| 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 within the straits. |
| 1:4 |
The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn 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 head, her enemies prosper; forFor theJehovah Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: herHer young children are gone into captivity before the adversary. |
| 1:6 |
And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed: herHer princes are become like harts that find no pasture, andAnd they are gone without strength before the pursuer. |
| 1:7 |
Jerusalem remembereth 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 none did help her, theThe adversaries saw her, they did mock at her desolations. |
| 1:8 |
Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is become as an unclean thing:; allAll that honouredhonored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yeaYea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. |
| 1:9 |
Her filthiness was in her skirts; she remembered not her latter end; thereforeTherefore is she come down wonderfully; she hath no comforter: beholdBehold, O LordJehovah, 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, concerningConcerning 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 refresh the soul: seeSee, O LordJehovah, and behold; 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 on 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 knit together, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fail: theThe Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand. |
| 1:15 |
The Lord hath set at nought all my mighty men in the midst of me; heHe hath called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men: theThe Lord hath trodden as in a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah. |
| 1:16 |
For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; becauseBecause the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: myMy children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed. |
| 1:17 |
Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort her; theJehovah Lord hath commanded concerning Jacob, that they that are round about him should be his adversaries: Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing. |
| 1:18 |
TheJehovah Lord is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hearHear, I pray you, all ye 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 them meatfood to refresh 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 proclaimed, 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! heHe hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, andAnd hath 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 profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof. |
| 2:3 |
He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel; heHe hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy: andAnd he hath burned up 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 hath slain all that were pleasant to the eye: inIn the tent of the daughter of Zion he hath poured out his furywrath like fire. |
| 2:5 |
The Lord is become as an enemy, he hath swallowed up Israel; heHe hath swallowed up all her palaces, he hath destroyed his strongstrongholds; holds:And and he hath multiplied 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 place of assembly: theJehovah Lord hath caused solemn assembly and sabbath 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 the LordJehovah, as in the day of a solemn assembly. |
| 2:8 |
TheJehovah Lord hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; heHe hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:; butAnd he hath made the rampart and wall to lament; they languish 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 nations where the law is not; yeaYea, her prophets find no vision from the LordJehovah. |
| 2:10 |
The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, they 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 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 unto thee? what 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 visions for thee offalse vanity and foolishnessfoolish visions; andAnd they have not discovereduncovered thine iniquity, to bring againback thy captivity:, butBut have seen for thee burdensfalse oforacles vanity 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 called 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 devisedpurposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; heHe hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: andAnd he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee,; he hath exalted 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 respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease. |
| 2:19 |
Arise, cry out in the night, at 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 at the tophead of every street. |
| 2:20 |
See, O LordJehovah, and behold, to whom thou hast done thus! shallShall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? shallShall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? |
| 2:21 |
The youth 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 slaughtered, and not pitied. |
| 2:22 |
Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side,; andAnd there was none that escaped or remained in the day of theJehovahs LordS anger: thoseThose that I have dandled 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 caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light. |
| 3:7 |
He hath fencedwalled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. |
| 3:8 |
Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my prayer. |
| 3:9 |
He hath fencedwalled up my ways with hewn stone,; he hath made my paths crooked. |
| 3:14 |
I am become a derision to all my people;, and their song all the day. |
| 3:16 |
He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones,; he hath covered me with ashes. |
| 3:18 |
And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from the LordJehovah. |
| 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. |
| 3:24 |
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 hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LordJehovah. |
| 3:29 |
Let him put his mouth in the dust;, if so be there may hebe hope. |
| 3:32 |
For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercieslovingkindnesses. |
| 3:40 |
Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LordJehovah. |
| 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 peoples,. |
| 3:46 |
allAll our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us. |
| 3:48 |
Mine eye runneth down with riversstreams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people. |
| 3:50 |
Till theJehovah Lord look down, and behold from heaven. |
| 3:52 |
They have chased me sore like a bird, they that are mine enemies without cause. |
| 3:54 |
Waters flowed over minemy head; I said, I am cut off. |
| 3:55 |
I called upon thy name, O LordJehovah, out of the lowest dungeon. |
| 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. |
| 3:61 |
Thou hast heard their reproach, O LordJehovah, and all their devices against me;, |
| 3:62 |
The lips of those that rose up against me, and their imaginationdevice against me all the day. |
| 3:64 |
Thou wilt render unto them a recompencerecompense, O LordJehovah, according to the work of their hands. |
| 3:66 |
Thou wilt pursue 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 pure gold changed! theThe stones of the sanctuary are poured out at 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 jackals 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 dung hillsdunghills. |
| 4:6 |
For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, thatThat was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her. |
| 4:7 |
Her nobles 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 furywrath, he hath poured out his fierce anger; andAnd he hath kindled a fire in Zion, which hath devoured the foundations thereof. |
| 4:12 |
The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, thatThat the adversary and the enemy shouldwould 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 midst of her. |
| 4:14 |
They wander as blind men in the streets, thatthey are polluted with blood, soSo that men cannot touch their garments. |
| 4:15 |
Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not:! whenWhen they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn here. |
| 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 |
Our eyes do yet fail in looking for our vain help;: inIn our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save. |
| 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 pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavenheavens: theyThey chased us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. |
| 4:20 |
The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LordJehovah, was taken in their pits; ofOf whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. |
| 4:21 |
Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz: theThe cup 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 Jehovah, what is Lord, come upon us: beholdBehold, and see our reproach. |
| 5:2 |
Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, ourOur houses unto 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 pursuers are upon our necks: weWe are 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 rule over us: thereThere is none to deliver us out of their hand. |
| 5:9 |
We get our bread withat the peril of our lives, becauseBecause of the sword of 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 maidensvirgins in the cities of Judah. |
| 5:12 |
Princes were hanged up by their hand: theThe faces of elders were not honouredhonored. |
| 5:13 |
The young men bare the mill,; andAnd the children stumbled under the wood. |
| 5:14 |
The elders have ceased from the gate, theThe young men from their music. |
| 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! for we have sinned. |
| 5:17 |
For this our heart is faint; forFor these things our eyes are dim; |
| 5:18 |
For the mountain of Zion, which is desolate;: theThe foxes walk upon it. |
| 5:19 |
Thou, O LordJehovah, abidest 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. |