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LAM 1:1  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!

LAM 1:2  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.

LAM 1:3  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.

LAM 1:4  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.

LAM 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 gone
 into captivity before the enemy.

LAM 1:6  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.

LAM 1:7  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.

LAM 1:8  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.

LAM 1:9  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.

LAM 1:10  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.

LAM 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 consider; for I am
 become vile.

LAM 1:12  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.

LAM 1:13  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.

LAM 1:14  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.

LAM 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 young men: the LORD
 hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

LAM 1:16  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.

LAM 1:17  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.

LAM 1:18  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.

LAM 1:19  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.

LAM 1:20  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.

LAM 1:21  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.

LAM 1:22  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.

LAM 2:1  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!

LAM 2:2  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.

LAM 2:3  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.

LAM 2:4  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.

LAM 2:5  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.

LAM 2:6  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.

LAM 2:7  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.

LAM 2:8  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.

LAM 2:9  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.

LAM 2:10  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.

LAM 2:11  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.

LAM 2:12  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.

LAM 2:13  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?

LAM 2:14  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.

LAM 2:15  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?

LAM 2:16  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