The California Collection/TheCaliforniaCollection.cdr/his051/lamentat.txt

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LAMENTATIONS 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!
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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}.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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!
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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?
LAMENTATIONS 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.
LAMENTATIONS 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?
LAMENTATIONS 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 have seen {it}.
LAMENTATIONS 2:17 The Lord hath done {that} which he had devised;
he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of
old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused
{thine} enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of
thine adversaries.
LAMENTATIONS 2:18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the
daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night:
give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
LAMENTATIONS 2:19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning
of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of
the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young
children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
LAMENTATIONS 2:20 Behold, O Lord, and consider to whom thou hast
done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, {and} children of a
span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the
sanctuary of the Lord?
LAMENTATIONS 2:21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the
streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;
thou hast slain {them} in the day of thine anger; thou hast
killed, {and} not pitied.
LAMENTATIONS 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 remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine
enemy consumed.
LAMENTATIONS 3:1 I {am} the man {that} hath seen affliction by
the rod of his wrath.
LAMENTATIONS 3:2 He hath led me, and brought {me into} darkness,
but not {into} light.
LAMENTATIONS 3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his
hand {against me} all the day.
LAMENTATIONS 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath
broken my bones.
LAMENTATIONS 3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed {me}
with gall and travail.
LAMENTATIONS 3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as {they that be}
dead of old.
LAMENTATIONS 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out:
he hath made my chain heavy.
LAMENTATIONS 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my
prayer.
LAMENTATIONS 3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he
hath made my paths crooked.
LAMENTATIONS 3:10 He {was} unto me {as} a bear lying in wait,
{and as} a lion in secret places.
LAMENTATIONS 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in
pieces: he hath made me desolate.
LAMENTATIONS 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for
the arrow.
LAMENTATIONS 3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to
enter into my reins.
LAMENTATIONS 3:14 I was a derision to all my people; {and} their
song all the day.
LAMENTATIONS 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made
me drunken with wormwood.
LAMENTATIONS 3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel
stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
LAMENTATIONS 3:17 And thou hast removed my soul far off from
peace: I forgat prosperity.
LAMENTATIONS 3:18 And I said, My strength and my hope is perished
from the Lord:
LAMENTATIONS 3:19 Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the
wormwood and the gall.
LAMENTATIONS 3:20 My soul hath {them} still in remembrance, and
is humbled in me.
LAMENTATIONS 3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I
hope.
LAMENTATIONS 3:22 {It is of} the Lord's mercies that we are not
consumed, because his compassions fail not.
LAMENTATIONS 3:23 {They are} new every morning: great {is} thy
faithfulness.
LAMENTATIONS 3:24 The Lord {is} my portion, saith my soul;
therefore will I hope in him.
LAMENTATIONS 3:25 The Lord {is} good unto them that wait for him,
to the soul {that} seeketh him.
LAMENTATIONS 3:26 {It is} good that {a man} should both hope and
quietly wait for the salvation of the Lord.
LAMENTATIONS 3:27 {It is} good for a man that he bear the yoke in
his youth.
LAMENTATIONS 3:28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because
he hath borne {it} upon him.
LAMENTATIONS 3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be
there may be hope.
LAMENTATIONS 3:30 He giveth {his} cheek to him that smiteth him:
he is filled full with reproach.
LAMENTATIONS 3:31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
LAMENTATIONS 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have
compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
LAMENTATIONS 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve
the children of men.
LAMENTATIONS 3:34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of
the earth.
LAMENTATIONS 3:35 To turn aside the right of a man before the
face of the most High,
LAMENTATIONS 3:36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord
approveth not.
LAMENTATIONS 3:37 Who {is} he {that} saith, and it cometh to
pass, {when} the Lord commandeth {it} not?
LAMENTATIONS 3:38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth
not evil and good?
LAMENTATIONS 3:39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for
the punishment of his sins?
LAMENTATIONS 3:40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again
to the Lord.
LAMENTATIONS 3:41 Let us lift up our heart with {our} hands unto
God in the heavens.
LAMENTATIONS 3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou
hast not pardoned.
LAMENTATIONS 3:43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted
us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
LAMENTATIONS 3:44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that
{our} prayer should not pass through.
LAMENTATIONS 3:45 Thou hast made us {as} the offscouring and
refuse in the midst of the people.
LAMENTATIONS 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths
against us.
LAMENTATIONS 3:47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation
and destruction.
LAMENTATIONS 3:48 Mine eye Runneth down with rivers of water for
the destruction of the daughter of my people.
LAMENTATIONS 3:49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not,
without any intermission.
LAMENTATIONS 3:50 Till the Lord look down, and behold from
heaven.
LAMENTATIONS 3:51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all
the daughters of my city.
LAMENTATIONS 3:52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird,
without cause.
LAMENTATIONS 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and
cast a stone upon me.
LAMENTATIONS 3:54 Waters flowed over mine head; {then} I said, I
am cut off.
LAMENTATIONS 3:55 I called upon thy name, O Lord, out of the low
dungeon.
LAMENTATIONS 3:56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at
my breathing, at my cry.
LAMENTATIONS 3:57 Thou drewest near in the day {that} I called
upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
LAMENTATIONS 3:58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my
soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
LAMENTATIONS 3:59 O Lord, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my
cause.
LAMENTATIONS 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance {and} all
their imaginations against me.
LAMENTATIONS 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, {and}
all their imaginations against me;
LAMENTATIONS 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and
their device against me all the day.
LAMENTATIONS 3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up;
I {am} their musick.
LAMENTATIONS 3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O Lord,
according to the work of their hands.
LAMENTATIONS 3:65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
LAMENTATIONS 3:66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under
the heavens of the Lord.
LAMENTATIONS 4:1 How is the gold become dim! {how} is the most
fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in
the top of every street.
LAMENTATIONS 4:2 The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine
gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the
hands of the potter!
LAMENTATIONS 4:3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they
give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people {is
become} cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
LAMENTATIONS 4:4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the
roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, {and}
no man breaketh {it} unto them.
LAMENTATIONS 4:5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in
the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace
dunghills.
LAMENTATIONS 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 was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed
on her.
LAMENTATIONS 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were
whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their
polishing {was} of sapphire:
LAMENTATIONS 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are
not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it
is withered, it is become like a stick.
LAMENTATIONS 4:9 {They that be} slain with the sword are better
than {they that be} slain with hunger: for these pine away,
stricken through for {want of} the fruits of the field.
LAMENTATIONS 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden
their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of
the daughter of my people.
LAMENTATIONS 4:11 The Lord hath accomplished his fury; he hath
poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and
it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
LAMENTATIONS 4:12 The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants
of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the
enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.
LAMENTATIONS 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,
LAMENTATIONS 4:14 They have wandered {as} blind {men} in the
streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men
could not touch their garments.
LAMENTATIONS 4:15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; {it is}
unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and
wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn
{there}.
LAMENTATIONS 4:16 The anger of the Lord hath divided them; he
will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the
priests, they favoured not the elders.
LAMENTATIONS 4:17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain
help: in our watching we have watched for a nation {that} could
not save {us}.
LAMENTATIONS 4:18 They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our
streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is
come.
LAMENTATIONS 4:19 Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of
the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait
for us in the wilderness.
LAMENTATIONS 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the
Lord, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow
we shall live among the heathen.
LAMENTATIONS 4:21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that
dwellest in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto
thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.
LAMENTATIONS 4:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is
accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away
into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom;
he will discover thy sins.
LAMENTATIONS 5:1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us:
consider, and behold our reproach.
LAMENTATIONS 5:2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our
houses to aliens.
LAMENTATIONS 5:3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers {are}
as widows.
LAMENTATIONS 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is
sold unto us.
LAMENTATIONS 5:5 Our necks {are} under persecution: we labour,
{and} have no rest.
LAMENTATIONS 5:6 We have given the hand {to} the Egyptians, {and
to} the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
LAMENTATIONS 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, {and are} not; and we
have borne their iniquities.
LAMENTATIONS 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: {there is} none
that doth deliver {us} out their hand.
LAMENTATIONS 5:9 We gat our bread with {the peril of} our lives
because of the sword of the wilderness.
LAMENTATIONS 5:10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the
terrible famine.
LAMENTATIONS 5:11 They ravished the women in Zion, {and} the
maids in the cities of Judah.
LAMENTATIONS 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces
of elders were not honoured.
LAMENTATIONS 5:13 They took the young men to grind, and the
children fell under the wood.
LAMENTATIONS 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young
men from their musick.
LAMENTATIONS 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is
turned into mourning.
LAMENTATIONS 5:16 The crown is fallen {from} our head: woe unto
us, that we have sinned!
LAMENTATIONS 5:17 For this our heart is faint; for these {things}
our eyes are dim.
LAMENTATIONS 5:18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is
desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
LAMENTATIONS 5:19 Thou, O Lord, remainest for ever; thy throne
from generation to generation.
LAMENTATIONS 5:20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, {and}
forsake us so long time?
LAMENTATIONS 5:21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Lord, and we shall be
turned; renew our days as of old.
LAMENTATIONS 5:22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art
very wroth against us.