LAM 01:01 How doth the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary!

LAM 01:02 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.

LAM 01:03 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 between the straits.

LAM 01:04 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.

LAM 01:05 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

LAM 01:06 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

LAM 01:07 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, [and] did mock at her sabbaths.

LAM 01:08 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

LAM 01:09 Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified [himself].

LAM 01:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.

LAM 01:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.

LAM 01:12 [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

LAM 01:13 From above 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.

LAM 01:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up.

LAM 01:15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in a winepress.

LAM 01:16 For these [things] I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

LAM 01:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

LAM 01:18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

LAM 01:19 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.

LAM 01:20 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.

LAM 01:21 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 called, and they shall be like unto me.

LAM 01:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.

LAM 02:01 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

LAM 02:02 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 polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

LAM 02:03 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 burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth round about.

LAM 02:04 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.

LAM 02:05 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

LAM 02:06 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

LAM 02:07 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 feast.

LAM 02:08 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

LAM 02:09 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes [are] among the Gentiles: the law [is] no [more]; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

LAM 02:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] 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.

LAM 02:11 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 children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

LAM 02:12 They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

LAM 02:13 What thing shall I take to 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?

LAM 02:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

LAM 02:15 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] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

LAM 02:16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth 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].

LAM 02:17 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 [thine] enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.

LAM 02:18 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 rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

LAM 02:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in 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 in the top of every street.

LAM 02:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

LAM 02:21 The young and the old 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 killed, [and] not pitied.

LAM 02:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

LAM 03:01 I [am] the man [that] hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

LAM 03:02 He hath led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.

LAM 03:03 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.

LAM 03:04 My flesh and my skin hath he made old: he hath broken my bones.

LAM 03:05 He hath builded against me, and compassed [me] with gall and travail.

LAM 03:06 He hath set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.

LAM 03:07 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.

LAM 03:08 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.

LAM 03:09 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.

LAM 03:10 He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.

LAM 03:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.

LAM 03:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

LAM 03:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.

LAM 03:14 I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.

LAM 03:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.

LAM 03:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.

LAM 03:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.

LAM 03:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

LAM 03:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

LAM 03:20 My soul hath [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

LAM 03:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

LAM 03:22 [It is of] the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.

LAM 03:23 [They are] new every morning: great [is] thy faithfulness.

LAM 03:24 The LORD [is] my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

LAM 03:25 The LORD [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeketh him.

LAM 03:26 [It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.

LAM 03:27 [It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

LAM 03:28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne [it] upon him.

LAM 03:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

LAM 03:30 He giveth [his] cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.

LAM 03:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:

LAM 03:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

LAM 03:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.

LAM 03:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

LAM 03:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

LAM 03:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.

LAM 03:37 Who [is] he [that] saith, and it cometh to pass, [when] the Lord commandeth [it] not?

LAM 03:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

LAM 03:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

LAM 03:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.

LAM 03:41 Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God in the heavens.

LAM 03:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

LAM 03:43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.

LAM 03:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.

LAM 03:45 Thou hast made us [as] the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

LAM 03:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

LAM 03:47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.

LAM 03:48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

LAM 03:49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,

LAM 03:50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

LAM 03:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.

LAM 03:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.

LAM 03:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

LAM 03:54 Waters flowed over mine head; [then] I said, I am cut off.

LAM 03:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

LAM 03:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

LAM 03:57 Thou drewest near in the day [that] I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.

LAM 03:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

LAM 03:59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.

LAM 03:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.

LAM 03:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, [and] all their imaginations against me;

LAM 03:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

LAM 03:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music.

LAM 03:64 Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

LAM 03:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.

LAM 03:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

LAM 04:01 How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.

LAM 04:02 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

LAM 04:03 Even the sea 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.

LAM 04:04 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaketh [it] unto them.

LAM 04:05 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

LAM 04:06 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 stayed on her.

LAM 04:07 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of sapphire:

LAM 04:08 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

LAM 04:09 [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.

LAM 04:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

LAM 04:11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

LAM 04:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.

LAM 04:13 For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,

LAM 04:14 They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.

LAM 04:15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there].

LAM 04:16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.

LAM 04:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].

LAM 04:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.

LAM 04:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

LAM 04:20 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 heathen.

LAM 04:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.

LAM 04:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.

LAM 05:01 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

LAM 05:02 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

LAM 05:03 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.

LAM 05:04 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.

LAM 05:05 Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.

LAM 05:06 We have given the hand [to] the Egyptians, [and to] the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

LAM 05:07 Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.

LAM 05:08 Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that doth deliver [us] out of their hand.

LAM 05:09 We gat our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.

LAM 05:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

LAM 05:11 They ravished the women in Zion, [and] the maids in the cities of Judah.

LAM 05:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.

LAM 05:13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

LAM 05:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

LAM 05:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

LAM 05:16 The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

LAM 05:17 For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.

LAM 05:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.

LAM 05:19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.

LAM 05:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, [and] forsake us so long time?

LAM 05:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.

LAM 05:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.












































































 
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