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2

My flesh and my skin has he made old: he has broken my bones.

3

How does the city sit lovely, that was full of people! how has she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how has she become a slave!

4

He has besieged me, and surrounded me with gall and travail.

5

Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her in her distress.

6

Her adversaries have become the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

7

The roads to 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.

8

He has cut off in his fierce anger all the might of Israel: he has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devours round about.

9

They that did eat delicacies are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.

10

And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty has departed: her princes have become like harts that find no pasture, and they have gone without strength before the pursuer.

11

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.

12

He has set me in dark places, like they that are long dead.

13

Jerusalem has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sighs, and turns away.

14

The adversary has spread out his hand over all her precious things: for she has seen that the nations entered into her sanctuary, whom you did command that they should not enter into your congregation.

15

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their treasures for food to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I have become despised.

16

Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her latter end; therefore she came down awesomely: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy has magnified himself.

17

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, with no hands laid on her.

18

Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

19

The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are woven together, and come up upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord has delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.

20

Let all their wickedness come before you; and do unto them, as you have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.

21

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 have gone into captivity.

22

He has hedged me in, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.

23

The Lord has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord has trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.

24

From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate and faint all the day.

25

For these things I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.

26

Zion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD has commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as an unclean thing among them.

27

They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that you have done it: you will bring the day that you have announced, and they shall be like unto me.

28

He has enclosed my ways with hewn stone, he has made my paths crooked.

29

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

30

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and my elders died in the city, while they sought their food to relieve their souls.

31

Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my soul is troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home there is as death.

32

Their appearance is now blacker than coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it has become like a dry stick.

33

Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.

34

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

35

The Lord was as an enemy: he has swallowed up Israel, he has swallowed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

36

And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD has caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.

37

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

38

He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.

39

Her princes were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their appearance was of sapphire:

40

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

41

The Lord has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he has 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.

42

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

43

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

46

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.

47

The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.

48

Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has 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 the LORD.

49

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

50

He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my heart.

53

All that pass by clap their hands at you; 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?

55

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 was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

56

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

57

All your enemies have opened their mouth against you: 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.

58

They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for lack of the fruits of the field.

59

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street.

60

My eyes do fail with tears, my soul is troubled, my heart is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the infants faint in the streets of the city.

61

My soul has them still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.

62

The hands of the compassionate women have boiled their own children: they were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

63

He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunk with wormwood.

64

What thing shall I take to witness for you? what thing shall I liken to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to you, that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your run is vast as the sea: who can heal you?

65

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.

66

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

67

How the Lord has 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!

68

Your prophets have seen vain and foolish things for you: and they have not uncovered your iniquity, to turn away your captivity; but have given you false oracles and causes of banishment.

70

The LORD has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured its foundations.

71

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

72

We got our bread at the peril of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.

73

The LORD has done that which he had purposed; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused your enemy to rejoice over you, he has set up the might of your adversaries.

74

They ravished the women in Zion, and the maidens in the cities of Judah.

75

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom you have done this. Shall the women eat their offspring, the children of their tender care? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

76

He has led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

77

Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

78

Surely against me has he turned; he turns his hand against me all the day.

79

The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; you have slain them in the day of your anger; you have killed, and not pitied.

80

He gives his cheek to him that strikes him: he is filled full with reproach.

82

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.

83

He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne it upon him.

84

The Lord has swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; he has brought them down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and its princes.

85

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,

86

You have 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 cared for and brought up has my enemy consumed.

87

Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwells in the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto you: you shall be drunk, and shall make yourself naked.

88

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 nations.

89

Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no relief; let not your eyes rest.

90

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

92

He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.

94

The joy of our heart has ceased; our dance has turned into mourning.

95

They took the young men to grind, and the children stagger under loads of wood.

96

Princes were hung up by their hands: the faces of elders were not honored.

97

The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry you away into captivity: he will punish your iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover your sins.

98

They cried unto them, Depart; it is unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the nations, They shall no more sojourn there.

99

The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaks it unto them.

100

As for us, our eyes as yet failed, watching for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.

101

Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.

102

The anger of the LORD has scattered them; he will no longer regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favored not the elders.

103

Even the jackals draw out the breast, they nurse their young ones: the daughter of my people has become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.

104

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

105

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.

106

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

107

But you have utterly rejected us; you are very angry against us.

110

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

111

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

112

The crown has fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!

115

We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.

117

We have drunk our water at a price; our wood is sold unto us.

118

She weeps bitterly in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies.

119

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

123

But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.

124

To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,

125

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

126

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

127

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

128

To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,

129

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

130

You drew near in the day that I called upon you: you said, Fear not.

131

To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approves not.

132

You have covered with anger, and persecuted us: you have slain, you have not pitied.

133

You have made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.

134

My eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.

135

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

136

O Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul; you have redeemed my life.

137

My enemies chased me hard, like a bird, without cause.

139

My eye flows down, and ceases not, without any intermission,

140

You have covered yourself with a cloud, that our prayer should not pass through.

141

All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

142

Fear and a snare has come upon us, desolation and destruction.

143

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

144

Render unto them a recompense, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

145

The lips of those that rose up against me, and their whispering against me all the day.

146

You have heard my voice: hide not your ear at my breathing, at my cry.

147

Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.

148

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

149

Till the LORD looks down, and beholds from heaven.

150

You have heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their plots against me;

151

Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their music.

152

You have seen all their vengeance and all their plots against me.

153

Give them sorrow of heart, your curse unto them.

154

O LORD, you have seen my wrong: judge you my cause.