Lamentations Chapter 1 verse 19 Holy Bible
I called for my lovers, `but' they deceived me: My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
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I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.
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I called for my lovers, they have deceived me; my priests and mine elders have expired in the city, while they sought them food to revive their soul.
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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.
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I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, While they sought them food to refresh their souls.
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I called for my lovers, they -- they have deceived me, My priests and my elders in the city have expired; When they have sought food for themselves, Then they give back their soul.
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 19. - For my lovers; render, to my lovers (see on ver. 2).
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(19) I called for.--Better, to. The "lovers," as in Lamentations 1:2, are the former allies of Judah.My priests and mine elders.--The pressure of the famine of the besieged city is emphasised by the fact that even these, the honoured guides of the people, had died of hunger. On the phrase that follows, see Lamentations 1:11. A conjectural addition, at the end of the verse, "and found not," is supplied in the LXX and Syriac versions; but rhetorically there is more force in the aposiopesis, the suggestive silence, of the Hebrew.