‏ Lamentations 1

The Sorrows of Zion


1 How alonely sits the city
That once had bmany people!
She has become like a cwidow
Who was once dgreat among the nations!
She who was a princess among the
Or districts
provinces
Has become a fforced laborer!

2 She gweeps bitterly in the night,
And her tears are on her cheeks;
She has no one to comfort her
Among all her hlovers.
All her friends have idealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

3 jJudah has gone into exile out of affliction
And
Lit great
harsh servitude;
She lives lamong the nations,
But she has not found a resting place;
All those who mpursued her have overtaken her
In the midst of
Or narrow places
distress.

4 The roads
Or to
of Zion are in mourning
Because pno one comes to an appointed feast.
All her gates are qdeserted;
Her priests groan,
Her rvirgins are worried,
And as for Zion herself, it is sbitter for her.

5 Her adversaries have become
Lit head
her masters,
Her enemies are
Or at ease
secure;
For the Lord has
Or tormented her
wcaused her grief
Because of the multitude of her wrongdoings;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives
Lit before
led by the enemy.

6 All of her ysplendor
Is gone from the daughter of Zion;
Her leaders have become like deer
That have found no pasture,
And they have
Lit gone
aafled without strength
Lit Before
From the pursuer.

7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness
acJerusalem remembers all her treasures
That were hers since the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And adno one helped her.
The adversaries saw her,
They aelaughed at her
Lit cessation
ruin.

8 Jerusalem sinned aggreatly,
Therefore ahshe has become an
Or abomination
object of ridicule.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even ajshe herself groans and turns away.

9 Her akuncleanness was in her garment’s seams;
She
Or remember her final end
did not think of her amfuture.
So she has
Lit gone down
aofallen in an astonishing way;
apShe has no comforter.
aqSee, Lord, my affliction,
For the enemy has
Or boasted
ashonored himself!”

10 The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her precious things,
For she has seen the atnations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they were aunot to enter Your congregation.

11 All her people groan, avseeking bread;
They have given their treasures for food
To awrestore their
Lit soul
lives.
See, Lord, and look,
For I am aydespised.”

12Is it aznothing to all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any pain like my pain
Which was inflicted on me,
With which the baLord tormented me on the day of His bbfierce anger.

13 “From
I.e., heaven
the height He sent fire into my bdbones,
And it dominated them.
He has spread a benet for my feet;
He has turned me back;
He has made me bfdesolate,
Or Sick
Faint all day long.

14 “The bhyoke of my wrongdoings is bound;
By His hand they are woven together.
They have bicome upon my neck;
He has made my strength
Lit falter
fail.
The Lord bkhas handed me over
To those against whom I am not able to stand.

15 “The blLord has thrown away all my strong men
In my midst;
He has called an appointed
Another reading is feast
time against me
To crush my bnyoung men;
The Lord has botrodden as in a wine press
The virgin daughter of Judah.

16 “For these things I bpweep;
Lit My eye, my eye
My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a brcomforter,
One to restore my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”

17 Zion bsstretches out with her hands;
There is no one to comfort her;
The Lord has btcommanded regarding Jacob
That those around him become his adversaries;
buJerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

18 “The Lord is bvrighteous,
For I have bwrebelled against His
Lit mouth
command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And bysee my pain;
bzMy virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

19 “I cacalled to my lovers, but they deserted me;
My cbpriests and my elders perished in the city
While they sought food to ccrestore their
Lit soul
strength themselves.

20 “See, Lord, for I am in distress;
My
Lit inward parts are in ferment
cfspirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very cgrebellious.
In the street the sword has made women childless;
In the house it is like death.

21 “They have heard that I chgroan;
There is no one to comfort me,
All my enemies have heard of my disaster;
They are cijoyful that You have done it.
Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed,
So that they will become cjlike me.

22 “May all their wickedness come before You;
And ckdeal with them just as You have dealt with me
For all my wrongdoings.
For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”
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