LA-1:1 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!
LA-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.
LA-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 between the
straits.
LA-1:4 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.
LA-1:5 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.
LA-1:6 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.
LA-1:7 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.
LA-1:8 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.
LA-1:9 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].
LA-1:10 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.
LA-1:11 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.
LA-1:12 [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.
LA-1:13 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.
LA-1:14 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.
LA-1:15 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.
LA-1:16 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.
LA-1:17 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.
LA-1:18 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.
LA-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 their meat to relieve their souls.
LA-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.
LA-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 called, and they shall be like unto me.
LA-1:22 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.
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