Lamentations 1
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1 ALEPH. O how a city once filled with people now sits alone! The Governess of the Gentiles has become like a widow. The Prince of the provinces has been placed under tribute.
2 BETH. Weeping, she has wept through the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. There is no one to be a comfort to her and to all her beloved. All her friends have spurned her, and they have become her enemies.
3 GHIMEL. Judah has migrated because of affliction and great servitude. She has lived among the nations and not found rest. All of her persecutors have apprehended her, amid torments.
4 DALETH. The pathways of Zion mourn, because there are none who approach for the solemnity. All her gates are destroyed. Her priests groan. Her virgins are filthy. And she is overwhelmed with bitterness.
5 HE. Her enemies have been made her leaders; her adversaries have been enriched. For the Lord has spoken against her, because of the multitude of her iniquities. Her little ones have been led into captivity before the face of the tribulator.
6 VAU. And all her elegance has departed, from the daughter of Zion. Her leaders have become like rams that cannot find pasture, and they have gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.
7 ZAIN. Jerusalem has remembered the days of her affliction and the betrayal of all her desirable ones, whom she held from the days of antiquity, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and there was no one to be a helper. The enemies have looked upon her and mocked her Sabbaths.
8 HETH. Jerusalem has sinned a grievous sin. Because of this, she has become unstable. All who glorified her have spurned her, because they have looked upon her disgrace. Then she groaned and turned away again.
9 TETH. Her filth is on her feet, and her end has not been remembered. She has been vehemently put down, having no consolation. O Lord, look upon my affliction, for the adversary has been lifted up.
10 JOD. The enemy has sent his hand against all her desirable ones. For she has watched the Gentiles enter her sanctuary, even though you instructed that they should not enter into your church.
11 CAPH. All her people are groaning and seeking bread. They have given up whatever was precious in exchange for food, so as to remain alive. See, O Lord, and consider, for I have become vile.
12 LAMED. O all you who pass by the way, attend, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow. For he has made me a vintage, just as the Lord has spoken in the day of his furious anger.
13 MEM. From on high, he has sent fire into my bones, and he has educated me. He has spread a net for my feet; he has turned me back. He has placed me in desolation, consumed by grief, all day long.
14 NUN. Vigilant is the yoke of my iniquities. They have been folded together in his hand and imposed on my neck. My virtue has been weakened. The Lord has given me into a hand, out of which I am not able to rise.
15 SAMECH. The Lord has taken away all of my great ones from my midst. He has called forth time against me, so as to crush my elect ones. The Lord has trampled the winepress, which was for the virgin daughter of Judah.
16 AIN. For this I weep, and my eyes bring forth water. For the consoler has been far away from me, changing my soul. My sons have become lost, because the enemy has prevailed.
17 PHE. Zion has reached out her hands; there is no one to console her. The Lord has given orders against Jacob; his enemies are all around him. Jerusalem among them is like a woman made unclean by menstruation.
18 SADE. The Lord is just, for it is I who has provoked his mouth to wrath. I beg all people to listen and to see my sorrow. My virgins and my youths have gone into captivity.
19 COPH. I called for my friends, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders have been consumed in the city. For they were seeking their food, so as to revive their life.
20 RES. See, O Lord, that I am in tribulation. My bowels have been disturbed, my heart has been subverted within me, for I am filled with bitterness. Outside, the sword puts to death, and at home there is a similar death.
21 SIN. They have heard that I groan and that there is no one to console me. All my enemies have heard of my misfortune; they have rejoiced that you caused it. You have brought in a day of consolation, and so they shall become like me.
22 THAU. Let all their evil enter before you. And make vintage of them, just as you made vintage of me, because of all my iniquities. For my sighs are many, and my heart is grieving.
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Lamentations 1
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Jerusalem in Affliction
1How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
#Is. 47:7–9How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The #1 Kin. 4:21; Ezra 4:20; Jer. 31:7princess among the provinces
Has become a slave!
2She #Jer. 13:17weeps bitterly in the #Job 7:3night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.
3#Jer. 52:27Judah has gone into captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
#Lam. 2:9She dwells among the nations,
She finds no #Deut. 28:65rest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.
4The roads to Zion mourn
Because no one comes to the set feasts.
All her gates are #Is. 27:10desolate;
Her priests sigh,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she is in bitterness.
5Her adversaries #Deut. 28:43have become the master,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has afflicted her
#Jer. 30:14, 15; Dan. 9:7, 16Because of the multitude of her transgressions.
Her #Jer. 52:28children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
6And from the daughter of Zion
All her splendor has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
That find no pasture,
That flee without strength
Before the pursuer.
7In the days of her affliction and roaming,
Jerusalem #Ps. 137:1remembers all her pleasant things
That she had in the days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
With no one to help her,
The adversaries saw her
And mocked at her downfall.
8#(1 Kin. 8:46)Jerusalem has sinned gravely,
Therefore she has become vile.
All who honored her despise her
Because #Jer. 13:22; Ezek. 16:37; Hos. 2:10they have seen her nakedness;
Yes, she sighs and turns away.
9Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
She #Deut. 32:29; Is. 47:7; Jer. 5:31did not consider her destiny;
Therefore her collapse was awesome;
She had no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
For the enemy is exalted!”
10The adversary has spread his hand
Over all her pleasant things;
For she has seen #Ps. 74:4–8; Is. 64:10, 11; Jer. 51:51the nations enter her sanctuary,
Those whom You commanded
#Deut. 23:3; Neh. 13:1Not to enter Your assembly.
11All her people sigh,
#Jer. 38:9; 52:6They seek bread;
They have given their valuables for food to restore life.
“See, O Lord, and consider,
For I am scorned.”
12“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Behold and see
#Dan. 9:12If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me,
Which the Lord has inflicted
In the day of His fierce anger.
13“From above He has sent fire into my bones,
And it overpowered them;
He has #Ezek. 12:13; 17:20spread a net for my feet
And turned me back;
He has made me desolate
And faint all the day.
14“The#Deut. 28:48 yoke of my transgressions was bound;
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.
He made my strength fail;
The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.
15“The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
To crush my young men;
#Is. 63:3; (Rev. 14:19)The Lord trampled as in a winepress
The virgin daughter of Judah.
16“For these things I weep;
My eye, #Ps. 69:20; Eccl. 4:1; Jer. 13:17; Lam. 2:18my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”
17#(Is. 1:15); Jer. 4:31Zion spreads out her hands,
But no one comforts her;
The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob
That those #2 Kin. 24:2–4; Jer. 12:9around him become his adversaries;
Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
18“The Lord is #Neh. 9:33; Ps. 119:75; Dan. 9:7, 14righteous,
For I #1 Sam. 12:14, 15; Jer. 4:17rebelled against His commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.
19“I called for my lovers,
But they deceived me;
My priests and my elders
Breathed their last in the city,
While they sought food
To restore their life.
20“See, O Lord, that I am in distress;
My #Job 30:27; Is. 16:11; Jer. 4:19; Lam. 2:11; Hos. 11:8soul is troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
#Deut. 32:25; Ezek. 7:15Outside the sword bereaves,
At home it is like death.
21“They have heard that I sigh,
But no one comforts me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are #Ps. 35:15; Jer. 48:27; 50:11; Lam. 2:15; Obad. 12glad that You have done it.
Bring on #Is. 13; (Jer. 46)the day You have announced,
That they may become like me.
22“Let#Neh. 4:4, 5; Ps. 109:15; 137:7, 8; Jer. 30:16 all their wickedness come before You,
And do to them as You have done to me
For all my transgressions;
For my sighs are many,
And my heart is faint.”
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