Lamentations 1:18
King James Version
9 Jun 2026
“The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.”
צַדִּיק
The blessed man is not the one who has never fallen — it is the one who knows where not to stand, not to walk, not to sit. Righteousness in the Psalms is relational — it is being in right standing with God, walking in step with Him, rooted in His word like a tree by water.
שָׁמַע
listen
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שָׁמַע
To hear, to listen, to obey. Shema. Hear O Israel. In Hebrew to truly hear means to obey. God is looking for those who hear with the intention to do.
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נָא
please
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נָא
'I pray', 'now', or 'then'; added mostly to verbs (in the Imperative or Future), or to interjections, occasionally to an adverb or conjunction
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מַכְאֹב
pain/ my
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מַכְאֹב
Pain, sorrow, grief. Makkob. A man of sorrows acquainted with grief. Jesus knows pain from the inside. He walked every road we walk.
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פֶּה
mouth/ his
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פֶּה
Mouth. Peh. The mouth of the LORD has spoken. God's mouth never speaks empty words. Every word He speaks will be fulfilled.
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יְהֹוָה
Yahweh
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יְהֹוָה
LORD. Yahweh. The covenant name of God. I AM WHO I AM. The self-existent eternal One who was is and always will be.
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מָרָה
I have been rebellious
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מָרָה
to be (causatively, make) bitter (or unpleasant); (figuratively) to rebel (or resist; causatively, to provoke)
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בְּתוּלָה
young women/ my
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בְּתוּלָה
a virgin (from her privacy); sometimes (by continuation) a bride; also (figuratively) a city or state
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כֹּל
O all
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כֹּל
properly, the whole; hence, all, any or every (in the singular only, but often in a plural sense)
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הָלַךְ
they have gone
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הָלַךְ
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
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