Contradictions Catalog of Lamentations 1:1
Lamentations 1:1 contradicts following 13 verses in the Bible. Check out Contradictions and Paradoxes of Lamentations 1:1 for quick understanding.
Lamentations 1:1: How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary!
| # | Contradicting Verse | Translation |
|---|---|---|
| 1. | Numbers 24:5 | How goodly are thy tents, O Jacob, [and] thy tabernacles, O Israel! |
| 2. | 1 Kings 4:20 | Judah and Israel [were] many, as the sand which [is] by the sea in multitude, eating and drinking, and making merry. |
| 3. | 2 Chronicles 1:15 | And the king made silver and gold at Jerusalem [as plenteous] as stones, and cedar trees made he as the sycomore trees that [are] in the vale for abundance. [made: Heb. gave] |
| 4. | Nehemiah 7:72 | And [that] which the rest of the people gave [was] twenty thousand drams of gold, and two thousand pound of silver, and threescore and seven priests' garments. |
| 5. | Isaiah 9:3 | Thou hast multiplied the nation, [and] not increased the joy: they joy before thee according to the joy in harvest, [and] as [men] rejoice when they divide the spoil. [not: or, to him] |
| 6. | Isaiah 54:1 | Sing, O barren, thou [that] didst not bear; break forth into singing, and cry aloud, thou [that] didst not travail with child: for more [are] the children of the desolate than the children of the married wife, saith the LORD. |
| 7. | Jeremiah 27:20 | Which Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon took not, when he carried away captive Jeconiah the son of Jehoiakim king of Judah from Jerusalem to Babylon, and all the nobles of Judah and Jerusalem; |
| 8. | Ezekiel 36:10 | And I will multiply men upon you, all the house of Israel, [even] all of it: and the cities shall be inhabited, and the wastes shall be builded: |
| 9. | Ezekiel 36:38 | As the holy flock, as the flock of Jerusalem in her solemn feasts; so shall the waste cities be filled with flocks of men: and they shall know that I [am] the LORD. [holy...: Heb. flock of holy things] |
| 10. | Zechariah 14:10 | All the land shall be turned as a plain from Geba to Rimmon south of Jerusalem: and it shall be lifted up, and inhabited in her place, from Benjamin's gate unto the place of the first gate, unto the corner gate, and [from] the tower of Hananeel unto the king's winepresses. [turned: or, compassed] [inhabited: or, shall abide] |
| 11. | Matthew 5:14 | Ye are the light of the world. A city that is set on an hill cannot be hid. |
| 12. | Acts 8:8 | And there was great joy in that city. |
| 13. | Revelation 21:2 | And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. |
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