astonishingly low; with no comforter, she cries out for the LORD to see her affliction.