Lamentations:1-5
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 !
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 ?
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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 .
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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 up the horn of thine adversaries .
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Their heart cried unto the Lord ,
O wall of the daughter of Zion ,
let tears run down like a river day and night :
give thyself no rest ;
let not the apple of thine eye cease .
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Arise ,
cry out in the night :
in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord :
lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children ,
that faint for hunger in the top of every street .
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Behold ,
O LORD ,
and consider to whom thou hast done this .
Shall the women eat their fruit ,
and children of a span long ?
shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord ?
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The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets :
my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword ;
thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger ;
thou hast killed ,
and not pitied .
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Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about ,
so that in the day of the LORD '
S anger none escaped nor remained :
those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed .
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I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath .
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He hath led me ,
and brought me into darkness ,
but not into light .
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Surely against me is he turned ;
he turneth his hand against me all the day .
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My flesh and my skin hath he made old ;
he hath broken my bones .
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He hath builded against me ,
and compassed me with gall and travail .
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He hath set me in dark places ,
as they that be dead of old .
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He hath hedged me about ,
that I cannot get out :
he hath made my chain heavy .
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Also when I cry and shout ,
he shutteth out my prayer .
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He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone ,
he hath made my paths crooked .
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He was unto me as a bear lying in wait ,
and as a lion in secret places .
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He hath turned aside my ways ,
and pulled me in pieces :
he hath made me desolate .
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He hath bent his bow ,
and set me as a mark for the arrow .
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He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins .
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I was a derision to all my people ;
and their song all the day .
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He hath filled me with bitterness ,
he hath made me drunken with wormwood .
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He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones ,
he hath covered me with ashes .
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And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace :
I forgat prosperity .
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And I said ,
My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD :
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Remembering mine affliction and my misery ,
the wormwood and the gall .
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My soul hath them still in remembrance ,
and is humbled in me .
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This I recall to my mind ,
therefore have I hope .
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It is of the LORD '
S mercies that we are not consumed ,
because his compassions fail not .
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They are new every morning :
great is thy faithfulness .
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The LORD is my portion ,
saith my soul ;
therefore will I hope in him .
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The LORD is good unto them that wait for him ,
to the soul that seeketh him .
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It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD .
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It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth .
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He sitteth alone and keepeth silence ,
because he hath borne it upon him .
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He putteth his mouth in the dust ;
if so be there may be hope .
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He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him :
he is filled full with reproach .
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For the Lord will not cast off for ever :
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But though he cause grief ,
yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies .
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For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men .
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To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth ,
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To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High ,
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To subvert a man in his cause ,
the Lord approveth not .
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Who is he that saith ,
and it cometh to pass ,
when the Lord commandeth it not ?
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Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good ?
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Wherefore doth a living man complain ,
a man for the punishment of his sins ?
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Let us search and try our ways ,
and turn again to the LORD .
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Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the heavens .
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We have transgressed and have rebelled :
thou hast not pardoned .
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Thou hast covered with anger ,
and persecuted us :
thou hast slain ,
thou hast not pitied .
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Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud ,
that our prayer should not pass through .
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Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people .
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All our enemies have opened their mouths against us .
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Fear and a snare is come upon us ,
desolation and destruction .
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Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people .
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Mine eye trickleth down ,
and ceaseth not ,
without any intermission ,
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Till the LORD look down ,
and behold from heaven .
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Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city .
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Mine enemies chased me sore ,
like a bird ,
without cause .
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They have cut off my life in the dungeon ,
and cast a stone upon me .
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Waters flowed over mine head ;
then I said ,
I am cut off .
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I called upon thy name ,
O LORD ,
out of the low dungeon .
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Thou hast heard my voice :
hide not thine ear at my breathing ,
at my cry .
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Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee :
thou saidst ,
Fear not .
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O Lord ,
thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul ;
thou hast redeemed my life .
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O LORD ,
thou hast seen my wrong :
judge thou my cause .
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Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me .
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Thou hast heard their reproach ,
O LORD ,
and all their imaginations against me ;
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The lips of those that rose up against me ,
and their device against me all the day .
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Behold their sitting down ,
and their rising up ;
I am their musick .
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Render unto them a recompence ,
O LORD ,
according to the work of their hands .
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Give them sorrow of heart ,
thy curse unto them .
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Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD .
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How is the gold become dim !
how is the most fine gold changed !
the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street .
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The precious sons of Zion ,
comparable to fine gold ,
how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers ,
the work of the hands of the potter !
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Even the sea monsters draw out the breast ,
they give suck to their young ones :
the daughter of my people is become cruel ,
like the ostriches in the wilderness .
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The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst :
the young children ask bread ,
and no man breaketh it unto them .
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They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets :
they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills .
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For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom ,
that was overthrown as in a moment ,
and no hands stayed on her .
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Her Nazarites were purer than snow ,
they were whiter than milk ,
they were more ruddy in body than rubies ,
their polishing was of sapphire :
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Their visage is blacker than a coal ;
they are not known in the streets :
their skin cleaveth to their bones ;
it is withered ,
it is become like a stick .
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They that be slain with the sword are better than they that be slain with hunger :
for these pine away ,
stricken through for want of the fruits of the field .
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The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children :
they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people .
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The LORD hath accomplished his fury ;
he hath poured out his fierce anger ,
and hath kindled a fire in Zion ,
and it hath devoured the foundations thereof .
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The kings of the earth ,
and all the inhabitants of the world ,
would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem .
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For the sins of her prophets ,
and the iniquities of her priests ,
that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her ,
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They have wandered as blind men in the streets ,
they have polluted themselves with blood ,
so that men could not touch their garments .
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They cried unto them ,
Depart ye ;
it is unclean ;
depart ,
depart ,
touch not :
when they fled away and wandered ,
they said among the heathen ,
They shall no more sojourn there .
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The anger of the LORD hath divided them ;
he will no more regard them :
they respected not the persons of the priests ,
they favoured not the elders .
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As for us ,
our eyes as yet failed for our vain help :
in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us .
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They hunt our steps ,
that we cannot go in our streets :
our end is near ,
our days are fulfilled ;
for our end is come .
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Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven :
they pursued us upon the mountains ,
they laid wait for us in the wilderness .
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The breath of our nostrils ,
the anointed of the LORD ,
was taken in their pits ,
of whom we said ,
Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen .
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Rejoice and be glad ,
O daughter of Edom ,
that dwellest in the land of Uz ;
the cup also shall pass through unto thee :
thou shalt be drunken ,
and shalt make thyself naked .
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The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished ,
O daughter of Zion ;
he will no more carry thee away into captivity :
he will visit thine iniquity ,
O daughter of Edom ;
he will discover thy sins .
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Remember ,
O LORD ,
what is come upon us :
consider ,
and behold our reproach .
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Our inheritance is turned to strangers ,
our houses to aliens .
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We are orphans and fatherless ,
our mothers are as widows .
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We have drunken our water for money ;
our wood is sold unto us .
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Our necks are under persecution :
we labour ,
and have no rest .
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We have given the hand to the Egyptians ,
and to the Assyrians ,
to be satisfied with bread .
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Our fathers have sinned ,
and are not ;
and we have borne their iniquities .
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Servants have ruled over us :
there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand .
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We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the sword of the wilderness .
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Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine .
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They ravished the women in Zion ,
and the maids in the cities of Judah .
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Princes are hanged up by their hand :
the faces of elders were not honoured .
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They took the young men to grind ,
and the children fell under the wood .
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The elders have ceased from the gate ,
the young men from their musick .
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The joy of our heart is ceased ;
our dance is turned into mourning .
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The crown is fallen from our head :
woe unto us ,
that we have sinned !
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For this our heart is faint ;
for these things our eyes are dim .
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Because of the mountain of Zion ,
which is desolate ,
the foxes walk upon it .
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Thou ,
O LORD ,
remainest for ever ;
thy throne from generation to generation .
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Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever ,
and forsake us so long time ?
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Turn thou us unto thee ,
O LORD ,
and we shall be turned ;
renew our days as of old .
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But thou hast utterly rejected us ;
thou art very wroth against us .
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