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Lamentations 5:11 (NIV)
Women have been violated in Zion, and virgins in the towns of Judah.
Lamentations 5:12 (NIV)
Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders are shown no respect.
Lamentations 5:13 (NIV)
Young men toil at the millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood.
Lamentations 5:14 (NIV)
The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.
Lamentations 5:15 (NIV)
Joy is gone from our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
Lamentations 5:16 (NIV)
The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!
Lamentations 5:17 (NIV)
Because of this our hearts are faint, because of these things our eyes grow dim
Lamentations 5:18 (NIV)
for Mount Zion, which lies desolate, with jackals prowling over it.
Lamentations 5:19 (NIV)
You, Lord , reign forever; your throne endures from generation to generation.
Lamentations 5:20 (NIV)
Why do you always forget us? Why do you forsake us so long?
Lamentations 5:21 (NIV)
Restore us to yourself, Lord , that we may return; renew our days as of old
Lamentations 5:22 (NIV)
unless you have utterly rejected us and are angry with us beyond measure.
Lamentations 1:1 (NIV)
How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.
Lamentations 1:2 (NIV)
Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.
Lamentations 1:4 (NIV)
The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.
Lamentations 1:5 (NIV)
Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The Lord has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.
Lamentations 1:6 (NIV)
All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.
Lamentations 1:7 (NIV)
In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.
Lamentations 1:8 (NIV)
Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.
Lamentations 1:9 (NIV)
Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. “Look, Lord , on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed.”
Lamentations 1:10 (NIV)
The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.
Lamentations 1:11 (NIV)
All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, Lord , and consider, for I am despised.”
Lamentations 1:12 (NIV)
“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the Lord brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?
Lamentations 1:13 (NIV)
“From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.
Lamentations 1:14 (NIV)
“My sins have been bound into a yoke ; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.