| 1:1 |
How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people howShe is she become as a widow she that was great among the nations andShe that was a princess among the provinces how is she become tributary |
| 1:2 |
She weepeth sore in the night and her tears are on her cheeks:; amongAmong all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: allAll 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:; sheShe dwelleth among the heathennations she findeth no rest: allAll her persecutors overtook her betweenwithin the straits |
| 1:4 |
The ways of Zion do mourn because none come to the solemn feasts:assembly; allAll her gates are desolate: her priests do sigh: herHer virgins are afflicted and she herself is in bitterness |
| 1:5 |
Her adversaries are become the chiefhead her enemies prosper; forFor theJehovah Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: herHer young children are gone into captivity before the enemyadversary |
| 1:6 |
And from the daughter of Zion all her beautymajesty is departed: herHer princes are become like harts that find no pasture andAnd they are gone without strength before the pursuer |
| 1:7 |
Jerusalem rememberedremembereth in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that shewere hadfrom in the days of old: whenWhen her people fell into the hand of the enemyadversary and none did help her: theThe adversaries saw her andthey did mock at her sabbathsdesolations |
| 1:8 |
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed:become allas an unclean thing; All that honouredhonored her despise her because they have seen her nakedness: yeaYea she sigheth and turneth backward |
| 1:9 |
Her filthiness iswas in her skirts; she rememberethremembered not her lastlatter end; thereforeTherefore is she camecome down wonderfully:; she hadhath no comforter: Behold O LordJehovah behold my affliction:; for the enemy hath magnified himself |
| 1:10 |
The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: forFor she hath seen that the heathennations are entered into her sanctuary Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thythine congregationassembly |
| 1:11 |
All her people sigh they seek bread; theyThey have given their pleasant things for meatfood to relieverefresh the soul: seeSee O LordJehovah and considerbehold; for I am become vileabject |
| 1:12 |
Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by beholdBehold and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow which is donebrought untoupon me wherewithWherewith theJehovah Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger |
| 1:13 |
From aboveon high hath he sent fire into my bones and it prevaileth against them:; heHe hath spread a net for my feet he hath turned me back: heHe hath made me desolate and faint all the day |
| 1:14 |
The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand:; theyThey are wreathedknit andtogether they are come up upon my neck:; he hath made my strength to fallfail: theThe Lord hath delivered me into their hands fromagainst whom I am not able to rise upstand |
| 1:15 |
The Lord hath troddenset underat footnought all my mighty men in the midst of me:; heHe hath called ana solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: theThe Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin the daughter of Judah as in a winepress |
| 1:16 |
For these things I weep; mine eye mine eye runneth down with water; becauseBecause the comforter that should relieverefresh my soul is far from me: myMy children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed |
| 1:17 |
Zion spreadeth forth her hands; and there is none to comfort her:; theJehovah Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob that histhey adversariesthat shouldare be round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is asamong athem menstruousas womanan amongunclean themthing |
| 1:18 |
TheJehovah Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hearHear I pray you all peopleye peoples and behold my sorrow: myMy virgins and my young men are gone into captivity |
| 1:19 |
I called for my lovers but they deceived me: myMy priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city whileWhile they sought theirthem meatfood to relieverefresh their souls |
| 1:20 |
Behold O LordJehovah; for I am in distress:; my bowelsheart areis troubled; mineMy heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroadAbroad the sword bereaveth at home there is as death |
| 1:21 |
They have heard that I sigh:; there is none to comfort me:; allAll mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thouThou wilt bring the day that thou hast calledproclaimed and they shall be like unto me |
| 1:22 |
Let all their wickedness come before thee; andAnd do unto them as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: forFor my sighs are many and my heart is faint |
| 2:1 |
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger andHe hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel andAnd rememberedhath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger |
| 2:2 |
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob and hath not pitied: heHe hath thrown down in his wrath the strongstrongholds holds of the daughter of Judah; heHe hath brought them down to the ground:; he hath pollutedprofaned the kingdom and the princes thereof |
| 2:3 |
He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel:; heHe hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: andAnd he hath burned againstup Jacob like a flaming fire which devoureth round about |
| 2:4 |
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he hath stood with his right hand as an adversary andAnd slewhath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: inIn the tabernacletent of the daughter of Zion: he hath poured out his furywrath like fire |
| 2:5 |
The Lord wasis become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel; heHe hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strongstrongholds; holdsAnd andhe hath increasedmultiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation |
| 2:6 |
And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle as if it were of a garden:; he hath destroyed his placesplace of the assembly: theJehovah Lord hath caused the solemn feastsassembly and sabbathssabbath to be forgotten in Zion andAnd hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest |
| 2:7 |
The Lord hath cast off his altar he hath abhorred his sanctuary; heHe hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;: theyThey have made a noise in the house of theJehovah Lord as in the day of a solemn feastassembly |
| 2:8 |
TheJehovah Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:; heHe hath stretched out athe line he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:; thereforeAnd he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languishedlanguish together |
| 2:9 |
Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: herHer king and her princes are among the Gentiles:nations where the law is no morenot; Yea her prophets also find no vision from the LordJehovah |
| 2:10 |
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground andthey keep silence:; theyThey have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: theThe virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground |
| 2:11 |
Mine eyes do fail with tears my bowelsheart areis troubled; myMy liver is poured upon the earth forbecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people; becauseBecause the young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city |
| 2:12 |
They say to their mothers Where is corngrain and wine whenWhen they swoonedswoon as the wounded in the streets of the city whenWhen their soul wasis poured out into their mothers bosom |
| 2:13 |
What thing shall I taketestify tounto witness for thee what thing shall I liken to thee O daughter of Jerusalem whatWhat shall I equalcompare to thee that I may comfort thee O virgin daughter of Zion forFor thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee |
| 2:14 |
Thy prophets have seen vainfor thee false and foolish thingsvisions; forAnd thee: and they have not discovereduncovered thine iniquity to turnbring awayback thy captivity; butBut have seen for thee false burdensoracles and causes of banishment |
| 2:15 |
All that pass by clap their hands at thee; theyThey hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem saying Is this the city that men callcalled The perfection of beauty The joy of the whole earth |
| 2:16 |
All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide against thee:; theyThey hiss and gnash the teeth:; they say We have swallowed her up:; certainlyCertainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found we have seen it |
| 2:17 |
TheJehovah Lord hath done that which he had devisedpurposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:; heHe hath thrown down and hath not pitied: andAnd he hath caused thinethe enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath setexalted up the horn of thine adversaries |
| 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:; giveGive thyself no restrespite; let not the apple of thine eye cease |
| 2:19 |
Arise cry out in the night: inat the beginning of the watches; pourPour out thinethy heart like water before the face of the Lord: liftLift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children that faint for hunger inat the tophead of every street |
| 2:20 |
BeholdSee O LordJehovah and considerbehold to whom thou hast done thisthus Shall the women eat their fruit andthe children ofthat aare spandandled longin shallthe hands Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord |
| 2:21 |
The youngyouth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets:; myMy virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;: thouThou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killedslaughtered and not pitied |
| 2:22 |
Thou hast called as in the day of a solemn dayassembly my terrors roundon aboutevery soside; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of theJehovahs Lords anger none escaped nor remained: thoseThose that I have swaddleddandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed |
| 3:1 |
I Amam the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath |
| 3:2 |
He hath led me and broughtcaused me intoto walk in darkness butand not intoin light |
| 3:3 |
Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand againstagain meand again all the day |
| 3:6 |
He hath setmade me to dwell in dark places as theythose that behave deadbeen oflong olddead |
| 3:7 |
He hath hedgedwalled me about that I cannot getgo out:forth; he hath made my chain heavy |
| 3:8 |
AlsoYea when I cry and shoutcall for help he shutteth out my prayer |
| 3:9 |
He hath inclosedwalled up my ways with hewn stone; he hath made my paths crooked |
| 3:10 |
He wasis unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in secret places |
| 3:11 |
He hath turned aside my ways and pulled me in pieces:; he hath made me desolate |
| 3:13 |
He hath caused the arrowsshafts of his quiver to enter into my reins |
| 3:14 |
I wasam become a derision to all my people; and their song all the day |
| 3:15 |
He hath filled me with bitterness he hath madesated me drunken with wormwood |
| 3:16 |
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes |
| 3:17 |
And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace:; I forgat prosperity |
| 3:18 |
And I said My strength andis myperished hopeand ismine perishedexpectation from the Lord:Jehovah |
| 3:19 |
RememberingRemember mine affliction and my misery the wormwood and the gall |
| 3:20 |
My soul hath them still in remembrance and is humbledbowed indown within me |
| 3:21 |
This I recall to my mind; therefore have I hope |
| 3:22 |
It is of theJehovahs Lordslovingkindnesses mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not |
| 3:23 |
They are new every morning:; great is thy faithfulness |
| 3:24 |
TheJehovah Lord is my portion saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him |
| 3:25 |
TheJehovah Lord is good unto them that wait for him to the soul that seeketh him |
| 3:26 |
It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LordJehovah |
| 3:28 |
HeLet sittethhim sit alone and keepethkeep silence because he hath bornelaid it upon him |
| 3:29 |
HeLet puttethhim put his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope |
| 3:30 |
HeLet givethhim give his cheek to him that smiteth him:; helet ishim be filled full with reproach |
| 3:31 |
For the Lord will not cast off for ever: |
| 3:32 |
ButFor though he cause grief yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercieslovingkindnesses |
| 3:34 |
To crush under hisfoot feet all the prisoners of the earth |
| 3:35 |
To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the mostMost High |
| 3:38 |
Out of the mouth of the mostMost High proceedethcometh there not evil and good |
| 3:40 |
Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the LordJehovah |
| 3:42 |
We have transgressed and have rebelled:; thou hast not pardoned |
| 3:43 |
Thou hast covered with anger and persecutedpursued us:; thou hast slain thou hast not pitied |
| 3:44 |
Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud so that ourno prayer shouldcan not pass through |
| 3:45 |
Thou hast made us asan the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoplepeoples |
| 3:46 |
All our enemies have opened their mouthsmouth wide against us |
| 3:47 |
Fear and athe snarepit isare come upon us desolationdevastation and destruction |
| 3:48 |
Mine eye runneth down with riversstreams of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people |
| 3:49 |
Mine eye tricklethpoureth down and ceaseth not without any intermission |
| 3:50 |
Till theJehovah Lord look down and behold from heaven |
| 3:51 |
Mine eye affecteth minemy heartsoul because of all the daughters of my city |
| 3:52 |
MineThey enemieshave chased me sore like a bird they that are mine enemies without cause |
| 3:53 |
They have cut off my life in the dungeon and have cast a stone upon me |
| 3:54 |
Waters flowed over minemy head; then I said I am cut off |
| 3:55 |
I called upon thy name O LordJehovah out of the lowlowest dungeon |
| 3:56 |
Thou hastheardest heard my voice:; hide not thine ear at my breathing at my cry |
| 3:57 |
Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee:; thou saidst Fear not |
| 3:59 |
O LordJehovah thou hast seen my wrong:; judge thou my cause |
| 3:60 |
Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginationsdevices against me |
| 3:61 |
Thou hast heard their reproach O LordJehovah and all their imaginationsdevices against me; |
| 3:63 |
Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up; I am their musicksong |
| 3:64 |
RenderThou wilt render unto them a recompencerecompense O LordJehovah according to the work of their hands |
| 3:65 |
GiveThou wilt give them sorrowhardness of heart thy curse unto them |
| 3:66 |
PersecuteThou andwilt destroypursue them in anger and destroy them from under the heavens of the LordJehovah |
| 4:1 |
How is the gold become dim how is the most finepure gold changed theThe stones of the sanctuary are poured out inat the tophead of every street |
| 4:2 |
The precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold howHow are they esteemed as earthen pitchers the work of the hands of the potter |
| 4:3 |
Even the seajackals monsters draw out the breast they give suck to their young ones: theThe daughter of my people is become cruel like the ostriches in the wilderness |
| 4:4 |
The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: theThe young children ask bread and no man breaketh it unto them |
| 4:5 |
They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: theyThey that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills |
| 4:6 |
For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom thatThat was overthrown as in a moment and no hands stayedwere onlaid upon her |
| 4:7 |
Her Nazaritesnobles were purer than snow they were whiter than milk; theyThey were more ruddy in body than rubies their polishing was as of sapphire: |
| 4:8 |
Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: theirTheir skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered it is become like a stick |
| 4:9 |
They that beare slain with the sword are better than they that beare slain with hunger:; forFor these pine away stricken through for want of the fruits of the field |
| 4:10 |
The hands of the pitiful women have soddenboiled their own children:; theyThey were their meatfood in the destruction of the daughter of my people |
| 4:11 |
TheJehovah Lord hath accomplished his fury;wrath he hath poured out his fierce anger; andAnd he hath kindled a fire in Zion andwhich it hath devoured the foundations thereof |
| 4:12 |
The kings of the earth andbelieved not neither all the inhabitants of the world wouldThat not have believed that the adversary and the enemy shouldwould haveenter entered into the gates of Jerusalem |
| 4:13 |
ForIt is because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests thatThat have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her |
| 4:14 |
They havewander wandered as blind men in the streets they haveare polluted themselves with blood soSo that men couldcannot not touch their garments |
| 4:15 |
TheyDepart ye they cried unto them DepartUnclean ye; it is unclean; depart depart touch not: whenWhen they fled away and wandered theymen said among the heathennations They shall no more sojourn therehere |
| 4:16 |
The anger of theJehovah Lord hath dividedscattered them; he will no more regard them: theyThey respected not the persons of the priests they favouredfavored not the elders |
| 4:17 |
AsOur foreyes usdo ouryet eyesfail asin yetlooking failed for our vain help: inIn our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us |
| 4:18 |
They hunt our steps so that we cannot go in our streets: ourOur end is near our days are fulfilled; for our end is come |
| 4:19 |
Our persecutorspursuers arewere swifter than the eagles of the heavenheavens: theyThey pursuedchased us upon the mountains they laid wait for us in the wilderness |
| 4:20 |
The breath of our nostrils the anointed of theJehovah Lord was taken in their pits; ofOf whom we said Under his shadow we shall live among the heathennations |
| 4:21 |
Rejoice and be glad O daughter of Edom that dwellest in the land of Uz;: theThe cup also shall pass through unto thee: also; thou shalt be drunken and shalt make thyself naked |
| 4:22 |
The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: heHe will visit thine iniquity O daughter of Edom; he will discoveruncover thy sins |
| 5:1 |
Remember O LordJehovah what is come upon us: considerBehold and beholdsee our reproach |
| 5:2 |
Our inheritance is turned tounto strangers ourOur houses tounto aliens |
| 5:3 |
We are orphans and fatherless; ourOur mothers are as widows |
| 5:4 |
We have drunken our water for money; ourOur wood is sold unto us |
| 5:5 |
Our neckspursuers are underupon persecutionour necks: weWe labourare weary and have no rest |
| 5:6 |
We have given the hand to the Egyptians andAnd to the Assyrians to be satisfied with bread |
| 5:7 |
Our fathers have sinned and are not; andAnd we have borne their iniquities |
| 5:8 |
Servants haverule ruled over us: thereThere is none thatto doth deliver us out of their hand |
| 5:9 |
We gatget our bread withat the peril of our lives becauseBecause of the sword of the wilderness |
| 5:10 |
Our skin wasis black like an oven becauseBecause of the terribleburning heat of famine |
| 5:11 |
They ravished the women in Zion andThe thevirgins maids in the cities of Judah |
| 5:12 |
Princes arewere hanged up by their hand: theThe faces of elders were not honouredhonored |
| 5:13 |
TheyThe took the young men tobare grindthe andmill; And the children fellstumbled under the wood |
| 5:14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate theThe young men from their musickmusic |
| 5:15 |
The joy of our heart is ceased; ourOur dance is turned into mourning |
| 5:16 |
The crown is fallen from our head: woeWoe unto us thatfor we have sinned |
| 5:17 |
For this our heart is faint; forFor these things our eyes are dim; |
| 5:18 |
BecauseFor of the mountain of Zion which is desolate: theThe foxes walk upon it |
| 5:19 |
Thou O LordJehovah remainestabidest for ever; thyThy throne is from generation to generation |
| 5:20 |
Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever andAnd forsake us so long time |
| 5:21 |
Turn thou us unto thee O LordJehovah and we shall be turned; renewRenew our days as of old |
| 5:22 |
But thou hast utterly rejected us; thouThou art very wroth against us |