Lamentations Chapter 1
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! |
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. |
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. |
1:4 | The ways of Zion ![]() ![]() |
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. |
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. |
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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]. |
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. |
1:11 | All her people sigh, they seek ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1:12 | [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and ![]() ![]() |
1:13 | From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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. |
1:15 | The Lord hath trodden under ![]() ![]() |
1:16 | For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with ![]() |
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: ![]() |
1:18 | The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my ![]() |
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 ![]() |
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 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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 ![]() |
1:22 | Let all their wickedness come before thee; and ![]() |