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1:1 How doth the city sit solitary [that] was full of people!
 She that was great among the nations is become as a widow; the
 princess among the provinces is become tributary!
1:2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her
 cheeks; among all her lovers she hath no comforter; all her
 friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her
 enemies.
1:3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and
 because of great servitude; she dwelleth among the nations, she
 findeth no rest: all her pursuers have overtaken her within the
 straits.
1:4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn
 assembly: all her gates are desolate; her priests sigh, her
 virgins are in grief; and as for her, she is in bitterness.
1:5 Her adversaries have become the head, her enemies prosper;
 for Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her
 transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the
 adversary.
1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her splendour is departed:
 her princes are become like harts that find no pasture; and
 they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
1:7 In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since
 her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did
 help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which
 she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they
 mock at her ruin.
1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore is she removed
 as an impurity: all that honoured her despise her because they
 have seen her nakedness; and she sigheth, and turneth backward.
1:9 Her impurity was in her skirts, she remembered not her
 latter end; and she came down wonderfully: she hath no
 comforter. Jehovah, behold my affliction; for the enemy hath
 magnified himself.
1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her
 precious things; for she hath seen the nations enter into her
 sanctuary, concerning whom thou didst command that they should
 not enter into thy congregation.
1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their
 precious things for food to revive [their] soul. See, Jehovah,
 and consider, for I am become vile.
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, whom Jehovah hath afflicted in the day of his fierce anger.
1:13 From on high 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.
1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they
 are wreathed, they are come up upon my neck; he hath made my
 strength to fail; the Lord hath delivered me into hands out of
 which I am not able to rise up.
1:15 The Lord hath cast down 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 as a winepress the virgin daughter
 of Judah.
1:16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down
 with water: for the comforter that should revive my soul is far
 from me; my children are desolate, for the enemy hath
 prevailed.
1:17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands; there is none to comfort
 her; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his
 adversaries [should be] round about him; Jerusalem is as an
 impurity among them.
1:18 Jehovah is righteous; for I have rebelled against his
 commandment. Hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my
 sorrow. My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.
1:19 I called for my lovers, they have deceived me; my priests
 and mine elders have expired in the city, while they sought
 them food to revive their soul.
1:20 See, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled;
 my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled:
 without, the sword hath bereaved [me], within, it is as death.
1:21 They have heard that I sigh: I have no comforter: all mine
 enemies have heard of my calamity; they are glad that thou hast
 done it. Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and
 they shall be like unto me.
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.
2:1 How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion
 with a cloud! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth
 the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the
 day of his anger.
2:2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob, and
 hath not spared; he hath thrown down in his wrath the
 strongholds of the daughter of Judah: he hath brought [them]
 down to the ground; he hath profaned the kingdom and the
 princes thereof.
2:3 He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he
 hath withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy; and he
 burned up Jacob like a flaming fire, devouring round about.
2:4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy; he stood with his right
 hand as an adversary, and hath slain all that was pleasant to
 the eye: in the tent of the daughter of Zion, he hath poured
 out his fury like fire.
2:5 The Lord is become as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel;
 he hath swallowed up all her palaces; he hath destroyed his
 strongholds, and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah
 mourning and lamentation.
2:6 And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden;
 he hath destroyed his place of assembly: Jehovah hath caused
 set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion, and hath
 despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest.
2:7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath rejected 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
 Jehovah, as on the day of a set feast.
2:8 Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
 Zion: he hath stretched out the line, he hath not withdrawn his
 hand from destroying; and he hath made the rampart and the wall
 to lament: they languish together.
2:9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and
 broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the
 nations: the law is no [more]; her prophets also find no vision
 from Jehovah.
2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
 they keep silence; they have cast dust upon their heads, they
 have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem
 hang down their head to the ground.
2:11 Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled;
 my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the
 daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the
 streets of the city.
2:12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when
 they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city; when they
 pour out their soul into their mothers' bosom.
2:13 What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken
 unto thee, daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee,
 that I may comfort thee, virgin daughter of Zion? For thy ruin
 is great as the sea: who will heal thee?
2:14 Thy prophets have seen vanity and folly for thee; and they
 have not revealed thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity;
 but have seen for thee burdens of falsehood and causes of
 expulsion.
2:15 All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and
 shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem: Is this the city
 which they called, The perfection of beauty, The joy of the
 whole earth?
2:16 All thine enemies open their mouth against thee, they hiss
 and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up; this
 is forsooth the day that we looked for: we have found, we have
 seen [it].
2:17 Jehovah hath done what he had devised; he hath fulfilled
 his word which he had commanded from the days of old: he hath
 thrown down, and hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy
 to rejoice over thee; he hath set up the horn of thine
 adversaries.
2:18 Their heart cried unto the Lord. O wall of the daughter of