[It is of] LORD's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions do not fail.

He has made my flesh and my skin old. He has broken my bones.

He has built against me, and encompassed me with gall and travail.

In fierce anger he has cut off all the horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy. And he has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire which devours round about.

Those who fed luxuriously are desolate in the streets. Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

He has made me to dwell in dark places, as those who have long been dead.

For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands were laid upon her.

He has walled me around, that I cannot go forth. He has made my chain heavy.

He has walled up my ways with hewn stone. He has made my paths crooked.

He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has stood with his right hand as an adversary, and has slain all who were pleasant to the eye. He has poured out his wrath like fire in the tent of the daughter of Zion.

Their visage is blacker than a coal. They are not known in the streets. Their skin clings to their bones. It is withered. It has become like a stick.

Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shuts out my prayer.

We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.

LORD has become as an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces. He has destroyed his strongholds. And he has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.

And he has taken away his tabernacle violently, as a garden. He has destroyed his place of assembly. LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion. And in the indignation of his anger has despised the king and

He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces. He has made me desolate.

He is to me as a bear laying in wait, as a lion in concealed places.

Her ranking men were purer than snow. They were whiter than milk. They were more ruddy in body than rubies. Their polishing was as of sapphire.

He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.

LORD has cast off his altar. He has abhorred his sanctuary. He has given up the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of LORD, as in the day of a solemn assembly.

I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.

Our fathers sinned, and are not, and we have borne their iniquities.

I have become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground. They 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.

LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out the line. He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying. And he has made the rampart and wall to lament, they languish together.

Her gates are sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her rulers are among the nations where the law is not. Yea, her prophets find no vision from LORD.

And thou have removed my soul far off from peace. I forgot prosperity.

He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my reins.

LORD is good to those who wait for him, to the soul who seeks him.

They are new every morning. Great is thy faithfulness.

All who 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 called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

And I said, My strength is perished, and my expectation from LORD.

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they faint as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones. He has covered me with ashes.

All thine enemies have opened their mouth wide 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.

Those who are slain with the sword are better than those who are slain with hunger, for these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field.

Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches. Pour out thy heart like water before the face of LORD. Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young sons, who faint for hunger at the head of every street.

My eyes fail with tears, my heart is troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young sons and the sucklings faint in the streets of the city.

My soul still has them in remembrance, and is bowed down within me.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

He has filled me with bitterness. He has sated me with wormwood.

What shall I testify to thee? What shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?

Servants rule over us. There is none to deliver us out of their hand.

It is good that a man should hope and quietly wait for the salvation of LORD.

How LORD has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast down the beauty of Israel from heaven to the earth, and has not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.

Thy prophets have seen FALSE and foolish visions for thee. And they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity, but have seen for thee FALSE oracles and causes of banishment.

For LORD will not cast off forever.

LORD has accomplished his wrath. He has poured out his fierce anger, and he has kindled a fire in Zion, which has devoured the foundations thereof.

LORD is my portion, says my soul, therefore I will hope in him.

We get our bread at the peril of our lives, because of the sword of the wilderness.

LORD has done that which he purposed. He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old. He has thrown down, and has not pitied. And he has caused the enemy to rejoice over thee. He has exalted the horn of thine advers

They ravished the women in Zion, the virgins in the cities of Judah.

See, O LORD, and behold to whom thou have done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the sons who are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of LORD?

He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and not in light.

Our skin is black like an oven, because of the burning heat of famine.

Surely he turns his hand against me, again and again all the day.

The youth and the old man lay on the ground in the streets. My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. Thou have slain them in the day of thine anger. Thou have slaughtered, [and] not pitied.

Let him give his cheek to him who smites him. Let him be filled full with reproach.

It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.

The kings of the earth did not believe, nor all the inhabitants of the world, that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.

Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he has laid it upon him.

LORD has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied. In his wrath he has thrown down the strongholds of the daughter of Judah. He has brought them down to the ground. He has profaned the kingdom and the rulers th

[It is] because of the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Thou have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side. And there was none who escaped or remained in the day of LORD's anger. My enemy has consumed those whom I have dandled and brought up.

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, who dwells in the land of Uz. [Yet] the cup shall pass through to thee also. Thou shall be drunken, and shall make thyself naked.

The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations.

Their heart cried to LORD. O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night. Give thyself no respite. Let not the apple of thine eye cease.

How the gold has become dim, the most pure gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of every street.

Turn thou us back to thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned back. Renew our days as of old.

Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope.

They wander as blind men in the streets. They are polluted with blood, so that men cannot touch their garments.

The joy of our heart is ceased, our dance is turned into mourning.

The young men bore the mill, and the sons stumbled under the wood.

Rulers were hanged up by their hand. The faces of elders were not honored.

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 uncover thy sins.

Depart ye, they cried to them. Unclean! Depart, depart, do not touch! When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn [here].

The tongue of the sucking child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst. The young sons ask bread, and no man breaks it to them.

Our eyes do yet fail [in looking] for our vain help. In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.

Remember, O LORD, what has come upon us. Behold, and see our reproach.

The anger of LORD has scattered them. He will no more regard them. They did not respect the persons of the priests. They did not favor the elders.

Even the jackals draw out the breast; they give suck to their young ones. The daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!

They hunt our steps, so that we cannot go in our streets. Our end is near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate. The foxes walk upon it.

But thou have utterly rejected us. Thou are very angry against us.

The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

Thou, O LORD, abide forever. Thy throne is from generation to generation.

For this our heart is faint. For these things our eyes are dim,

Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens. They chased us upon the mountains. They laid wait for us in the wilderness.

The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us! For we have sinned.

Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.

Why do thou forget us forever, [and] forsake us so long time?

We are orphans and fatherless. Our mothers are as widows.

Our pursuers are upon our necks. We are weary, and have no rest.

We have drunken our water for money. Our wood is sold to us.

This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope:

Who is he that says, and it comes to pass, when LORD does not command it?

Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to LORD.

Out of the mouth of the Most High does there not come evil and good.

For though he causes grief, yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.

To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,

For he does not afflict willingly, nor grieve the sons of men.

Why does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?

Let us lift up our heart with our hands to God in the heavens.

to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High,

I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the lowest dungeon.

Thou drew near in the day that I called upon thee. Thou said, Fear not.

to subvert a man in his cause, LORD does not approve.

Thou have covered with anger and pursued us. Thou have slain; thou have not pitied.

Thou have made us an off-scouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples.

My eye stirs my soul, because of all the daughters of my city.

My eye runs down with streams of water, for the destruction of the daughter of my people.

O LORD, thou have pleaded the causes of my soul. Thou have redeemed my life.

They have chased me grievously like a bird, those who are my enemies without cause.

We have transgressed and have rebelled. Thou have not pardoned.

My eye pours down, and does not cease, without any intermission,

Thou have covered thyself with a cloud, so that no prayer can pass through.

All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.

Fear and the pit have come upon us, devastation and destruction.

They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and have cast a stone upon me.

Thou will render to them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

the lips of those who rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.

Thou heard my voice. Hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.

Thou will pursue them in anger, and destroy them from under the heavens of LORD.

Waters flowed over my head. I said, I am cut off.

till LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven.

Thou have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their devices against me,

Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up. I am their song.

Thou have seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me.

Thou will give them hardness of heart, thy curse to them.

O LORD, thou have seen my wrong. Judge thou my cause.