Lamentations:1:1-17
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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 !
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .