Lamentations

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1:1	How lonely sits the city That wasonce fullhad ofmany people! She has become like a widow Who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces Has become a forced laborer!
1:2	She weeps bitterly in the night, And her tears are on her cheeks; She has noneno one 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 underout of affliction And under harsh servitude; She dwellslives among the nations, But she has not found noa restresting place; All those who pursued her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of distress.
1:4	The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to thean appointed feastsfeast. All her gates are desolatedeserted; Her priests are groaninggroan, Her virgins are afflictedworried, And sheas for Zion herself, it is bitter for her.
1:5	Her adversaries have become her masters, Her enemies prosperare secure; For the Lord has caused her grief Because of the multitude of her transgressionswrongdoings; Her little ones have gone away As captives beforeled by the adversaryenemy.
1:6	All of her majestysplendor HasIs departedgone from the daughter of Zion; Her princesleaders have become like deer That have found no pasture;, And they have fled without strength BeforeFrom the pursuer.
1:7	In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precioustreasures things That were fromhers since the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mockedlaughed at her ruin.
1:8	Jerusalem sinned greatly, Therefore she has become an uncleanobject thingof ridicule. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even she herself groans and turns away.
1:9	Her uncleanness was in her skirtsgarment’s seams; She did not considerthink of her future. ThereforeSo she has fallen astonishinglyin an astonishing way; She has no comforter. “See, O Lord, my affliction, For the enemy has magnifiedhonored 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 You commanded That they shouldwere not to enter into Your congregation.
1:11	All her people groan, seeking bread; They have given their precioustreasures things for food To restore their lives themselves. “See, O Lord, and look, For I am despised.”
1:12	“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain Which was severelyinflicted dealton out to me, WhichWith which the Lord inflictedtormented me on the day of His fierce anger.
1:13	From onthe highheight He sent fire into my bones, And it prevaileddominated 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 transgressionswrongdoings is bound; By His hand they are knitwoven together. They have come upon my neck; He has made my strength fail. The Lord has givenhanded me intoover theTo hands Of those against whom I am not able to stand.
1:15	The Lord has rejectedthrown away all my strong men In my midst; He has called an appointed time against me To crush my young men; The Lord has trodden as in a wine press The virgin daughter of Judah.
1:16	For these things I weep; My eyes run down with water; Because far from me is a comforter, One whoto restoresrestore my soul. My children are desolate Because the enemy has prevailed.”
1:17	Zion stretches out with her hands; There is no one to comfort her; The Lord has commanded concerningregarding Jacob That thethose onesaround round about him shouldbecome be his adversaries; Jerusalem has become ana uncleanfilthy thing among them.
1:18	“The Lord is righteous;, For I have rebelled against His command; Hear now, all peoples, And beholdsee my pain; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.
1:19	I called to my lovers, but they deceiveddeserted me; My priests and my elders perished in the city While they sought food to restore their strength themselves.
1:20	See, O Lord, for I am in distress; My spirit is greatly troubled; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious. In the street the sword slayshas made women childless; In the house it is like death.
1:21	They have heard that I groan; There is no one to comfort me;, All my enemies have heard of my calamitydisaster; They are gladjoyful that You have done it. Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed, ThatSo that they maywill become like me.
1:22	LetMay all their wickedness come before You; And deal with them just as You have dealt with me For all my transgressions;wrongdoings. For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”
2:1	How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger! He has casthurled The glory of Israel from heaven to earth The glory of Israel, And has not remembered His footstool In the day of His anger.
2:2	The Lord has swallowed updestroyed; He has not spared All the habitationssettlements of Jacob. In His wrath He has thrownoverthrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;, He has broughthurled them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princesleaders.
2:3	In fierce anger He has cut off All the strength of Israel; He has drawnpulled back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming roundon aboutall sides.
2:4	He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand is positioned like an adversary, And slainHe allhas killed everything that werewas 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 swallowedengulfed up Israel; He has swallowedengulfed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multipliedcaused great mourning and grieving in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.
2:6	And He has violently treated His tabernacle violently, like a despised garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place. The Lord has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbathSabbath in Zion to be forgotten, And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger.
2:7	The Lord has rejected His altar, He has abandonedrepudiated His sanctuary; He has deliveredhanded intoover the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces to the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord As inon the day of an appointed feast.
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 lamentmourn; They have languished together.
2:9	Her gates have sunk into the ground, He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princesleaders are among the nations; The lawLaw is no moregone. AlsoHer prophets, hertoo, prophets find No vision from the Lord.
2:10	The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground, theyand are silent. They have thrown dust on their heads; They have girdedput themselveson with sackcloth. The virgins of Jerusalem Have bowed their heads to the ground.
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 faintlanguish In the streets of the city.
2:12	They say to their mothers, “Where is grain and wine?” As they faint like a wounded manperson In the streets of the city, As their lifelives isare poured out OnIn their mothers’ bosomarms.
2:13	How shall I admonish you? ToWhat what shall I compare to you, ODaughter daughter of Jerusalem? ToWhat what shall I liken to you as I comfort you, OVirgin virgin daughter of Zion? For your ruincollapse is as vast as the sea; Who can heal you?
2:14	Your prophets have seen for you FalseWorthless and foolishdeceptive visions; And they have not exposed your iniquitywrongdoing So as to restore you from captivity, But they have seen for you falseworthless and misleading oraclespronouncements.
2:15	All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derisionridicule at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem,: “Is this the city of which they said, ‘ThePerfect perfectionin of beauty, A joy to all the earth’?”
2:16	All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, “We have swallowedengulfed her up! SurelyThis thiscertainly is the day for which we waitedawaited; We have reached it, we have seen it.”!”
2:17	The Lord has done what He purposeddetermined; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old. He has throwntorn down without sparing, And He has causedhelped the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the might of your adversaries.
2:18	Their heart cried out to the Lord,: “OYou wall of the daughter of Zion, Let your tears runstream down like a river day and night; Give yourself no relief, Let your eyes have no rest.
2:19	Arise, crywhimper aloud in the night At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord; LiftRaise up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who arelanguish faint because of hunger At the head of every street.”.
2:20	See, O Lord, and look! With whom have You dealt thusthis way? Should women really eat their offspringchildren, The little ones who were born healthy? Should priest and prophet really be slainkilled 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. You have slainput them into death on the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered, notwithout sparing.
2:22	You called as inon the day of an appointed feast My terrors on every side; And there was no one who escapedsurvived or survivedescaped InOn the day of the Lord’s anger. ThoseAs for those whom I borebrought forth healthy and rearedwhom I raised, My enemy annihilated them..”
3:1	I am the man who has seen afflictionmisery Because of the rod of His wrath.
3:3	SurelyIndeed, against me He has turned His hand against me Repeatedly all the day.
3:4	He has causedconsumed my flesh and my skin to waste away, He has broken my bones.
3:5	He has besieged and encompassedsurrounded me with bitterness and hardship.
3:6	In dark places He has made me dwelllive in dark places, Like those who have long been dead.
3:9	He has blocked my ways with hewncut stone; He has madetwisted my paths crooked.
3:11	He has turnedmade aside my ways deviate, and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.
3:12	He bent His bow And settook aim at me as a target for the arrow.
3:13	He made the arrows of His quiver ToEnter enter into my inward parts.
3:14	I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song of ridicule all the day.
3:15	He has filled me with bitterness, He has made me drunkdrink withplenty of wormwood.
3:16	He has brokenalso made my teeth grind with gravel; He has made me cower in the dust.
3:17	My soul has been rejectedexcluded from peace; I have forgotten happiness.
3:18	So I say, “My strength has perishedfailed, And so has my hope from the Lord.”
3:19	Remember my afflictionmisery and my wanderinghomelessness, the wormwood and bitterness.
3:20	SurelyMy my soul certainly remembers, And is bowedbent downover within me.
3:21	This I recall this to my mind, Therefore I have hopewait.
3:22	The Lord’s lovingkindnessesacts of mercy indeed neverdo ceasenot end, For His compassions neverdo not fail.
3:24	“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul, “Therefore I havewait hopefor in Him.”
3:25	The Lord is good to those who waitawait for Him, To the person who seeks Him.
3:27	It is good for a man thatto he should bear The yoke in his youth.
3:28	Let him sit alone and bekeep silentquiet, Since He has laid it on him.
3:29	Let him put his mouth in the dust,; Perhaps there is hope.
3:30	Let him give his cheek to the smiter,one who is going to strike him; Let him be filled with reproachshame.
3:32	For if He causes grief, Then He will have compassion AccordingIn proportion to His abundant lovingkindnessmercy.
3:33	For He does not afflict willingly Or grieve the sons of menmankind.
3:34	To crush under Hisone’s feet All the prisoners of the land,
3:36	To defraud asomeone man in his lawsuit— Of these things the Lord does not approve.
3:38	Is it not from the mouth of the Most High That both goodadversity and illgood go forthproceed?
3:39	WhyOf shouldwhat can any living mortal, or any man, OfferComplain complaint in view of his sins?
3:40	Let’s us examine and probesearch out our ways, And let’s us return to the Lord.
3:41	We liftraise up our heart and hands Toward God in heaven;
3:42	We have transgresseddone wrong and rebelled,; You have not pardoned.
3:44	You have coveredveiled Yourself with a cloud So that no prayer can pass through.
3:45	You have made us mere offscouringrefuse and refuserubbish In the midst of the peoples.
3:47	Panic and pitfall have befallencome upon us, Devastation and destruction;
3:49	My eyes pourflow down unceasingly, Without stopping,
3:52	My enemies without causereason Hunted me down like a bird;
3:53	They have silenced me in the pit And have placedthrown astones stone on me.
3:55	I called on Your name, O Lord, Out of the lowest pit.
3:56	You have heard my voice, “Do not hidecover Your ear from my prayerplea for relief, From my cry for help.”
3:57	You drewcame near whenon the day I called onto You; You said, “Do not fear!”
3:58	O Lord, You have pleaded my soul’s cause; You have redeemed my life.
3:59	O Lord, You have seen my oppression; Judge my case.
3:61	You have heard their reproach, O Lord, All their schemes against me.
3:62	The lips of my assailants and their whisperingtalk Are against me all day long.
3:63	Look onat their sitting and their rising; I am their mocking song.
3:64	You will recompenserepay them, O Lord, AccordingIn toaccordance with the work of their hands.
3:65	You will give them hardnessshamelessness of heart, Your curse will be on them.
3:66	You will pursue them in anger and destroyeliminate them From under the heavens of the Lord!
4:1	How dark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are pouredspilled out At the corner of every street.
4:2	The precious sons of Zion, Weighed against finepure gold, How they are regarded as earthenearthenware jars, The work of a potter’s hands!
4:3	Even jackals offer the breast, They nurse their young; But the daughter of my people has becomeproved herself cruel, Like ostriches in the wilderness.
4:4	The tongue of the infant cleavesclings To the roof of its mouth because of thirst; The littlechildren ones ask for bread, But no one breaks it for them.
4:5	Those who ateused to eat delicacies Are desolatemade to tremble in the streets; Those rearedwho were raised in purplecrimson clothing Embrace ashgarbage pitsheaps.
4:6	For the iniquitywrongdoing of the daughter of my people Is greater than the sin of Sodom, Which was overthrown as in a moment, And no hands were turned toward her.
4:7	Her consecrated ones were purer than snow, They wereshined whitermore than milk; They were more ruddy in body than coralspearls of coral, Their polishingform was like lapis lazuli.
4:8	Their appearance is blackerdarker than soot, They are not recognized in the streets; Their skin is shriveled on their bones, It is withereddry, it has become like wood.
4:9	Better off are those slainkilled withby the sword Than those slainkilled withby hunger; For they pinewaste away, being stricken ForBy the lack of the fruitsproduce of the field.
4:10	The hands of compassionate women Boiled their own children; They became food for them BecauseDue ofto the destruction of the daughter of my people.
4:11	The Lord has accomplishedexpended His wrath, He has poured out His fierce anger; And He has kindled a fire in Zion, WhichAnd it has consumed its foundations.
4:12	The kings of the earth did not believe, Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy CouldWould enter the gates of Jerusalem.
4:13	Because of the sins of her prophets And the iniquitieswrongdoings of her priests, Who have shed in her midst The blood of the righteous;,
4:14	They wandered, blind, in the streets; They were defiled with blood, SoSuch that no one could touch their garments.
4:15	“DepartKeep away! Unclean!” they cried out of themselves. “DepartKeep away, departkeep away, do not touch!” SoFor they fleddistanced andthemselves as well as wandered; MenPeople among the nations said, “They shall not continue to dwellreside with us.”
4:16	The presence of the Lord has scattered them, He will not continue to regardlook at them; They did not honor the priests, They did not favor the elders.
4:17	Yet our eyes failed, Looking for help was useless; InAt our watchingobservation point we have watched For a nation that could not save.
4:20	The breath of our nostrils, the Lord’s anointed, Was captured in their pits, Of whom we had said, “UnderIn his shadow We shall live among the nations.”
4:21	Rejoice and be gladjoyful, O daughter of Edom, Who dwellslives in the land of Uz; But the cup will comepass around to you as well, You will become drunk and makeexpose yourself naked.
4:22	The punishment of your iniquitywrongdoing has been completed, O daughter of Zion; He will no longer exile you no longer. But He will punish your iniquitywrongdoing, O daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins!
5:1	Remember, O Lord, what has befallencome upon us; Look, and see our reproachdisgrace!
5:2	Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, Our houses to aliensforeigners.
5:3	We have become orphans, without a father,; Our mothers are like widows.
5:4	We have to pay for our drinking water, Our wood comes to us at a price.
5:5	Our pursuers are at our necks; We are worn out, therewe isare given no rest for us.
5:7	Our fathers sinned, and are no moregone; It is we who have bornebeen burdened with the punishment for their iniquitieswrongdoings.
5:8	Slaves rule over us; There is no one to deliverrescue us from their hand.
5:10	Our skin has become as hot as an oven, Because of the burningravages heat of faminehunger.
5:11	They ravishedviolated the women in Zion, The virgins in the cities of Judah.
5:12	PrincesLeaders were hung by their hands; Elders were not respected.
5:13	Young men worked at the grinding mill, And youths stumbledstaggered under loads of wood.
5:14	Elders are goneabsent from the gate, Young men from their music.
5:15	The joy of our hearts has ceasedended; Our dancing has been turned into mourning.
5:18	Because of Mount Zion which lies desolate, FoxesJackals prowl in it.
5:19	You, O Lord, rule forever; Your throne is from generation to generation.
5:20	Why dowill You forget us forever? Why do You forsakeabandon us for so long?
5:21	Restore us to You, O Lord, so that we may be restored; Renew our days as of old,