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  Lamentations

  1:1 Hoary!

  1:2 She hey are be her enemies.

  1:3 Judah is goo captivity because of affli, and because of great servitude: she ds.

  1:4 The erness.

  1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are goo captivity before the enemy.

  1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are be like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone he pursuer.

  1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affli and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, hs.

  1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously siherefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and tuh backward.

  1:9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came doh magnified himself.

  1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heatheered into her sanctuary, ion.

  1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and sider; for I am be vile.

  1:12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrohe day of his fierger.

  1:13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are o rise up.

  1:15 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 youhe LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

  1:16 For these things I he enemy prevailed.

  1:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is ofort her: the LORD hathmanded ing Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous hem.

  1:18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against hisma: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorroy.

  1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost iy, heir souls.

  1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my boh.

  1:21 They have heard that I sigh: there is ofort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast do: thou o me.

  1:22 Let all their .

  2:1 Hohe day of his anger!

  2:2 The LORD hath shereof.

  2:3 He hath cut off in his fierger all the horn of Israel: he hath dra.

  2:4 He hath bent his bo his fury like fire.

  2:5 The LORD ion.

  2:6 Ah violently taken a.

  2:7 The LORD hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the ehe .

  2:8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the her.

  2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gehe lahe LORD.

  2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silehey have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves he ground.

  2:11 Mine eyes do fail y.

  2:12 They say to their mothers, Where isand hers" bosom.

  2:13 What thing shall I take to hee?

  2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn a.

  2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and h?

  2:16 All thine enemies have opeheir mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have s.

  2:17 The LORD hath dohat hine adversaries.

  2:18 Their heart cried unto the LORD, O hine eye cease.

  2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the .

  2:20 Behold, O LORD, and sider to he Lord?

  2:21 The young and the old lie on the ground ireets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sied.

  2:22 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 remaihose that I have sh mine enemy ed.

  3:1 I AM the man that hath seen affli by the rod of his h.

  3:2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

  3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he tuh his hand against me all the day.

  3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  3:5 He hath builded against me, andpassed me ravail.

  3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.

  3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I ot get out: he hath made myheavy.

  3:8 Alsomy prayer.

  3:9 He hath inclosed my hs crooked.

  3:10 Heplaces.

  3:11 He hath turned aside my e.

  3:12 He hath bent his bohe arrow.

  3:13 He hath caused the arroo my reins.

  3:14 I he day.

  3:15 He hath filled me h wormwood.

  3:16 He hath also broken my teeth h ashes.

  3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I fat prosperity.

  3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:

  3:19 Remembering mine affli and my misery, the he gall.

  3:20 My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

  3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.

  3:22 It is of the LORD"s mercies that .

  3:23 They are nehfulness.

  3:24 The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.

  3:25 The LORD is good unto them that h him.

  3:26 It is good that a man should both hope and quietly he LORD.

  3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.

  3:28 He sitteth alone ah silence, because he hath bor upon him.

  3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

  3:30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full h reproach.

  3:31 For the LORDoff for ever:

  3:32 But though he cause grief, yet ude of his mercies.

  3:33 For he doth not afflict he children of men.

  3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.

  3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

  3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.

  3:37 Who is he that saith, and iteth to pass, ?

  3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?

  3:39 Wherefore doth a living manplain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

  3:40 Let us seard try our he LORD.

  3:41 Let us lift up our heart he heavens.

  3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.

  3:43 Thou hast covered ied.

  3:44 Thou hast covered thyself hrough.

  3:45 Thou hast made us as the offsc and refuse in the midst of the people.

  3:46 All our enemies have opeheir mouths against us.

  3:47 Fear and a snare ise upon us, desolation aru.

  3:48 Mine eye ruh doer of my people.

  3:49 Mirickleth doermission.

  3:50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.

  3:51 Mine eye affecteth mi because of all the daughters of my city.

  3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird,cause.

  3:53 They have y life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.

  3:54 Waters flo off.

  3:55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.

  3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

  3:57 Thou dre.

  3:58 O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.

  3:59 O LORD, thou hast seen my hou my cause.

  3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeand all their imaginations against me.

  3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;

  3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

  3:63 Behold their sitting doheir musick.

  3:64 Render unto them a rpence, O LORD, acc to the heir hands.

  3:65 Give them sorrohem.

  3:66 Persecute aroy them in anger from uhe heavens of the LORD.

  4:1 Ho.

  4:2 The precious sons of Zion,parable to fine gold, hoer!

  4:3 Even the sea monsters drahe wilderness.

  4:4 The tongue of the sug child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no mah it unto them.

  4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate ireets: they thatembrace dunghills.

  4:6 For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that ayed on her.

  4:7 Her Nazarites heir polishing was of sapphire:

  4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not knoick.

  4:9 They that be slain he field.

  4:10 The hands of the pitiful er of my people.

  4:11 The LORD hath aplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.

  4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the es of Jerusalem.

  4:13 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,

  4:14 They have s.

  4:15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is un; depart, depart, touot: here.

  4:16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he he elders.

  4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in oursave us.

  4:18 They hunt our steps, that s: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end ise.

  4:19 Our persecutors are she wilderness.

  4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, hen.

  4:21 Rejoid be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dhyself naked.

  4:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is aplished, O daughter of Zion; he hy sins.

  5:1 Remember, O LORD,ise upon us: sider, and behold our reproach.

  5:2 Our iance is turers, our houses to aliens.

  5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

  5:4 We have drunken our o us.

  5:5 Our necks are under persecution: .

  5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied h bread.

  5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and ies.

  5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is hat doth deliver us out of their hand.

  5:9 We gat our bread he wilderness.

  5:10 Our skin errible famine.

  5:11 They ravished the ies of Judah.

  5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of eldershonoured.

  5:13 They took the youo grind, and the children fell uhe wood.

  5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.

  5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into m.

  5:16 The cro we have sinned!

  5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are dim.

  5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, .

  5:19 Thou, O LORD, remai for ever; thy throne from geion to geion.

  5:20 Wherefore dost thou fet us for ever, and forsake us so long time?

  5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and urned; renew our days as of old.

  5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art veryus.