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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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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?
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].
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: