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ULT LAM Chapter 1

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1 ALEPH

1 How she sits alone,

the city that was great with people!

She has become like a widow

who was great among the nations.

The princess among the provinces

has become a forced laborer.

BETH

2 She weeps bitterly in the night,

and her tears are on her cheeks.

She has no comforter

from all those who love her.

All her companions have betrayed her;

they have become enemies to her.

GIMEL

3 Judah has gone into exile

from affliction and from the greatness of forced labor.

She herself has settled among the nations;

she has not found a resting place.

All her pursuers have overtaken her

between the narrow passes.

DALETH

4 The roads of Zion are mourning

because no one is coming to the appointed feast.

All her gates are desolate;

her priests are groaning.

Her young women are grieving,

and it is bitter to her.

5 Her adversaries have become the head;

her enemies are prospering,

for Yahweh has afflicted her

over the greatness of her transgressions.

Her children have gone away

as captives before the adversary.

WAW

6 And from the daughter of Zion

all her majesty has departed.

Her princes have become like deer

that have found no pasture.

And they have walked without strength

before the pursuer.

ZAYIN

7 Jerusalem remembered

in the days of her affliction and of her wanderings,

all her precious things

that were from the days of old.

When her people fell into the hand of the adversary

and there was no helper for her,

the adversaries saw her;

they laughed over her collapse.

HETH

8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned;

therefore she has become an abhorrence.

All who honored her have despised her,

because they have seen her nakedness.

And she herself has groaned

and turned backward.

TETH

9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts;

she did not remember her end.

And she went down astonishingly;

there is no comforter for her.

“See, Yahweh, my affliction,

for the enemy has magnified himself.”

YODH

10 The adversary has spread out his hand

over all her precious things,

for she has seen nations

entering her sanctuary—

those whom you commanded

should not enter your assembly.

KAPH

11 All her people are groaning,

seeking bread.

They have given their precious things for food

to restore life.

“See, Yahweh, and look,

for I have become despised.”

LAMEDH

12 “Is it nothing to you,

all you who pass along the way?

Look and see

if there is any pain like my pain

that has been done to me,

which Yahweh has inflicted

on the day of his burning anger.

MEM

13 From on high he sent fire

into my bones, and it ruled over them.

He spread a net for my feet;

he turned me back.

He made me desolate,

faint all the day.

NUN

14 The yoke of my transgressions was bound fast,

they are intertwined by his hand;

they have come up onto my neck.

He has caused my strength to stumble;

the Lord has given me into the hands

of those I am not able to rise against.

SAMEKH

15 The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst.

He has called an appointed time against me

to crush my young men.

The Lord has trodden the winepress

for the virgin daughter of Judah.

AYIN

16 Over these things I, I am weeping;

my eye, my eye is running down with water,

for a comforter who restores my life

is far from me.

My sons are desolate

because the enemy has prevailed.”

17 Zion has spread out her hands;

there is no comforter for her.

Yahweh has commanded against Jacob

that his adversaries, should be around him.

Jerusalem has become

an abhorrence among them.

TSADHE

18 “Yahweh, is righteous,

for I have rebelled against his mouth.

Hear, please, all peoples,

and see my pain.

My young women and my young men

have gone into captivity.

QOPH

19 I called to those who love me;

they, they deceived me.

My priests and my elders

expired in the city,

when they were seeking food for themselves

to restore their life.

RESH

20 See, Yahweh, for I am in distress;

my inward parts are churning;

my heart has been overturned within me,

for I have bitterly rebelled.

Outside the sword bereaves;

inside, it is like death.

SIN

21 They have heard that I am groaning;

there is no comforter for me.

All my enemies have heard of my calamity;

they have rejoiced, because you have done it.

You have brought the day you proclaimed,

and let them be like me.

TAW

22 Let all their evil come before you,

and deal with them

as you have dealt with me

over all my transgressions,

for my groaning, is many

and my heart, is faint.”

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