Lamentations

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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 betweenwithin the straits.
1:4	The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts:assembly; all her gates are desolate:, her priests do sigh,: her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
1:5	Her adversaries are become the chiefhead, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her young children are gone into captivity before the enemyadversary.
1:6	And from the daughter of Zion all her beautymajesty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and 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,: when her people fell into the hand of the enemyadversary, and none did help her:, the adversaries saw her, andthey did mock at her sabbathsdesolations.
1:8	Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removedbecome as an unclean thing: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
1:9	Her filthiness iswas in her skirts; she rememberethremembered not her lastlatter end; therefore is she camecome down wonderfully:; she hadhath no comforter.: behold, 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 are entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
1:11	All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieverefresh the soul: see, O Lord, and considerbehold; for I am become vile.
1:13	From aboveon high 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.
1:14	The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand:; they are wreathedknit together, andthey are come up upon my neck:; he hath made my strength to fall,fail: the 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:; he hath called ana solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: the 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,; because the comforter that should relieverefresh my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.
1:17	Zion spreadeth forth her hands,; and there is none to comfort her:; the 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	The Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all peopleye peoples, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
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 theirthem meat to relieverefresh their souls.
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.
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 calledproclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.
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, and 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:; 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 pollutedprofaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.
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 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, and slewhath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: in the tabernacletent of the daughter of Zion: he hath poured out his fury like fire.
2:5	The Lord wasis become as an enemy:, he hath swallowed up Israel,; he hath swallowed up all her palaces:, he hath destroyed his strong holds,: and he 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: the Lord hath caused the solemn feastsassembly and sabbathssabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and 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, 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 feastassembly.
2:8	The Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:; he hath stretched out athe line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: thereforebut 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: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles:nations where the law is no morenot; yea, her prophets also find no vision from the Lord.
2:10	The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, andthey 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.
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 young children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
2:12	They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swoonedswoon as the wounded in the streets of the city, when 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? 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?
2:14	Thy prophets have seen vainvisions andfor foolishthee thingsof forvanity thee:and foolishness; and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turnbring awayagain thy captivity;: but have seen for thee false burdens of vanity and causes of banishment.
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 callcalled The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
2:16	All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.
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 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:; give 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; 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 inat the top of every street.
2:20	BeholdSee, O Lord, and considerbehold, to whom thou hast done this.thus! Shallshall the women eat their fruit, andthe children ofthat aare spandandled longin the 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:; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;: thou 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 side, soand there was none that escaped or remained in the day of the LordsLordS anger none escaped nor remained: those 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 hedgedfenced 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 inclosedfenced 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.
3:17	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:.
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.
3:22	It is of the LordsLordS mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.
3:23	They are new every morning:; great is thy faithfulness.
3:26	It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
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 behe 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 mercies.
3:33	For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieve the children of men.
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?
3:42	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.
3:45	Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.peoples,
3:46	Allall 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 rivers of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.
3:49	Mine eye tricklethpoureth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission.,
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, 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 mine head; then I said, I am cut off.
3:55	I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the lowlowest dungeon.
3:56	Thou hastheardest heard my voice:; hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
3:59	O Lord, 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 Lord, and all their imaginationsdevices against me;
3:62	The lips of those that rose up against me, and their deviceimagination against me all the day.
3:63	Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musicksong.
3:64	RenderThou wilt render unto them a recompence, O Lord, 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 Lord.
4:1	How is the gold become dim! how is the most finepure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out inat the top of every street.
4:3	Even the seajackals 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.
4:5	They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghillsdung hills.
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 stayedwere onlaid upon her.
4:7	Her Nazaritesnobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire:
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.
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.
4:11	The Lord hath accomplished his fury;, he hath poured out his fierce anger,; and he hath kindled a fire in Zion, andwhich it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
4:12	The kings of the earth believed not, andneither all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should haveenter entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
4:13	ForIt is because of the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,.
4:14	They havewander wandered as blind men in the streets, theythat haveare polluted themselves with blood, so that men couldcannot not touch their garments.
4:15	TheyDepart ye, they cried unto them, DepartUnclean! ye; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, theymen said among the heathennations, They shall no more sojourn therehere.
4:17	AsOur foreyes us,do ouryet eyesfail asin yetlooking failed for our vain help:; in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.
4:19	Our persecutorspursuers arewere swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursuedchased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.
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 heathennations.
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: also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
5:1	Remember, O Lord, what is Lord, come upon us: considerbehold, and beholdsee our reproach.
5:2	Our inheritance is turned tounto strangers, our houses tounto aliens.
5:5	Our neckspursuers are underupon persecutionour necks: we labourare weary, and have no rest.
5:8	Servants haverule ruled over us: there is none thatto doth deliver us out of their hand.
5:9	We gatget our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
5:10	Our skin wasis black like an oven because of the terribleburning heat of famine.
5:11	They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidsmaidens in the cities of Judah.
5:12	Princes arewere hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
5:13	TheyThe took the young men tobare grindthe mill, and the children fellstumbled under the wood.
5:14	The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musickmusic.
5:16	The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us,! thatfor we have sinned!.
5:17	For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.;
5:18	BecauseFor of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,; the foxes walk upon it.
5:19	Thou, O Lord, remainestabidest for ever; thy throne is from generation to generation.
5:22	But thou hast utterly rejected us;, thou art very wroth against us.