11  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 .

 12  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 .

 13  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 .

 14  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 .

 15  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 .

 16  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 .

 17  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 .

 18  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 .

 19  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 .

 110  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 .

 111  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 .

 112  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 .

 113  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 .

 114  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 .

 115  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 .

 116  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 
.

 117  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 .

 118  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 .

 119  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 .

 120  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 .

 121  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 .

 122  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 .

* 21  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 .

 22  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 .

 23  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 .

 24  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 .

 25  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 .

 26  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 .

 27  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 .

 28  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 .

 29  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 .

 210  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 .

 211  Mine eyes do fail with tears my bowels are troubled my 
liver is poured upon the earth for the destruction of the 
daughter of my people because the children and the sucklings 
swoon in the streets of the city .

 212  They say to their mothers Where is corn and wine when they 
swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city when their 
soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom .

 213  What thing shall I take to witness for thee what thing 
shall I liken to thee O daughter of Jerusalem what shall I equal 
to thee that I may comfort thee O virgin daughter of Zion for 
thy breach is great like the sea who can heal thee .

 214  Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee 
and they have not discovered thine iniquity to turn away thy 
captivity but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of 
banishment .

 215  All that pass by clap their hands at thee they hiss and 
wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying Is this the 
city that men call The perfection of beauty The joy of the whole 
earth .

 216  All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee 
they hiss and gnash the teeth they say We have swallowed her up 
certainly this is the day that we looked for we have found we 
have seen it .

 217  The LORD hath done that which he had devised he hath 
fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old he 
hath thrown down and hath not pitied and he hath caused thine 
enemy to rejoice over thee he hath set up the horn of thine 
adversaries .

 218  Their heart cried unto the Lord O wall of the daughter of 
Zion let tears run down like a river day and night give thyself 
no rest let not the apple of thine eye cease .

 219  Arise cry out in the night in the beginning of the watches 
pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord lift 
up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that 
faint for hunger in the top of every street .

 220  Behold O LORD and consider to whom thou hast done this 
Shall the women eat their fruit and children of a span long 
shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of 
the Lord .

 221  The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets my 
virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword thou hast slain 
them in the day of thine anger thou hast killed and not pitied .

 222  Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about 
so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained 
those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy 
consumed .

* 31  I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his 
wrath .

 32  He hath led me and brought me into darkness but not into 
light .

 33  Surely against me is he turned he turneth his hand against 
me all the day .

 34  My flesh and my skin hath he made old he hath broken my 
bones .

 35  He hath builded against me and compassed me with gall and 
travail .

 36  He hath set me in dark places as they that be dead of old .

 37  He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out he hath made 
my chain heavy .

 38  Also when I cry and shout he shutteth out my prayer .

 39  He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone he hath made my 
paths crooked .

 310  He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in 
secret places .

 311  He hath turned aside my ways and pulled me in pieces he 
hath made me desolate .

 312  He hath bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow .

 313  He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my 
reins .

 314  I was a derision to all my people and their song all the 
day .

 315  He hath filled me with bitterness he hath made me drunken 
with wormwood .

 316  He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones he hath 
covered me with ashes .

 317  And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace I forgat 
prosperity .

 318  And I said My strength and my hope is perished from the 
LORD .

 319  Remembering mine affliction and my misery the wormwood and 
the gall .

 320  My soul hath them still in remembrance and is humbled in 
me .

 321  This I recall to my mind therefore have I hope .

 322  It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed 
because his compassions fail not .

 323  They are new every morning great is thy faithfulness .

 324  The LORD is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope 
in him .

 325  The LORD is good unto them that wait for him to the soul 
that seeketh him .

 326  It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait 
for the salvation of the LORD .

 327  It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth .

 328  He sitteth alone and keepeth silence because he hath borne 
it upon him .

 329  He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be 
hope .

 330  He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him he is filled 
full with reproach .

 331  For the Lord will not cast off for ever .

 332  But though he cause grief yet will he have compassion 
according to the multitude of his mercies .

 333  For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children 
of men .

 334  To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth .

 335  To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the 
most High .

 336  To subvert a man in his cause the Lord approveth not .

 337  Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the Lord 
commandeth it not .

 338  Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and 
good .

 339  Wherefore doth a living man complain a man for the 
punishment of his sins .

 340  Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the LORD .

 341  Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the 
heavens .

 342  We have transgressed and have rebelled thou hast not 
pardoned .

 343  Thou hast covered with anger and persecuted us thou hast 
slain thou hast not pitied .

 344  Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer 
should not pass through .

 345  Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the 
midst of the people .

 346  All our enemies have opened their mouths against us .

 347  Fear and a snare is come upon us desolation and 
destruction .

 348  Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the 
destruction of the daughter of my people .

 349  Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not without any 
intermission .

 350  Till the LORD look down and behold from heaven .

 351  Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters 
of my city .

 352  Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird without cause .

 353  They have cut off my life in the dungeon and cast a stone 
upon me .

 354  Waters flowed over mine head then I said I am cut off .

 355  I called upon thy name O LORD out of the low dungeon .

 356  Thou hast heard my voice hide not thine ear at my 
breathing at my cry .

 357  Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee thou 
saidst Fear not .

 358  O Lord thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul thou hast 
redeemed my life .

 359  O LORD thou hast seen my wrong judge thou my cause .

 360  Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their 
imaginations against me .

 361  Thou hast heard their reproach O LORD and all their 
imaginations against me .

 362  The lips of those that rose up against me and their device 
against me all the day .

 363  Behold their sitting down and their rising up I am their 
music .

 364  Render unto them a recompense O LORD according to the work 
of their hands .

 365  Give them sorrow of heart thy curse unto them .

 366  Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens 
of the LORD .

* 41  How is the gold become dim how is the most fine gold 
changed the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of 
every street .

 42  The precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold how are 
they esteemed as earthen pitchers the work of the hands of the 
potter .

 43  Even the sea monsters draw out the breast they give suck to 
their young ones the daughter of my people is become cruel like 
the ostriches in the wilderness .

 44  The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his 
mouth for thirst the young children ask bread and no man 
breaketh it unto them .

 45  They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets 
they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills .

 46  For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my 
people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom that 
was overthrown as in a moment and no hands stayed on her .

 47  Her Nazarites were purer than snow they were whiter than 
milk they were more ruddy in body than rubies their polishing 
was of sapphire .

 48  Their visage is blacker than a coal they are not known in 
the streets their skin cleaveth to their bones it is withered it 
is become like a stick .

 49  They that be slain with the sword are better than they that 
be slain with hunger for these pine away stricken through for 
want of the fruits of the field .

 410  The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own 
children they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter 
of my people .

 411  The LORD hath accomplished his fury he hath poured out his 
fierce anger and hath kindled a fire in Zion and it hath 
devoured the foundations thereof .

 412  The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the 
world would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy 
should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem .

 413  For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her 
priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her 
.

 414  They have wandered as blind men in the streets they have 
polluted themselves with blood so that men could not touch their 
garments .

 415  They cried unto them Depart ye it is unclean depart depart 
touch not when they fled away and wandered they said among the 
heathen They shall no more sojourn there .

 416  The anger of the LORD hath divided them he will no more 
regard them they respected not the persons of the priests they 
favoured not the elders .

 417  As for us our eyes as yet failed for our vain help in our 
watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us .

 418  They hunt our steps that we cannot go in our streets our 
end is near our days are fulfilled for our end is come .

 419  Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven 
they pursued us upon the mountains they laid wait for us in the 
wilderness .

 420  The breath of our nostrils the anointed of the LORD was 
taken in their pits of whom we said Under his shadow we shall 
live among the heathen .

 421  Rejoice and be glad O daughter of Edom that dwellest in 
the land of Uz the cup also shall pass through unto thee thou 
shalt be drunken and shalt make thyself naked .

 422  The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished O 
daughter of Zion he will no more carry thee away into captivity 
he will visit thine iniquity O daughter of Edom he will discover 
thy sins .

* 51  Remember O LORD what is come upon us consider and behold 
our reproach   .

 52  Our inheritance is turned to strangers our houses to aliens 
.

 53  We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows .

 54  We have drunken our water for money our wood is sold unto 
us .

 55  Our necks are under persecution we labour and have no rest .

 56  We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the 
Assyrians to be satisfied with bread .

 57  Our fathers have sinned and are not and we have borne their 
iniquities .

 58  Servants have ruled over us there is none that doth deliver 
us out of their hand .

 59  We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the 
sword of the wilderness .

 510  Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible 
famine .

 511  They ravished the women in Zion and the maids in the 
cities of Judah .

 512  Princes are hanged up by their hand the faces of elders 
were not honoured .

 513  They took the young men to grind and the children fell 
under the wood .

 514  The elders have ceased from the gate the young men from 
their music .

 515  The joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into 
mourning .

 516  The crown is fallen from our head woe unto us that we have 
sinned .

 517  For this our heart is faint for these things our eyes are 
dim .

 518  Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate the 
foxes walk upon it .

 519  Thou O LORD remainest for ever thy throne from generation 
to generation .

 520  Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever and forsake us so 
long time .

 521  Turn thou us unto thee O LORD and we shall be turned renew 
our days as of old .

 522  But thou hast utterly rejected us thou art very wroth 
against us .

  

 

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