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1:1 How doth the city sitsits solitary, that was full of people! She ishas become as a widow, thatwho was great among the nations! She thatwho was a princess among the provinces ishas become tributarya slave!
1:2 She weepethweeps sorebitterly in the night,. andHer her tears are on her cheeks;. Among all her lovers she hathhas noneno one to comfort her:. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;. theyThey arehave become her enemies.
1:3 Judah ishas gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude;. She dwellethdwells among the nations,. sheShe findethfinds no rest:. All her persecutors overtook her withinin theher straitsdistress.
1:4 The waysroads ofto Zion do mourn, because noneno comeone comes to the solemn assembly;. All her gates are desolate,. herHer priests do sigh:. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
1:5 Her adversaries arehave become the head,. herHer enemies prosper; Forfor JehovahYahweh hathhas afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:. Her young children arehave gone into captivity before the adversary.
1:6 AndAll majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. all her majesty is departed: Her princes arehave become like hartsdeer that find no pasture,. AndThey theyhave are gone without strength before the pursuer.
1:7 Jerusalem rememberethremembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old:; Whenwhen her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and noneno didone helphelped her,. The adversaries saw her,. theyThey didmocked mock at her desolations.
1:8 Jerusalem hathhas grievously sinned;. thereforeTherefore she ishas become as an unclean. thing; All thatwho honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:. YeaYes, she sigheth,sighs and turnethturns backward.
1:9 Her filthiness was in her skirts;. sheShe remembereddidnt notremember her latter end;. Therefore is she has come down wonderfully;astoundingly. sheShe hathhas no comforter:. BeholdSee, O JehovahYahweh, my affliction; for the enemy hathhas magnified himself.
1:10 The adversary hathhas spread out his hand uponon all her pleasant things:; Forfor she hathhas seen that the nations arehave entered into her sanctuary, Concerningconcerning whom thouyou didstcommanded command that they should not enter into thineyour assembly.
1:11 All her people sigh,. theyThey seek bread;. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh thetheir soul:. SeeLook, O JehovahYahweh, and behold;see, for I amhave become abjectdespised.
1:12 Is it nothing to you, all yeyou thatwho pass by? BeholdLook, and see if there beis any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought uponon me, Wherewithwith Jehovahwhich hathYahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
1:13 From on high hathhas he sent fire into my bones, and it prevailethprevails against them;. He hathhas spread a net for my feet,. heHe hathhas turned me back:. He hathhas made me desolate and I faint all theday daylong.
1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand;. They are knit together,. theyThey arehave come up uponon my neck;. heHe hath made my strength to fail:. The Lord hathhas delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
1:15 The Lord hathhas set at noughtnothing all my mighty men inwithin the midst of me;. He hathhas called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men:. The Lord hathhas trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
1:16 For these things I weep;. mineMy eye, minemy eye runnethruns down with water;, Becausebecause the comforter thatwho should refresh my soul is far from me:. My children are desolate, because the enemy hathhas prevailed.
1:17 Zion spreadethspreads forthout her hands;. thereThere is noneno one to comfort her;. JehovahYahweh hathhas commanded concerning Jacob, that theythose thatwho are roundaround about him should be his adversaries:. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
1:18 JehovahYahweh is righteous;, for I have rebelled against his commandment:. Hear,Please Ihear prayall you, all ye peoples, and beholdsee my sorrow:. My virgins and my young men arehave gone into captivity.
1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me:. My priests and minemy elders gave up the ghostspirit in the city, Whilewhile they sought them food for themselves to refresh their souls.
1:20 BeholdLook, O JehovahYahweh; for I am in distress;. myMy heart is troubled;. My heart isturns turnedover within me;, for I have grievously rebelled:. Abroad, the sword bereaveth,bereaves. atAt home, thereit is aslike death.
1:21 They have heard that I sigh;. thereThere is noneno one to comfort me;. All minemy enemies have heard of my trouble;. theyThey are glad that thouyou hasthave done it:. ThouYou wiltwill bring the day that thouyou hasthave proclaimed, and they shallwill be like unto me.
1:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee;you. AndDo doto unto them, as thouyou hasthave done untoto me for all my transgressions:. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
2:1 How hathhas the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He hathhas cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven untoto the earth the beauty of Israel, Andand hathhasnt not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
2:2 The Lord hathhas swallowed up all the habitationsdwellings of Jacob, andwithout hathpity. not pitied: He hathhas thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;. He hathhas brought them down to the ground;. heHe hathhas profaned the kingdom and theits princes thereof.
2:3 He hathhas cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; in fierce anger. He hathhas drawn back his right hand from before the enemy:. AndHe hehas hath burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, which devourethdevours roundall aboutaround.
2:4 He hathhas bent his bow like an enemy,. heHe hathhas stood with his right hand as an adversary,. AndHe hathhas slainkilled all that were pleasant to the eye:. In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he hathhas poured out his wrath like fire.
2:5 The Lord ishas become as an enemy,. heHe hathhas swallowed up Israel;. He hathhas swallowed up all her palaces,. heHe hathhas destroyed his strongholds;. AndHe hehas hath multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
2:6 AndHe hehas hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden;. heHe hathhas destroyed his place of assembly:. JehovahYahweh hathhas caused solemn assembly and sabbathSabbath to be forgotten in Zion,. AndIn hath despised in the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.
2:7 The Lord hathhas cast off his altar,. heHe hathhas abhorred his sanctuary;. He hathhas given up into the handwalls of theher enemypalaces into the wallshand of herthe palaces:enemy. They have made a noise in theYahwehs house of Jehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly.
2:8 JehovahYahweh hathhas purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion;. He hathhas stretched out the line,. heHe hathhas not withdrawn his hand from destroying; AndHe hehas hath made the rampart and wall to lament;. theyThey languish together.
2:9 Her gates arehave sunk into the ground;. heHe hathhas destroyed and broken her bars:. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not;. YeaYes, her prophets find no vision from JehovahYahweh.
2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit uponon the ground,. theyThey keep silence;. They have cast up dust uponon their heads;. theyThey have girdedclothed themselves with sackcloth:. The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
2:11 MineMy eyes do fail with tears,. myMy heart is troubled;. My liverbile is poured uponon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, Becausebecause the young children and the sucklingsinfants swoon in the streets of the city.
2:12 They sayask to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? Whenwhen they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, Whenwhen their soul is poured out into their mothers bosom.
2:13 What shall I testify untoto theeyou? whatWhat shall I liken to theeyou, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to theeyou, that I may comfort theeyou, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thyyour breach is greatas likebig as the sea:. whoWho can heal theeyou?
2:14 ThyYour prophets have seen for thee false and foolish visions; Andfor theyyou. They have not uncovered thineyour iniquity, to bringreverse backyour thy captivity, Butbut have seen for theeyou false oraclesrevelations and causes of banishment.
2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee;you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, Thethe joy of the whole earth?
2:16 All thineyour enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee;you. They hiss and gnash thetheir teeth;. theyThey say, We have swallowed her up;. Certainly this is the day that we looked for;. weWe have found, weit. We have seen it.
2:17 JehovahYahweh hathhas done that which he purposed;planned. heHe hathhas fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old;. He hathhas thrown down, and hathhas not pitied:. AndHe hehas hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee;you. heHe hathhas exalted the horn of thineyour adversaries.
2:18 Their heart cried untoto the Lord:. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night;. Give thyselfyourself no respite;relief. Dont let notyour theeyes apple of thine eye ceaserest.
2:19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches;! Pour out thyyour heart like water before the face of the Lord:. Lift up thyyour hands toward him for the life of thyyour young children, thatwho faint for hunger at the head of every street.
2:20 SeeLook, O JehovahYahweh, and beholdsee to whom thouyou hasthave done thus! ShallShould the women eat their fruitoffspring, the children that arethey dandledheld inand thebounced handson their knees? ShallShould the priest and the prophet be slainkilled in the sanctuary of the Lord?
2:21 The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets;. My virgins and my young men arehave fallen by the sword:. ThouYou hasthave slainkilled them in the day of thineyour anger;. thouYou hasthave slaughtered, and not pitied.
2:22 ThouYou hasthave called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side;. AndThere there was noneno one that escaped or remained in the day of JehovahsYahwehs anger:. ThoseMy thatenemy has consumed those whom I have dandledcared for and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
3:1 I am the man thatwho hathhas seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
3:2 He hathhas led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.
3:3 Surely against me he turnethturns his hand against me again and again all theday daylong.
3:4 MyHe has made my flesh and my skin hath he made old;. heHe hathhas broken my bones.
3:5 He hathhas buildedbuilt against me, and compassedsurrounded me with gallbitterness and travailhardship.
3:6 He hathhas made me to dwell in dark places, as those thatwho have been long dead.
3:7 He hathhas walled me about, so that I cannotcant go forth;out. heHe hathhas made my chain heavy.
3:8 YeaYes, when I cry, and call for help, he shuttethshuts out my prayer.
3:9 He hathhas walled up my ways with hewncut stone;. heHe hathhas made my paths crooked.
3:10 He is untoto me as a bear lying in wait, as a lion in secret placeshiding.
3:11 He hathhas turned asideaway my wayspath, and pulled me in pieces;. heHe hathhas made me desolate.
3:12 He hathhas bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
3:13 He hathhas caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reinskidneys.
3:14 I amhave become a derision to all my people, and their song all theday daylong.
3:15 He hathhas filled me with bitterness,. heHe hathhas satedstuffed me with wormwood.
3:16 He hathhas also broken my teeth with gravel. stones;He hehas hath covered me with ashes.
3:17 AndYou thouhave hast removed my soul far offaway from peace;. I forgatforgot prosperity.
3:18 And I said, My strength ishas perished, andalong minewith my expectation from JehovahYahweh.
3:19 Remember minemy affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gallbitterness.
3:20 My soul hath them still inremembers remembrancethem, and is bowed down within me.
3:21 This I recall to my mind; therefore I have I hope.
3:22 It is because of JehovahsYahwehs lovingkindnessesloving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassionsmercies dont fail not.
3:23 They are new every morning;. greatGreat is thyyour faithfulness.
3:24 JehovahYahweh is my portion, saithsays my soul;. thereforeTherefore I will I hope in him.
3:25 JehovahYahweh is good untoto themthose thatwho wait for him, to the soul thatwho seekethseeks him.
3:26 It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of JehovahYahweh.
3:28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hathhas laid it uponon him.
3:29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if it is so bethat there may be hope.
3:30 Let him give his cheek to him thatwho smitethstrikes him;. letLet him be filled full withof reproach.
3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for everforever.
3:32 For though he causecauses grief, yet he will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnessesloving kindnesses.
3:33 For he dothdoes not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
3:35 Toto turn asideaway the right of a man before the face of the Most High,
3:36 Toto subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approvethdoesnt notapprove.
3:37 Who is he thatwho saithsays, and it comethcomes to pass, when the Lord commandethdoesnt command it not?
3:38 OutDoesnt evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High cometh there not evil and good?
3:39 WhereforeWhy dothshould a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to JehovahYahweh.
3:41 LetLets us lift up our heart with our hands untoto God in the heavens.
3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled;. thouYou hasthave not pardoned.
3:43 ThouYou hasthave covered us with anger and pursued us;. thouYou hasthave slain,killed. thouYou hasthave not pitied.
3:44 ThouYou hasthave covered thyselfyourself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.
3:45 ThouYou hasthave made us an offscouringoff scouring and refuse in the midstmiddle of the peoples.
3:47 FearTerror and the pit arehave come uponon us, devastation and destruction.
3:48 MineMy eye runnethruns down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49 MineMy eye pourethpours down, and ceasethdoesnt notcease, without any intermission,
3:50 Tilluntil JehovahYahweh looklooks down, and beholdsees from heaven.
3:51 MineMy eye affectethaffects my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.
3:52 They have chased me sorerelentlessly like a bird, theythose thatwho are minemy enemies without cause.
3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone uponon me.
3:54 Waters flowed over my head;. I said, I am cut off.
3:55 I called uponon thyyour name, O JehovahYahweh, out of the lowest dungeon.
3:56 ThouYou heardestheard my voice;: Dont hide notyour thine ear atfrom my breathingsighing, atand my cry.
3:57 ThouYou drewestcame near in the day that I called uponon thee;you. thouYou saidstsaid, FearDont notbe afraid.
3:58 O Lord, thouyou hasthave pleaded the causes of my soul;. thouYou hasthave redeemed my life.
3:59 O JehovahYahweh, thouyou hasthave seen my wrong;. judgeJudge thou my cause.
3:60 ThouYou hasthave seen all their vengeance and all their devicesplans against me.
3:61 ThouYou hasthave heard their reproach, O JehovahYahweh, and all their devicesplans against me,
3:62 Thethe lips of those that rose up against me, and their deviceplots against me all theday daylong.
3:63 BeholdYou thousee their sitting down, and their rising up;. I am their song.
3:64 ThouYou wiltwill renderpay unto them a recompenseback, O JehovahYahweh, according to the work of their hands.
3:65 ThouYou wiltwill give them hardness of heart, thyyour curse untoto them.
3:66 ThouYou wiltwill pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of JehovahYahweh.
4:1 How is the gold has become dim! howThe is the most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.
4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, Howhow they are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
4:3 Even the jackals drawoffer outtheir the breast,. theyThey givenurse suck to their young ones:. TheBut the daughter of my people ishas become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4:4 The tongue of the suckingnursing child cleavethclings to the roof of his mouth for thirst:. The young children ask for bread, and no manone breakethbreaks it untofor them.
4:5 TheyThose thatwho didate feeddelicacies delicately are desolate in the streets:. TheyThose thatwho were brought up in scarletpurple embrace dunghills.
4:6 For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, Thatwhich was overthrown as in a moment,. andNo no hands were laid uponon her.
4:7 Her nobles were purer than snow,. theyThey were whiter than milk;. They were more ruddy in body than rubies,. theirTheir polishing was aslike of sapphire.
4:8 Their visageappearance is blacker than a coal;. theyThey are not known in the streets:. Their skin cleavethclings to their bones;. itIt is withered,. itIt ishas become like a stickwood.
4:9 TheyThose thatwho are slainkilled with the sword are better than theythose thatwho are slainkilled with hunger; Forfor these pine away, stricken through, for wantlack of the fruits of the field.
4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children;. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
4:11 JehovahYahweh hathhas accomplished his wrath,. heHe hathhas poured out his fierce anger;. AndHe hehas hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hathhas devoured theits foundations thereof.
4:12 The kings of the earth believeddidnt notbelieve, neither did all the inhabitants of the world, Thatthat the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.
4:13 It is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, Thatthat have shed the blood of the just in the midstmiddle of her.
4:14 They wander as blind men in the streets,. theyThey are polluted with blood, So that men cannotcant touch their garments.
4:15 DepartGo ye,away! they cried untoto them,. Unclean! depart,Go depart,away! touchGo notaway! Dont touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shallcant nolive morehere sojournany heremore.
4:16 TheYahwehs anger ofhas Jehovah hath scattered them;. heHe will nonot morepay regardattention to them: any more. They respecteddidnt notrespect the persons of the priests,. theyThey favoreddidnt notfavor the elders.
4:17 Our eyes dostill yet fail, looking in lookingvain for our vain help:. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.
4:18 They hunt our steps, so that we cannotcant go in our streets:. Our end is near,. ourOur days are fulfilled;, for our end ishas come.
4:19 Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens:sky. They chased us uponon the mountains,. theyThey laidset waitan ambush for us in the wilderness.
4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of JehovahYahweh, was taken in their pits; Ofof whom we said, Underunder his shadow we shallwill live among the nations.
4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, thatwho dwellestdwells in the land of Uz:. The cup shallwill pass through untoto theeyou also;. thouYou shaltwill be drunken, and shaltwill make thyselfyourself naked.
4:22 The punishment of thineyour iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion;. heHe will no more carry theeyou away into captivity:. He will visit thineyour iniquity, O daughter of Edom;. heHe will uncover thyyour sins.
5:1 Remember, O JehovahYahweh, what ishas come uponon us:. BeholdLook, and see our reproach.
5:2 Our inheritance ishas been turned untoover to strangers, Ourour houses untoto aliens.
5:3 We are orphans and fatherless;. Our mothers are as widows.
5:4 We havemust drunkenpay ourfor water forto money;drink. Our wood is sold untoto us.
5:5 Our pursuers are uponon our necks:. We are weary, and have no rest.
5:6 We have given theour handhands to the Egyptians, Andand to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
5:7 Our fathers sinned, and are not;no Andmore. weWe have borne their iniquities.
5:8 Servants rule over us:. There is noneno one to deliver us out of their hand.
5:9 We get our bread at the peril of our lives, Becausebecause of the sword ofin the wilderness.
5:10 Our skin is black like an oven, Becausebecause of the burning heat of famine.
5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, Thethe virgins in the cities of Judah.
5:12 Princes were hanged up by their hand:hands. The faces of elders were not honored.
5:13 The young men barecarry themillstones. mill;The And the children stumbled under theloads of wood.
5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, Theand the young men from their music.
5:15 The joy of our heart ishas ceased;. Our dance is turned into mourning.
5:16 The crown ishas fallen from our head:. Woe untoto us!, for we have sinned.!
5:17 For this our heart is faint;. For these things our eyes are dim;:
5:18 Forfor the mountain of Zion, which is desolate:. The foxes walk uponon it.
5:19 ThouYou, O JehovahYahweh, abidestremain forforever. ever;Your Thy throne is from generation to generation.
5:20 WhereforeWhy dostdo thouyou forget us for everforever, Andand forsake us for so long a time?
5:21 Turn thou us untoto theeyourself, O JehovahYahweh, and we shallwill be turned;. Renew our days as of old.
5:22 But thouyou hasthave utterly rejected us;. ThouYou artare very wrothangry against us.