11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 .
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 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 .
110 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 .
111 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 .
112 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 .
113 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 .
114 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 .
115 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 .
116 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
.
117 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 .
118 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 .
119 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 .
120 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 .
121 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 .
122 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 .
* 21 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 .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 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 .
25 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 .
26 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 .
27 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 .
28 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 .
29 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 .
210 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 .
211 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 .
212 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 .
213 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 .
214 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 .
215 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 .
216 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 .
217 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 .
218 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 .
219 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 .
220 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 .
221 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 .
222 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 .
* 31 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his
wrath .
32 He hath led me and brought me into darkness but not into
light .
33 Surely against me is he turned he turneth his hand against
me all the day .
34 My flesh and my skin hath he made old he hath broken my
bones .
35 He hath builded against me and compassed me with gall and
travail .
36 He hath set me in dark places as they that be dead of old .
37 He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out he hath made
my chain heavy .
38 Also when I cry and shout he shutteth out my prayer .
39 He hath enclosed my ways with hewn stone he hath made my
paths crooked .
310 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait and as a lion in
secret places .
311 He hath turned aside my ways and pulled me in pieces he
hath made me desolate .
312 He hath bent his bow and set me as a mark for the arrow .
313 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my
reins .
314 I was a derision to all my people and their song all the
day .
315 He hath filled me with bitterness he hath made me drunken
with wormwood .
316 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones he hath
covered me with ashes .
317 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace I forgat
prosperity .
318 And I said My strength and my hope is perished from the
LORD .
319 Remembering mine affliction and my misery the wormwood and
the gall .
320 My soul hath them still in remembrance and is humbled in
me .
321 This I recall to my mind therefore have I hope .
322 It is of the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed
because his compassions fail not .
323 They are new every morning great is thy faithfulness .
324 The LORD is my portion saith my soul therefore will I hope
in him .
325 The LORD is good unto them that wait for him to the soul
that seeketh him .
326 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait
for the salvation of the LORD .
327 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth .
328 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence because he hath borne
it upon him .
329 He putteth his mouth in the dust if so be there may be
hope .
330 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him he is filled
full with reproach .
331 For the Lord will not cast off for ever .
332 But though he cause grief yet will he have compassion
according to the multitude of his mercies .
333 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children
of men .
334 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth .
335 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the
most High .
336 To subvert a man in his cause the Lord approveth not .
337 Who is he that saith and it cometh to pass when the Lord
commandeth it not .
338 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and
good .
339 Wherefore doth a living man complain a man for the
punishment of his sins .
340 Let us search and try our ways and turn again to the LORD .
341 Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the
heavens .
342 We have transgressed and have rebelled thou hast not
pardoned .
343 Thou hast covered with anger and persecuted us thou hast
slain thou hast not pitied .
344 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud that our prayer
should not pass through .
345 Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the
midst of the people .
346 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us .
347 Fear and a snare is come upon us desolation and
destruction .
348 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the
destruction of the daughter of my people .
349 Mine eye trickleth down and ceaseth not without any
intermission .
350 Till the LORD look down and behold from heaven .
351 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters
of my city .
352 Mine enemies chased me sore like a bird without cause .
353 They have cut off my life in the dungeon and cast a stone
upon me .
354 Waters flowed over mine head then I said I am cut off .
355 I called upon thy name O LORD out of the low dungeon .
356 Thou hast heard my voice hide not thine ear at my
breathing at my cry .
357 Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee thou
saidst Fear not .
358 O Lord thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul thou hast
redeemed my life .
359 O LORD thou hast seen my wrong judge thou my cause .
360 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their
imaginations against me .
361 Thou hast heard their reproach O LORD and all their
imaginations against me .
362 The lips of those that rose up against me and their device
against me all the day .
363 Behold their sitting down and their rising up I am their
music .
364 Render unto them a recompense O LORD according to the work
of their hands .
365 Give them sorrow of heart thy curse unto them .
366 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens
of the LORD .
* 41 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 .
42 The precious sons of Zion comparable to fine gold how are
they esteemed as earthen pitchers the work of the hands of the
potter .
43 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 .
44 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 .
45 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets
they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills .
46 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 .
47 Her Nazarites were purer than snow they were whiter than
milk they were more ruddy in body than rubies their polishing
was of sapphire .
48 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 .
49 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 .
410 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own
children they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter
of my people .
411 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 .
412 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 .
413 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
.
414 They have wandered as blind men in the streets they have
polluted themselves with blood so that men could not touch their
garments .
415 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 .
416 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 .
417 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 .
418 They hunt our steps that we cannot go in our streets our
end is near our days are fulfilled for our end is come .
419 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven
they pursued us upon the mountains they laid wait for us in the
wilderness .
420 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 .
421 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 .
422 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 .
* 51 Remember O LORD what is come upon us consider and behold
our reproach .
52 Our inheritance is turned to strangers our houses to aliens
.
53 We are orphans and fatherless our mothers are as widows .
54 We have drunken our water for money our wood is sold unto
us .
55 Our necks are under persecution we labour and have no rest .
56 We have given the hand to the Egyptians and to the
Assyrians to be satisfied with bread .
57 Our fathers have sinned and are not and we have borne their
iniquities .
58 Servants have ruled over us there is none that doth deliver
us out of their hand .
59 We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the
sword of the wilderness .
510 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible
famine .
511 They ravished the women in Zion and the maids in the
cities of Judah .
512 Princes are hanged up by their hand the faces of elders
were not honoured .
513 They took the young men to grind and the children fell
under the wood .
514 The elders have ceased from the gate the young men from
their music .
515 The joy of our heart is ceased our dance is turned into
mourning .
516 The crown is fallen from our head woe unto us that we have
sinned .
517 For this our heart is faint for these things our eyes are
dim .
518 Because of the mountain of Zion which is desolate the
foxes walk upon it .
519 Thou O LORD remainest for ever thy throne from generation
to generation .
520 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever and forsake us so
long time .
521 Turn thou us unto thee O LORD and we shall be turned renew
our days as of old .
522 But thou hast utterly rejected us thou art very wroth
against us .
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