Most Popular Bible Verses in Lamentations
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ח Khet
we do not perish,
for His mercies never end.
the city
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.
ג Gimel
following
she lives among the nations
but finds no place to rest.
All her pursuers have overtaken her
in narrow places.
ה He
her enemies are at ease,
for the Lord has made her suffer
because of her many transgressions.
Her children have gone away
as captives before the adversary.
ד Dalet
for no one comes to the appointed festivals.
All her gates are deserted;
her priests groan,
her young women grieve,
and she herself is bitter.
ג Gimel
in His burning anger
and withdrawn His right hand
in the presence of the enemy.
He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything.
ה He
are destitute in the streets;
those who were reared in purple garments
huddle in garbage heaps.
ו Vav
from Daughter Zion.
Her leaders are like stags
that find no pasture;
they walk away exhausted
before the hunter.
ז Zayin
Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings
that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into the adversary’s hand,
she had no one to help.
The adversaries looked at her,
laughing over her downfall.
ח Khet
therefore, she has become an object of scorn.
All who honored her now despise her,
for they have seen her nakedness.
She herself groans and turns away.
י Yod
all her precious belongings.
She has even seen the nations
enter her sanctuary—
those You had forbidden
to enter Your assembly.
כ Kaf
while they search for bread.
They have traded their precious belongings for food
in order to stay alive.
Lord, look and see
how I have become despised.
ט Tet
She never considered her end.
Her downfall was astonishing;
there was no one to comfort her.
Lord, look on my affliction,
for the enemy triumphs!
ו Vav
is greater than that of Sodom,
which was overthrown in an instant
without a hand laid on it.
ל Lamed
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?
נ Nun
fastened together by His hand;
they have been placed on my neck,
and the Lord has broken my strength.
He has handed me over
to those I cannot withstand.
ת Tav
and deal with them
as You have dealt with me
because of all my transgressions.
For my groans are many,
and I am sick at heart.
צ Tsade
for I have rebelled against His command.
Listen, all you people;
look at my pain.
My young men and women
have gone into captivity.
ס Samek
all the mighty men within me.
He has summoned an army
to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah
like grapes in a winepress.
מ Mem
He made it descend.
He spread a net for my feet
and turned me back.
He made me desolate,
sick all day long.
ע Ayin
my eyes flow
For there is no one nearby to comfort me,
no one to keep me alive.
My children are desolate
because the enemy has prevailed.
פ Pe
there is no one to comfort her.
The Lord has issued a decree against Jacob
that his neighbors should be his adversaries.
Jerusalem has become
something impure
שׁ Shin
but there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my misfortune;
they are glad that You have caused it.
Bring on the day You have announced,
so that they may become like me.
He has made my paths crooked.
ד Dalet
His right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was loved,
pouring out His wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.
ק Qof
but they betrayed me.
My priests and elders
perished in the city
while searching for food
to keep themselves alive.
ר Resh
I am churning within;
my heart is broken,
for I have been very rebellious.
Outside, the sword takes the children;
inside, there is death.
ח Khet
they are not recognized in the streets.
Their skin has shriveled on their bones;
it has become dry like wood.
ה He
He has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah.
ו Vav
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting.
The Lord has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.
ז Zayin
whiter than milk;
their bodies
their appearance like sapphire.
ז Zayin
repudiated His sanctuary;
He has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
but we bear their punishment.
mocked by their songs
י Yod
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads
and put on sackcloth.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
ח Khet
the wall of Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line
and did not restrain Himself from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
together they waste away.
ט Tet
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the Lord.
ט Tet
to the person who seeks Him.
great is Your faithfulness!
ס Samek
scornfully clap their hands
They mock
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?
as well as my hope from the Lord.
ל Lamed
Where is the grain and wine?
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives fade away
in the arms of their mothers.
פ Pe
open their mouths against you.
They hiss and gnash their teeth,
saying, “We have swallowed her up.
This is the day we have waited for!
We have lived to see it.”
ט Tet
than those slain by hunger,
who waste away, pierced with pain
because the fields lack produce.
ק Qof
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord’s presence.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.
כ Kaf
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief
because of the destruction of my dear people,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
י Yod
have cooked their own children;
they became their food
during the destruction of my dear people.
מ Mem
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?
for deliverance from the Lord.
Daughter Zion with His anger!
He has thrown down Israel’s glory
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool
in the day of His anger.
נ Nun
that were empty and deceptive;
they did not reveal your guilt
and so restore your fortunes.
They saw oracles for you
that were empty and misleading.
כ Kaf
poured out His burning anger;
He has ignited a fire in Zion,
and it has consumed her foundations.
therefore I will put my hope in Him.
because of the sword in the wilderness.
ע Ayin
He has accomplished His decree,
which He ordained in days of old.
He has demolished without compassion,
letting the enemy gloat over you
and exalting the horn of your adversaries.
girls in the cities of Judah.
ר Resh
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord’s sanctuary?
in darkness instead of light.
from the ravages of hunger.
שׁ Shin
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion.
to the one who would strike him;
let him be filled with shame.
while he is still young.
ל Lamed
and all the world’s inhabitants did not believe
that an enemy or adversary
could enter Jerusalem’s gates.
י Yod
for God has disciplined him.
ב Bet
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In His wrath He has demolished
the fortified cities
He brought them to the ground
and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.
מ Mem
and the guilt of her priests,
who shed the blood of the righteous
within her.
ת Tav
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the Lord’s anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured
שׂ Sin
you resident of the land of Uz!
Yet the cup
you will get drunk and expose yourself.
ר Resh
was captured in their traps.
We had said about him,
“We will live under his protection among the nations.”
צ Tsade
Wall of Daughter Zion,
let your tears run down like a river
day and night.
Give yourself no relief
and your
the fine gold become dull!
The stones of the temple
at the corner of every street.
renew our days as in former times,
נ Nun
defiled by this blood,
so that no one dared
to touch their garments.
our dancing has turned to mourning.
boys stumble under loads of wood.
elders are shown no respect.
ת Tav
He will not lengthen your exile.
But He will punish your iniquity, Daughter Edom,
and will expose your sins.
ס Samek
“Away, away! Don’t touch us!”
So they wandered aimlessly.
It was said among the nations,
“They can stay here no longer.”
ד Dalet
clings to the roof of his mouth from thirst.
Little children beg for bread,
but no one gives them any.
ע Ayin
as we looked in vain for assistance;
we watched from our towers
for a nation
פ Pe
He regards them no more.
The priests are not respected;
the elders find no favor.
ג Gimel
to nurse their young,
but my dear people have become cruel
like ostriches
ב Bet
once worth their weight in pure gold
how they are regarded as clay jars,
the work of a potter’s hands!
צ Tsade
so that we could not walk in our streets.
Our end drew near;
Our end had come!
and has jackals prowling in it.
and are intensely angry with us.
the young men, their music.
Your throne endures from generation to generation.
ק Qof
than eagles in the sky;
they relentlessly pursued us over the mountains
and ambushed us in the wilderness.
our houses to foreigners.
abandoned us for our entire lives?
we are tired, and no one offers us rest.
ב Bet
with tears on her cheeks.
There is no one to offer her comfort,
not one from all her lovers.
All her friends have betrayed her;
they have become her enemies.
מ Mem
unless the Lord has ordained it?
נ Nun
and turn back to the Lord.
come from the mouth of the Most High?
He will show compassion
according to His abundant, faithful love.
any man, because of the punishment for his sins?
ס Samek
You have killed without compassion.
because of the destruction of my dear people.
You have not forgiven.
ת Tav
according to the work of their hands.
under Your heavens.