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LA 01:01 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 01:02 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 01:03 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 01:04 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 01:05 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 01:06 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 01:07 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 01:08 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 01:09 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 01:10 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 01:11 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 01:12 [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 01:13 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 01:14 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 01:15 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 01:16 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 01:17 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 01:18 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 01:19 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 01:20 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 01:21 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 01:22 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.
LA 02:01 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a
cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth
the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the
day of his anger!
LA 02:02 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of
Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the
strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought [them]
down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes
thereof.
LA 02:03 He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of
Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,
and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which]
devoureth round about.
LA 02:04 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his
right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to
the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out
his fury like fire.
LA 02:05 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel,
he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his
strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah
mourning and lamentation.
LA 02:06 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as
[if it were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the
assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to
be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of
his anger the king and the priest.
LA 02:07 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred
his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the
walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the
LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
LA 02:08 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the
daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not
withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the
rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
LA 02:09 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed
and broken her bars: her king and her princes [are] among the
Gentiles: the law [is] no [more]; her prophets also find no
vision from the LORD.
LA 02:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the
ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their
heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins
of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
LA 02:11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled,
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