Lamentations:1

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* How the city sits solitary , that was full of people ! She has become as a widow , who was great among the nations ! She who was a princess among the provinces has become tributary ! * She weeps bitterly in the night , and her tears are on her cheeks . Among all her loved ones she has none to comfort her . All her friends have dealt treacherously with her , they have become her enemies . * Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction . And because of great servitude she dwells among the nations . She finds no rest . All her persecutors overtook her in the distress . * The ways of Zion mourn , because none come to the solemn assembly . All her gates are desolate . Her priests sigh . Her virgins are afflicted , and she herself is in bitterness . * Her adversaries have become the head . Her enemies prosper . For LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions . Her young sons have gone into captivity before the adversary . * And from the daughter of Zion all her majesty is departed . Her rulers have become like harts that find no pasture . And they have gone without strength before the pursuer . * Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old . When her people fell into the hand of the adversary , and none helped her , the adversaries saw her ; they m * Jerusalem has grievously sinned , therefore she has become as an unclean thing . All who honored her despise her , because they have seen her nakedness . Yea , she sighs , and turns backward . * Her filthiness was in her skirts . She did not think of her latter end . Therefore she has come down astonishingly . She has no comforter . Behold , O LORD , my affliction , for the enemy has magnified himself . * The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things . For she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary , concerning whom thou commanded that they should not enter into thine assembly . * All her people sigh . They seek bread . They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul . See , O LORD , and , behold , for I have become abject . * Is it nothing to you , all ye who pass by ? Behold , and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow , which is brought upon me . Therewith LORD has afflicted in the day of his fierce anger . * From on high he has sent fire into my bones , and it prevails against them . He has spread a net for my feet . He has turned me back . He has made me desolate and faint all the day . * The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand . They are knit together . They have come up upon my neck . He has made my strength to fail . LORD has delivered me into their hands , against whom I am not able to stand . * LORD has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me . He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men . LORD has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a winepress . * For these things I weep . My eye , my eye runs down with water , because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me . My sons are desolate , because the enemy has prevailed . * Zion spreads forth her hands . There is none to comfort her . LORD has commanded concerning Jacob , that those who are round about him should be his adversaries . Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing . * LORD is righteous , for I have rebelled against his commandment . Hear , I pray you , all ye peoples , and behold my sorrow . My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity . * I called for my loved ones , [but ] they deceived me . My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city , while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls . * Behold , O LORD , for I am in distress . My heart is troubled . My heart is turned within me . For I have grievously rebelled . Abroad the sword bereaves ; at home there is as death . * They have heard that I sigh . There is none to comfort me . All my enemies have heard of my trouble . They are glad that thou have done it . Thou will bring the day that thou have proclaimed , and they shall be like me . * Let all their wickedness come before thee , and do to them , as thou have done to me for all my transgressions . For my sighs are many , and my heart is faint .

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