| 1:2 |
She weeps bitterly in the night, And her tears are on her cheeks; She has none to comfort her Among all her lovers. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies. |
| 1:3 |
Judah has gone into exile under affliction, And under harsh servitude; She dwells among the nations, But she has found no rest; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of distress. |
| 1:6 |
AndAll all her majesty Has departed from the daughter of Zion; Her princes have become like bucksdeer That have found no pasture; And they have fled without strength Before the pursuer. |
| 1:7 |
In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her ruin. |
| 1:9 |
Her uncleanness was in her skirts; She did not consider her future;. Therefore she has fallen astonishingly; She has no comforter. See, O Lord, my affliction, For the enemy has magnified himself! |
| 1:10 |
The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things, For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary, The ones whom ThouYou didstcommanded command That they should not enter into ThyYour congregation. |
| 1:13 |
From on high He sent fire into my bones, And it prevailed over them;. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me desolate, Faint all day long. |
| 1:14 |
The yoke of my transgressions is bound; By His hand they are knit together;. They have come upon my neck; He has made my strength fail;. The Lord has given me into the hands Of those against whom I am not able to stand. |
| 1:16 |
For these things I weep; My eyes run down with water; Because far from me is a comforter, One who restores my soul;. My children are desolate Because the enemy has prevailed. |
| 1:19 |
I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; My priests and my elders perished in the city, While they sought food to restore their strength themselves. |
| 1:21 |
They have heard that I groan; There is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my calamity; They are glad that ThouYou hasthave done it. Oh, that ThouYou wouldstwould bring the day which ThouYou hasthave proclaimed, That they may become like me. |
| 1:22 |
Let all their wickedness come before TheeYou; And deal with them as ThouYou hasthave dealt with me For all my transgressions; For my groans are many, and my heart is faint. |
| 2:4 |
He has bent His bow like an enemy,; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire. |
| 2:5 |
The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces;, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning. |
| 2:6 |
And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place;. The Lord has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger. |
| 2:8 |
The Lord determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out a line, He has not restrained His hand from destroying;, And He has caused rampart and wall to lament; They have languished together. |
| 2:9 |
Her gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations; The law is no more;. Also, her prophets find No vision from the Lord. |
| 2:11 |
My eyes fail because of tears, My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is poured out on the earth, Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, When little ones and infants faint In the streets of the city. |
| 2:15 |
All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, Is this the city of which they said, The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth ? |
| 2:18 |
Their heart cried out to the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears run down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief;, Let your eyes have no rest. |
| 2:20 |
See, O Lord, and look! With whom hasthave ThouYou dealt thus? Should women eat their offspring, The little ones who were born healthy? Should priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord? |
| 2:21 |
On the ground in the streets Lie young and old,; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword. ThouYou hasthave slain them in the day of ThineYour anger, ThouYou hasthave slaughtered, not sparing. |
| 2:22 |
ThouYou didstcalled call as in the day of an appointed feast My terrors on every side; And there was no one who escaped or survived In the day of the Lords anger. Those whom I bore and reared, My enemy annihilated them. |
| 3:16 |
And He has broken my teeth with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust. |
| 3:17 |
AndMy my soul has been rejected from peace; I have forgotten happiness. |
| 3:23 |
They are new every morning; Great is ThyYour faithfulness. |
| 3:30 |
Let him give his cheek to the smiter;, Let him be filled with reproach. |
| 3:33 |
For He does not afflict willingly, Or grieve the sons of men. |
| 3:36 |
To defraud a man in his lawsuit— Of these things the Lord does not approve. |
| 3:42 |
We have transgressed and rebelled, ThouYou hasthave not pardoned. |
| 3:43 |
ThouYou hasthave covered ThyselfYourself with anger And pursued us; ThouYou hasthave slain and hasthave not spared. |
| 3:44 |
ThouYou hasthave covered ThyselfYourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through. |
| 3:45 |
MereYou offscouringhave andmade refuseus Thoumere hastoffscouring madeand usrefuse In the midst of the peoples. |
| 3:55 |
I called on ThyYour name, O Lord, Out of the lowest pit. |
| 3:56 |
ThouYou hasthave heard my voice, Do not hide ThineYour ear from my prayer for relief, From my cry for help. |
| 3:57 |
ThouYou didstdrew draw near when I called on TheeYou; ThouYou didst saysaid, Do not fear! |
| 3:58 |
O Lord, ThouYou didsthave pleadpleaded my souls cause; ThouYou hasthave redeemed my life. |
| 3:59 |
O Lord, ThouYou hasthave seen my oppression; Judge my case. |
| 3:60 |
ThouYou hasthave seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me. |
| 3:61 |
ThouYou hasthave heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me. |
| 3:64 |
ThouYou wiltwill recompense them, O Lord, According to the work of their hands. |
| 3:65 |
ThouYou wiltwill give them hardness of heart, ThyYour curse will be on them. |
| 3:66 |
ThouYou wiltwill pursue them in anger and destroy them From under the heavens of the Lord! |
| 4:13 |
Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquities of her priests, Who have shed in her midst The blood of the righteous,; |
| 4:16 |
The presence of the Lord has scattered them;, He will not continue to regard them.; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders. |
| 4:17 |
Yet our eyes failed;, Looking for help was useless.; In our watching we have watched For a nation that could not save. |
| 4:19 |
Our pursuers were swifter Than the eagles of the sky.; They chased us on the mountains;, They waited in ambush for us in the wilderness. |
| 5:13 |
Young men worked at the grinding mill;, And youths stumbled under loads of wood. |
| 5:17 |
Because of this our heart is faint;, Because of these things our eyes are dim; |
| 5:19 |
ThouYou, O Lord, dost rule forever; ThyYour throne is from generation to generation. |
| 5:20 |
Why dostdo ThouYou forget us forever;? Why dostdo ThouYou forsake us so long? |
| 5:21 |
Restore us to TheeYou, O Lord, that we may be restored; Renew our days as of old, |
| 5:22 |
Unless ThouYou hasthave utterly rejected us, And artare exceedingly angry with us. |