1:1 How doth the bitterness. city sit 1:5 Her solitary, [that adversaries are was] full of the chief, her people! [how] is enemies prosper; she become as a for the LORD hath widow! she [that afflicted her for was] great among the multitude of the nations, her [and] princess transgressions: among the her children are provinces, [how] gone into is she become captivity before tributary! the enemy. 1:2 She weepeth 1:6 And from the sore in the daughter of Zion night, and her all her beauty is tears [are] on departed: her her cheeks: among princes are all her lovers become like harts she hath none to [that] find no comfort [her]: pasture, and they all her friends are gone without have dealt strength before treacherously the pursuer. with her, they 1:7 Jerusalem are become her remembered in the enemies. days of her 1:3 Judah is affliction and of gone into her miseries all captivity because her pleasant of affliction, things that she and because of had in the days great servitude: of old, when her she dwelleth people fell into among the the hand of the heathen, she enemy, and none findeth no rest: did help her: the all her adversaries saw persecutors her, [and] did overtook her mock at her between the sabbaths. straits. 1:8 Jerusalem 1:4 The ways of hath grievously Zion do mourn, sinned; therefore because none come she is removed: to the solemn all that honoured feasts: all her her despise her, gates are because they have desolate: her seen her priests sigh, her nakedness: yea, virgins are she sigheth, and afflicted, and turneth backward. she [is] in 1:9 Her hath he sent fire filthiness [is] into my bones, in her skirts; and it prevaileth she remembereth against them: he not her last end; hath spread a net therefore she for my feet, he came down hath turned me wonderfully: she back: he hath had no comforter. made me desolate O LORD, behold my [and] faint all affliction: for the day. the enemy hath 1:14 The yoke of magnified my transgressions [himself]. is bound by his 1:10 The hand: they are adversary hath wreathed, [and] spread out his come up upon my hand upon all her neck: he hath pleasant things: made my strength for she hath seen to fall, the Lord [that] the hath delivered me heathen entered into [their] into her hands, [from sanctuary, whom whom] I am not thou didst able to rise up. command [that] 1:15 The Lord they should not hath trodden enter into thy under foot all my congregation. mighty [men] in 1:11 All her the midst of me: people sigh, they he hath called an seek bread; they assembly against have given their me to crush my pleasant things young men: the for meat to Lord hath trodden relieve the soul: the virgin, the see, O LORD, and daughter of consider; for I Judah, [as] in a am become vile. winepress. 1:12 [Is it] 1:16 For these nothing to you, [things] I weep; all ye that pass mine eye, mine by? behold, and eye runneth down see if there be with water, any sorrow like because the unto my sorrow, comforter that which is done should relieve my unto me, soul is far from wherewith the me: my children LORD hath are desolate, afflicted [me] in because the enemy the day of his prevailed. fierce anger. 1:17 Zion 1:13 From above spreadeth forth her hands, [and enemies have there is] none to heard of my comfort her: the trouble; they are LORD hath glad that thou commanded hast done [it]: concerning Jacob, thou wilt bring [that] his the day [that] adversaries thou hast called, [should be] round and they shall be about him: like unto me. Jerusalem is as a 1:22 Let all menstruous woman their wickedness among them. come before thee; 1:18 The LORD is and do unto them, righteous; for I as thou hast done have rebelled unto me for all against his my commandment: transgressions: hear, I pray you, for my sighs all people, and [are] many, and behold my sorrow: my heart [is] my virgins and my faint. young men are 2:1 How hath the gone into Lord covered the captivity. daughter of Zion 1:19 I called with a cloud in for my lovers, his anger, [and] [but] they cast down from deceived me: my heaven unto the priests and mine earth the beauty elders gave up of Israel, and the ghost in the remembered not city, while they his footstool in sought their meat the day of his to relieve their anger! souls. 2:2 The Lord 1:20 Behold, O hath swallowed up LORD; for I [am] all the in distress: my habitations of bowels are Jacob, and hath troubled; mine not pitied: he heart is turned hath thrown down within me; for I in his wrath the have grievously strong holds of rebelled: abroad the daughter of the sword Judah; he hath bereaveth, at brought [them] home [there is] down to the as death. ground: he hath 1:21 They have polluted the heard that I kingdom and the sigh: [there is] princes thereof. none to comfort 2:3 He hath cut me: all mine off in [his] fierce anger all his anger the the horn of king and the Israel: he hath priest. drawn back his 2:7 The Lord right hand from hath cast off his before the enemy, altar, he hath and he burned abhorred his against Jacob sanctuary, he like a flaming hath given up fire, [which] into the hand of devoureth round the enemy the about. walls of her 2:4 He hath bent palaces; they his bow like an have made a noise enemy: he stood in the house of with his right the LORD, as in hand as an the day of a adversary, and solemn feast. slew all [that 2:8 The LORD were] pleasant to hath purposed to the eye in the destroy the wall tabernacle of the of the daughter daughter of Zion: of Zion: he hath he poured out his stretched out a fury like fire. line, he hath not 2:5 The Lord was withdrawn his as an enemy: he hand from hath swallowed up destroying: Israel, he hath therefore he made swallowed up all the rampart and her palaces: he the wall to hath destroyed lament; they his strong holds, languished and hath together. increased in the 2:9 Her gates daughter of Judah are sunk into the mourning and ground; he hath lamentation. destroyed and 2:6 And he hath broken her bars: violently taken her king and her away his princes [are] tabernacle, as among the [if it were of] a Gentiles: the law garden: he hath [is] no [more]; destroyed his her prophets also places of the find no vision assembly: the from the LORD. LORD hath caused 2:10 The elders the solemn feasts of the daughter and sabbaths to of Zion sit upon be forgotten in the ground, [and] Zion, and hath keep silence: despised in the they have cast up indignation of dust upon their heads; they have they have not girded themselves discovered thine with sackcloth: iniquity, to turn the virgins of away thy Jerusalem hang captivity; but down their heads have seen for to the ground. thee false 2:11 Mine eyes burdens and do fail with causes of tears, my bowels banishment. are troubled, my 2:15 All that liver is poured pass by clap upon the earth, [their] hands at for the thee; they hiss destruction of and wag their the daughter of head at the my people; daughter of because the Jerusalem, children and the [saying, Is] this sucklings swoon the city that in the streets of [men] call The the city. perfection of 2:12 They say to beauty, The joy their mothers, of the whole Where [is] corn earth? and wine? when 2:16 All thine they swooned as enemies have the wounded in opened their the streets of mouth against the city, when thee: they hiss their soul was and gnash the poured out into teeth: they say, their mothers' We have swallowed bosom. [her] up: 2:13 What thing certainly this shall I take to [is] the day that witness for thee? we looked for; we what thing shall have found, we I liken to thee, have seen [it]. O daughter of 2:17 The LORD Jerusalem? what hath done [that] shall I equal to which he had thee, that I may devised; he hath comfort thee, O fulfilled his virgin daughter word that he had of Zion? for thy commanded in the breach [is] great days of old: he like the sea: who hath thrown down, can heal thee? and hath not 2:14 Thy pitied: and he prophets have hath caused seen vain and [thine] enemy to foolish things rejoice over for thee: and thee, he hath set up the horn of anger; thou hast thine killed, [and] not adversaries. pitied. 2:18 Their heart 2:22 Thou hast cried unto the called as in a Lord, O wall of solemn day my the daughter of terrors round Zion, let tears about, so that in run down like a the day of the river day and LORD'S anger none night: give escaped nor thyself no rest; remained: those let not the apple that I have of thine eye swaddled and cease. brought up hath 2:19 Arise, cry mine enemy out in the night: consumed. in the beginning 3:1 I [am] the of the watches man [that] hath pour out thine seen affliction heart like water by the rod of his before the face wrath. of the Lord: lift 3:2 He hath led up thy hands me, and brought toward him for [me into] the life of thy darkness, but not young children, [into] light. that faint for 3:3 Surely hunger in the top against me is he of every street. turned; he 2:20 Behold, O turneth his hand LORD, and [against me] all consider to whom the day. thou hast done 3:4 My flesh and this. Shall the my skin hath he women eat their made old: he hath fruit, [and] broken my bones. children of a 3:5 He hath span long? shall builded against the priest and me, and compassed the prophet be [me] with gall slain in the and travail. sanctuary of the 3:6 He hath set Lord? me in dark 2:21 The young places, as [they and the old lie that be] dead of on the ground in old. the streets: my 3:7 He hath virgins and my hedged me about, young men are that I cannot get fallen by the out: he hath made sword; thou hast my chain heavy. slain [them] in 3:8 Also when I the day of thine cry and shout, he shutteth out my LORD: prayer. 3:19 Remembering 3:9 He hath mine affliction enclosed my ways and my misery, with hewn stone, the wormwood and he hath made my the gall. paths crooked. 3:20 My soul 3:10 He [was] hath [them] still unto me [as] a in remembrance, bear lying in and is humbled in wait, [and as] a me. lion in secret 3:21 This I places. recall to my 3:11 He hath mind, therefore turned aside my have I hope. ways, and pulled 3:22 [It is of] me in pieces: he the LORD'S hath made me mercies that we desolate. are not consumed, 3:12 He hath because his bent his bow, and compassions fail set me as a mark not. for the arrow. 3:23 [They are] 3:13 He hath new every caused the arrows morning: great of his quiver to [is] thy enter into my faithfulness. reins. 3:24 The LORD 3:14 I was a [is] my portion, derision to all saith my soul; my people; [and] therefore will I their song all hope in him. the day. 3:25 The LORD 3:15 He hath [is] good unto filled me with them that wait bitterness, he for him, to the hath made me soul [that] drunken with seeketh him. wormwood. 3:26 [It is] 3:16 He hath good that [a man] also broken my should both hope teeth with gravel and quietly wait stones, he hath for the salvation covered me with of the LORD. ashes. 3:27 [It is] 3:17 And thou good for a man hast removed my that he bear the soul far off from yoke in his peace: I forgat youth. prosperity. 3:28 He sitteth 3:18 And I said, alone and keepeth My strength and silence, because my hope is he hath borne perished from the [it] upon him. 3:29 He putteth for the his mouth in the punishment of his dust; if so be sins? there may be 3:40 Let us hope. search and try 3:30 He giveth our ways, and [his] cheek to turn again to the him that smiteth LORD. him: he is filled 3:41 Let us lift full with up our heart with reproach. [our] hands unto 3:31 For the God in the Lord will not heavens. cast off for 3:42 We have ever: transgressed and 3:32 But though have rebelled: he cause grief, thou hast not yet will he have pardoned. compassion 3:43 Thou hast according to the covered with multitude of his anger, and mercies. persecuted us: 3:33 For he doth thou hast slain, not afflict thou hast not willingly nor pitied. grieve the 3:44 Thou hast children of men. covered thyself 3:34 To crush with a cloud, under his feet that [our] prayer all the prisoners should not pass of the earth, through. 3:35 To turn 3:45 Thou hast aside the right made us [as] the of a man before offscouring and the face of the refuse in the most High, midst of the 3:36 To subvert people. a man in his 3:46 All our cause, the Lord enemies have approveth not. opened their 3:37 Who [is] he mouths against [that] saith, and us. it cometh to 3:47 Fear and a pass, [when] the snare is come Lord commandeth upon us, [it] not? desolation and 3:38 Out of the destruction. mouth of the most 3:48 Mine eye High proceedeth runneth down with not evil and rivers of water good? for the 3:39 Wherefore destruction of doth a living man the daughter of complain, a man my people. 3:49 Mine eye my cause. trickleth down, 3:60 Thou hast and ceaseth not, seen all their without any vengeance [and] intermission, all their 3:50 Till the imaginations LORD look down, against me. and behold from 3:61 Thou hast heaven. heard their 3:51 Mine eye reproach, O LORD, affecteth mine [and] all their heart because of imaginations all the daughters against me; of my city. 3:62 The lips of 3:52 Mine those that rose enemies chased me up against me, sore, like a and their device bird, without against me all cause. the day. 3:53 They have 3:63 Behold cut off my life their sitting in the dungeon, down, and their and cast a stone rising up; I [am] upon me. their music. 3:54 Waters 3:64 Render unto flowed over mine them a head; [then] I recompense, O said, I am cut LORD, according off. to the work of 3:55 I called their hands. upon thy name, O 3:65 Give them LORD, out of the sorrow of heart, low dungeon. thy curse unto 3:56 Thou hast them. heard my voice: 3:66 Persecute hide not thine and destroy them ear at my in anger from breathing, at my under the heavens cry. of the LORD. 3:57 Thou 4:1 How is the drewest near in gold become dim! the day [that] I [how] is the most called upon thee: fine gold thou saidst, Fear changed! the not. stones of the 3:58 O Lord, sanctuary are thou hast pleaded poured out in the the causes of my top of every soul; thou hast street. redeemed my life. 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, 3:59 O LORD, comparable to thou hast seen my fine gold, how wrong: judge thou are they esteemed as earthen rubies, their pitchers, the polishing [was] work of the hands of sapphire: of the potter! 4:8 Their visage 4:3 Even the sea is blacker than a monsters draw out coal; they are the breast, they not known in the give suck to streets: their their young ones: skin cleaveth to the daughter of their bones; it my people [is is withered, it become] cruel, is become like a like the stick. ostriches in the 4:9 [They that wilderness. be] slain with 4:4 The tongue the sword are of the sucking better than [they child cleaveth to that be] slain the roof of his with hunger: for mouth for thirst: these pine away, the young stricken through children ask for [want of] the bread, [and] no fruits of the man breaketh [it] field. unto them. 4:10 The hands 4:5 They that of the pitiful did feed women have sodden delicately are their own desolate in the children: they streets: they were their meat that were brought in the up in scarlet destruction of embrace the daughter of dunghills. my people. 4:6 For the 4:11 The LORD punishment of the hath accomplished iniquity of the his fury; he hath daughter of my poured out his people is greater fierce anger, and than the hath kindled a punishment of the fire in Zion, and sin of Sodom, it hath devoured that was the foundations overthrown as in thereof. a moment, and no 4:12 The kings hands stayed on of the earth, and her. all the 4:7 Her inhabitants of Nazarites were the world, would purer than snow, not have believed they were whiter that the than milk, they adversary and the were more ruddy enemy should have in body than entered into the gates of we cannot go in Jerusalem. our streets: our 4:13 For the end is near, our sins of her days are prophets, [and] fulfilled; for the iniquities of our end is come. her priests, that 4:19 Our have shed the persecutors are blood of the just swifter than the in the midst of eagles of the her, heaven: they 4:14 They have pursued us upon wandered [as] the mountains, blind [men] in they laid wait the streets, they for us in the have polluted wilderness. themselves with 4:20 The breath blood, so that of our nostrils, men could not the anointed of touch their the LORD, was garments. taken in their 4:15 They cried pits, of whom we unto them, Depart said, Under his ye; [it is] shadow we shall unclean; depart, live among the depart, touch heathen. not: when they 4:21 Rejoice and fled away and be glad, O wandered, they daughter of Edom, said among the that dwellest in heathen, They the land of Uz; shall no more the cup also sojourn [there]. shall pass 4:16 The anger through unto of the LORD hath thee: thou shalt divided them; he be drunken, and will no more shalt make regard them: they thyself naked. respected not the 4:22 The persons of the punishment of priests, they thine iniquity is favoured not the accomplished, O elders. daughter of Zion; 4:17 As for us, he will no more our eyes as yet carry thee away failed for our into captivity: vain help: in our he will visit watching we have thine iniquity, O watched for a daughter of Edom; nation [that] he will discover could not save thy sins. [us]. 5:1 Remember, O 4:18 They hunt LORD, what is our steps, that come upon us: consider, and 5:11 They behold our ravished the reproach. women in Zion, 5:2 Our [and] the maids inheritance is in the cities of turned to Judah. strangers, our 5:12 Princes are houses to aliens. hanged up by their hand: the 5:3 We are faces of elders orphans and were not fatherless, our honoured. mothers [are] as 5:13 They took widows. the young men to 5:4 We have grind, and the drunken our water children fell for money; our under the wood. wood is sold unto 5:14 The elders us. have ceased from 5:5 Our necks the gate, the [are] under young men from persecution: we their music. labour, [and] 5:15 The joy of have no rest. our heart is 5:6 We have ceased; our dance given the hand is turned into [to] the mourning. Egyptians, [and 5:16 The crown to] the is fallen [from] Assyrians, to be our head: woe satisfied with unto us, that we bread. have sinned! 5:7 Our fathers 5:17 For this have sinned, [and our heart is are] not; and we faint; for these have borne their [things] our eyes iniquities. are dim. 5:8 Servants 5:18 Because of have ruled over the mountain of us: [there is] Zion, which is none that doth desolate, the deliver [us] out foxes walk upon of their hand. it. 5:9 We gat our 5:19 Thou, O bread with [the LORD, remainest peril of] our for ever; thy lives because of throne from the sword of the generation to wilderness. generation. 5:10 Our skin 5:20 Wherefore was black like an dost thou forget oven because of us for ever, the terrible [and] forsake us famine. so long time? 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old. 5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us. ^Z^Z ~~~~~~