Lamentations 1:9 (YLT)

Passage

Her uncleanness <FI>is<Fi> in her skirts, She hath not remembered her latter end, And she cometh down wonderfully, There is no comforter for her. See, O Jehovah, mine affliction, For exerted himself hath an enemy.

Nearby Context

Lamentations 1:7 Remembered hath Jerusalem <FI>In<Fi> the days of her affliction and her mournings, all her desirable things that were from the days of old, In the falling of her people into the hand of an adversary, And she hath no helper; Seen her have adversaries, They have laughed at her cessation.

Lamentations 1:8 A sin hath Jerusalem sinned, Therefore impure she hath become, All who honoured her have esteemed her lightly, For they have seen her nakedness, Yea, she herself hath sighed and turneth backward.

Lamentations 1:9 Her uncleanness <FI>is<Fi> in her skirts, She hath not remembered her latter end, And she cometh down wonderfully, There is no comforter for her. See, O Jehovah, mine affliction, For exerted himself hath an enemy.

Lamentations 1:10 His hand spread out hath an adversary On all her desirable things, For she hath seen--Nations have entered her sanctuary, Concerning which Thou didst command, `They do not come into the assembly to thee.'

Lamentations 1:11 All her people are sighing--seeking bread, They have given their desirable things For food to refresh the body; See, O Jehovah, and behold attentively, For I have been lightly esteemed.

Study Lenses

The verse centers on "uncleanness", "skirts", "hath", "remembered", "latter", "cometh", "down", and "wonderfully". It is saying that the verse draws attention to "uncleanness" and "skirts", so its meaning should be read from those terms before moving to application.

The nearby context moves from verse 8's "A sin hath Jerusalem sinned Therefore impure..." into verse 10's "His hand spread out hath an adversary...", so "uncleanness" and "skirts" belong inside that flow. In Lamentations context, the local focus is covenant, worship, and faithfulness.

A plain takeaway is to answer the verse's own emphasis on "uncleanness" and "skirts" with trust shaped by these words, not by a vague optimism outside the passage.