Lamentations 1:8

New International Version

⁸Jerusalem has sinned^(A) greatly
    and so has become unclean.^(B)
All who honored her despise her,
    for they have all seen her naked;^(C)
she herself groans^(D)
    and turns away.

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Lamentations 1:8 in all English translations

2 Kings 24:2-4

New International Version

²The Lord sent Babylonian,^[a]^(A) Aramean,^(B) Moabite and Ammonite raiders^(C) against him to destroy^(D) Judah, in accordance with the word of the Lord proclaimed by his servants the prophets.^(E) ³Surely these things happened to Judah according to the Lord’s command,^(F) in order to remove them from his presence^(G) because of the sins of Manasseh^(H) and all he had done, ⁴including the shedding of innocent blood.^(I) For he had filled Jerusalem with innocent blood, and the Lord was not willing to forgive.^(J)

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Footnotes

2 Kings 24:2 Or Chaldean

Jeremiah 4:31

New International Version

³¹I hear a cry as of a woman in labor,^(A)
    a groan as of one bearing her first child—
the cry of Daughter Zion^(B) gasping for breath,^(C)
    stretching out her hands^(D) and saying,
“Alas! I am fainting;
    my life is given over to murderers.”^(E)