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Lamentations of Jeremias
chapter 1
1
Aleph.
How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is the mistress of
the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes of provinces made tributary!
2 Beth. Weeping she hath wept in the night, and her
tears are on her cheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were
dear to her: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies.
3 Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place because
of her affliction, and the greatness of her bondage: she hath dwelt among the
nations, and she hath found no rest: all her persecutors have taken her in the
midst of straits.
4 Daleth. The ways of Sion
mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are
broken down: her priests sigh: her virgins are in affliction, and she is
oppressed with bitterness.
5 He. Her adversaries are become her lords, her enemies
are enriched: because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of her
iniquities: her children are led into captivity: before the face of the
oppressor.
6 Vau. And from the daughter of Sion all her beauty is
departed: her princes are become like rams that find no pastures: and they are
gone away without strength before the face of the pursuer.
7 Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her
affliction, and prevarication of all her desirable things which she had from
the days of old, when her people fell in the enemy's hand, and there was no
helper: the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.
8 Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is
she become unstable: all that honoured her have despised her, because they have
seen her shame: but she sighed and turned backward.
9 Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not
remembered her end: she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter:
behold, O Lord, my affliction, because the enemy is lifted up.
10 Jod. The enemy hath put out his hand to all her
desirable things: for she hath seen the Gentiles enter into her sanctuary, of
whom thou gavest commandment that they should not enter into thy church.
11 Caph. All her people sigh, they seek bread: they
have given all their precious things for food to relieve the soul: see, O Lord,
and consider, for I am become vile.
12 Lamed. O all ye that pass by the way, attend, and see
if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow: for he hath made a vintage of me, as
the Lord spoke in the day of his fierce anger.
13 Mem. From above he hath sent fire into my bones, and
hath chastised me: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he
hath made me desolate, wasted with sorrow all the day long.
14 Nun. The yoke of my iniquities hath watched: they
are folded together in his hand, and put upon my neck: my strength is weakened:
the Lord hath delivered me into a hand out of which I am not able to rise.
15 Samech. The Lord hath taken away all my mighty men
out of the midst of me: he hath called against me the time, to destroy my
chosen men: the Lord hath trodden the winepress for the virgin daughter of
Juda.
16 Ain. Therefore do I weep, and my eyes run down with
water: because the comforter, the relief of my soul, is far from me: my
children are desolate because the enemy hath prevailed.
17 Phe. Sion hath spread forth her hands, there is none
to comfort her: the Lord hath commanded against Jacob, his enemies are round
about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
18 Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his
mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins,
and my young men are gone into captivity.
19 Coph. I called for my friends, but they deceived me:
my priests and my ancients pined away in the city: while they sought their
food, to relieve their souls.
20 Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels
are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad
the sword destroyeth, and at home there is death alike.
21 Sin. They have heard that I sigh, and there is none
to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my evil, they have rejoiced that
thou hast done it: thou hast brought a day of consolation, and they shall be
like unto me.
22 Thau. Let all their evil be present before thee: and
make vintage of them, as thou hast made vintage of me for all my iniquities:
for my sighs are many, and my heart is sorrowful.
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