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king james study
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.
LA-2:1 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!
LA-2:2 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.
LA-2:3 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.
LA-2:4 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.
LA-2:5 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.
LA-2:6 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.
LA-2:7 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.
LA-2:8 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.
LA-2:9 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.
LA-2:10 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.
LA-2:11 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.
LA-2:12 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.
LA-2:13 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?
LA-2:14 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.
LA-2:15 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?
LA-2:16 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].
LA-2:17 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
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