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{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 {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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.
{Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. ]{Lamentations 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.
{Lamentations 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.

{Lamentations 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.
{Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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.

{Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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.
{Lamentations 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. {Lamentations 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.

{Lamentations 2:1} 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! {Lamentations 2:2}
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. {Lamentations 2:3} 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. {Lamentations 2:4} 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. {Lamentations 2:5} 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. {Lamentations 2:6} 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. {Lamentations 2:7} 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. {Lamentations 2:8} 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. {Lamentations 2:9} 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. {Lamentations 2:10} 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. {Lamentations 2:11} 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. {Lamentations 2:12} 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. {Lamentations 2:13} 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? {Lamentations 2:14} 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. {Lamentations 2:15} 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? {Lamentations 2:16} 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. ]{Lamentations 2:17} 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.
{Lamentations 2:18} 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. {Lamentations 2:19} 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.

{Lamentations 2:20} 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?
{Lamentations 2:21} 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.
{Lamentations 2:22} 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.

{Lamentations 3:1} I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his
wrath. {Lamentations 3:2} He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not
[into] light. {Lamentations 3:3} Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand
[against me] all the day. {Lamentations 3:4} My flesh and my skin hath he made old;
he hath broken my bones. {Lamentations 3:5} He hath builded against me, and
compassed [me] with gall and travail. {Lamentations 3:6} He hath set me in dark
places, as [they that be] dead of old. {Lamentations 3:7} He hath hedged me about,
that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy. {Lamentations 3:8} Also when I
cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer. {Lamentations 3:9} He hath inclosed my
ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked. {Lamentations 3:10} He [was]
unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.
{Lamentations 3:11} He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath
made me desolate. {Lamentations 3:12} He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for
the arrow. {Lamentations 3:13} He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into
my reins. {Lamentations 3:14} I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song
all the day. {Lamentations 3:15} He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me
drunken with wormwood. {Lamentations 3:16} He hath also broken my teeth with gravel
stones, he hath covered me with ashes. {Lamentations 3:17} And thou hast removed my
soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity. {Lamentations 3:18} And I said, My
strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: {Lamentations 3:19} Remembering mine
affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall. {Lamentations 3:20} My soul
hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me. {Lamentations 3:21} This I
recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

{Lamentations 3:22} [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed,
because his compassions fail not. {Lamentations 3:23} [They are] new every morning:
great [is] thy faithfulness. {Lamentations 3:24} The LORD [is] my portion, saith my
soul; therefore will I hope in him. {Lamentations 3:25} The LORD [is] good unto them
that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him. {Lamentations 3:26} [It is] good
that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the
LORD. {Lamentations 3:27} [It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
{Lamentations 3:28} He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it
upon him. {Lamentations 3:29} He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may
be hope. {Lamentations 3:30} He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is
filled full with reproach. {Lamentations 3:31} For the Lord will not cast off for
ever: {Lamentations 3:32} But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion
according to the multitude of his mercies. {Lamentations 3:33} For he doth not
afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. {Lamentations 3:34} To crush under
his feet all the prisoners of the earth, {Lamentations 3:35} To turn aside the right
of a man before the face of the most High, {Lamentations 3:36} To subvert a man in
his cause, the Lord approveth not. {Lamentations 3:37} Who [is] he [that] saith, and
it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not? {Lamentations 3:38} Out of
the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? {Lamentations 3:39}
Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his
sins? {Lamentations 3:40} Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the
LORD. {Lamentations 3:41} Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the
heavens. {Lamentations 3:42} We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not
pardoned. {Lamentations 3:43} Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou
hast slain, thou hast not pitied. {Lamentations 3:44} Thou hast covered thyself with
a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through. {Lamentations 3:45} Thou hast
made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
{Lamentations 3:46} All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. {Lamentations 3:47} Fear
and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction. {Lamentations 3:48} Mine
eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the
daughter of my people. {Lamentations 3:49} Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not,
without any intermission, {Lamentations 3:50} Till the LORD look down, and behold
from heaven. {Lamentations 3:51} Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the
daughters of my city. {Lamentations 3:52} Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird,
without cause. {Lamentations 3:53} They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and
cast a stone upon me. {Lamentations 3:54} Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I
said, I am cut off. {Lamentations 3:55} I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the
low dungeon. {Lamentations 3:56} Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my
breathing, at my cry. {Lamentations 3:57} Thou drewest near in the day [that] I
called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not. {Lamentations 3:58} O Lord, thou hast
pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. {Lamentations 3:59} O
LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause. {Lamentations 3:60} Thou hast
seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.
{Lamentations 3:61} Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their
imaginations against me; {Lamentations 3:62} The lips of those that rose up against
me, and their device against me all the day. {Lamentations 3:63} Behold their
sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their musick.

{Lamentations 3:64} Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work
of their hands. {Lamentations 3:65} Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
{Lamentations 3:66} Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of
the LORD.

{Lamentations 4:1} 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. {Lamentations 4:2} The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how
are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the
potter! {Lamentations 4:3} 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. {Lamentations 4:4} 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. {Lamentations 4:5} They that did feed
delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in
scarlet embrace dunghills. {Lamentations 4:6} 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.
{Lamentations 4:7} Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,
they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of
sapphire: {Lamentations 4:8} 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. {Lamentations 4:9} [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. {Lamentations 4:10} The
hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were
their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. {Lamentations 4:11} 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. {Lamentations 4:12} 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.

{Lamentations 4:13} 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,
{Lamentations 4:14} They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have
polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their
garments. {Lamentations 4:15} 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. ]{Lamentations 4:16} 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.
{Lamentations 4:17} 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.
]{Lamentations 4:18} They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end
is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come. {Lamentations 4:19} Our
persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us
upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. {Lamentations 4:20} 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.

{Lamentations 4:21} 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.

{Lamentations 4:22} 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.

{Lamentations 5:1} Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold
our reproach. {Lamentations 5:2} Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses
to aliens. {Lamentations 5:3} We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as
widows. {Lamentations 5:4} We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold
unto us. {Lamentations 5:5} Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have
no rest. {Lamentations 5:6} We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the
Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread. {Lamentations 5:7} Our fathers have sinned,
[and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities. {Lamentations 5:8} Servants have
ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their
hand. {Lamentations 5:9} We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of
the sword of the wilderness. {Lamentations 5:10} Our skin was black like an oven
because of the terrible famine. {Lamentations 5:11} They ravished the women in Zion,
[and] the maids in the cities of Judah. {Lamentations 5:12} Princes are hanged up by
their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured. {Lamentations 5:13} They took the
young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood. {Lamentations 5:14} The
elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
{Lamentations 5:15} The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into
mourning. {Lamentations 5:16} The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that
we have sinned! {Lamentations 5:17} For this our heart is faint; for these [things]
our eyes are dim. {Lamentations 5:18} Because of the mountain of Zion, which is
desolate, the foxes walk upon it. {Lamentations 5:19} Thou, O LORD, remainest for
ever; thy throne from generation to generation. {Lamentations 5:20} Wherefore dost
thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time? {Lamentations 5:21} Turn
thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of
old. {Lamentations 5:22} But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth
against us.