LA-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!
LA-1:2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears [are] on
her cheeks:
among all her lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her
friends have
dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
LA-1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and
because of
great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no
rest: all her
persecutors overtook her between the straits.
LA-1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the
solemn feasts: all
her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are
afflicted, and she
[is] in bitterness.
LA-1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for
the LORD hath
afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her
children are gone
into captivity before the enemy.
LA-1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed:
her princes
are become like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone
without
strength before the pursuer.
LA-1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and
of her miseries
all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when
her people fell
into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the
adversaries saw her,
[and] did mock at her sabbaths.
LA-1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is
removed: all that
honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:
yea, she
sigheth, and turneth backward.
LA-1:9 Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not
her last end;
therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O
LORD, behold my
affliction: for the enemy hath magnified [himself].
LA-1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her
pleasant things:
for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary,
whom thou
didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.
LA-1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given
their pleasant
things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider;
for I am
become vile.
LA-1:12 [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold,
and see if there
be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me,
wherewith the LORD
hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.
LA-1:13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it
prevaileth against
them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back:
he hath made
me desolate [and] faint all the day.
LA-1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand:
they are
wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength
to fall, the
Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not
able to rise
up.
LA-1:15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in
the midst of
me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men:
the Lord hath
trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a winepress.
LA-1:16 For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth
down with
water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far
from me: my
children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
LA-1:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to
comfort her:
the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries
[should be]
round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
LA-1:18 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.
LA-1:19 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.
LA-1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are
troubled; mine
heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:
abroad the sword
bereaveth, at home [there is] as death.
LA-1:21 They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort
me: all mine
enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast
done [it]: thou
wilt bring the day [that] thou hast called, and they shall be
like unto me.
LA-1:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto
them, as thou
hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are]
many, and my
heart [is] faint.
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