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\par }{\MT Lamentations
\par }{\MTB of Jeremiah

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}See
her
seated
by herself,
the
town
which
was
full
of
people! She
who
was
great
among
the
nations
has
become
like
a
widow! She
who
was
a
princess
among
the countries
has
come
under
the yoke
of
forced work!
\VS{2}She
is sorrowing
bitterly
in
the
night,
and
her face
is wet
with
weeping;
among
all
her
lovers she
has
no
comforter:
all
her
friends
have
been false
to
her,
they
have
become
her haters.
\VS{3}Judah
has
been
taken
away
as
a prisoner
because
of trouble
and hard
work;
her living-place
is
among
the
nations,
there
is
no
rest
for
her:
all
her attackers
have
overtaken
her
in
a narrow
place.
\VS{4}The
ways
of
Zion
are sad,
because
no
one
comes
to
the holy
meeting;
all
her doorways
are
made
waste,
her
priests
are breathing
out sorrow:
her
virgins
are troubled,
and
it
is
bitter
for
her.
\VS{5}Those
who
are
against
her
have
become
the
head, everything
goes well
for
her haters;
for
the
Lord
has sent
sorrow
on
her
because
of
the
great
number
of
her sins:
her young
children
have
gone
away
as
prisoners
before
the attacker.
\VS{6}And
all
her glory
has
gone
from
the
daughter
of Zion:
her
rulers
have
become
like harts
with
no
place
for food,
and
they
have
gone
in
flight
without
strength
before
the attacker.
\VS{7}Jerusalem keeps
in
mind,
in
the
days
of
her
sorrow
and
of
her wanderings,
all
the desired
things
which
were hers
in
days
gone
by;
when
her
people
came
into
the
power
of
her hater
and
she
had
no
helper,
her attackers
saw
their desire effected
on
her
and
made
sport
of
her destruction.
\VS{8}Great
is
the
sin
of
Jerusalem;
for
this
cause
she
has
become
an
unclean
thing:
all
those
who
gave
her honour
are
looking
down
on
her,
because
they
have
seen
her
shame:
now
truly, breathing
out grief,
she
is
turned
back.
\VS{9}In
her
skirts
were
her
unclean ways;
she gave
no
thought
to
her
end;
and
her
fall
has
been
a wonder;
she
has
no
comforter:
see
her sorrow,
O
Lord;
for
the attacker
is
lifted
up.
\VS{10}The
hand
of
her hater
is
stretched
out
over
all
her desired
things;
for
she
has
seen
that
the
nations
have
come
into
her
holy
place,
about
whom
you
gave
orders
that
they
were
not
to
come
into
the meeting
of
your
people.
\VS{11}Breathing
out grief
all
her
people
are
looking
for
bread;
they
have
given
their desired
things
for
food
to
give
them
life:
see,
O
Lord,
and
take
note;
for
she
has
become
a
thing
of shame.
\VS{12}Come
to
me,
all
you
who
go
by!
Keep
your eyes
on
me,
and
see
if
there
is
any
pain
like
the
pain
of
my wound,
which
the
Lord
has sent
on
me
in
the
day
of
his
burning
wrath.
\VS{13}From
on
high
he
has
sent
fire
into
my
bones,
and
it
has overcome
them:
his
net
is
stretched
out
for
my
feet,
I am
turned
back
by
him;
he
has
made
me waste
and feeble
all
the
day.
\VS{14}A watch
is
kept
on
my sins;
they
are joined
together
by
his
hand,
they
have
come
on
to
my
neck;
he
has
made
my
strength
give
way:
the
Lord
has
given
me
up
into
the
hands
of
those
against whom
I
have
no
power.
\VS{15}The
Lord
has
made sport
of
all
my
men
of war
in
me,
he
has got
men
together
against
me
to send
destruction
on
my
young
men:
the
virgin
daughter
of
Judah
has
been
crushed
like grapes
under
the feet
of
the
Lord.
\VS{16}For
these
things
I
am
weeping;
my
eye
is streaming
with
water;
because
the
comforter
who
might
give
me new
life
is
far
from
me:
my
children
are
made
waste,
because
the hater
is strong.
\VS{17}Zion's
hands
are outstretched; she
has
no
comforter;
the
Lord
has
given
orders
to
the attackers
of
Jacob
round
about
him:
Jerusalem
has
become
like
an
unclean
thing
among
them.
\VS{18}The
Lord
is upright;
for
I
have
gone
against
his orders:
give ear,
now,
all
you
peoples,
and
see
my
pain,
my
virgins
and
my
young
men
have
gone
away
as
prisoners.
\VS{19}I
sent
for
my
lovers,
but
they
were false
to
me:
my
priests
and
my responsible
men
were breathing
their
last
breath
in
the
town,
while
they
were
looking
for
food
to
give
them new
life.
\VS{20}See,
O
Lord,
for
I
am
in
trouble;
the inmost
parts
of
my
body
are
deeply moved;
my
heart
is
turned
in
me;
for
I
have
been uncontrolled:
outside
the
children
are put
to
the
sword,
and
in
the
house
there
is
death.
\VS{21}Give ear
to
the voice
of
my grief;
I
have
no
comforter;
all
my haters
have news
of
my troubles,
they
are
glad
because
you
have
done
it:
let
the
day
of
fate
come
when
they
will
be
like
me.
\VS{22}Let
all
their evil-doing
come
before
you;
do
to
them
as
you
have
done
to
me
for
all
my sins:
for loud
is
the sound
of
my grief,
and
the strength
of
my
heart
is
gone.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}How
has
the
daughter
of
Zion
been
covered
with
a
cloud
by
the
Lord
in
his
wrath!
he
has sent
down
from
heaven
to
earth
the
glory
of
Israel,
and
has
not kept
in
memory
the resting-place
of
his
feet
in
the
day
of
his
wrath.
\VS{2}The
Lord
has given
up
to destruction
all
the living-places
of
Jacob
without
pity; pulling
down
in
his
wrath
the strong
places
of
the
daughter
of
Judah, stretching
out
on
the
earth
the
wounded,
even
her king
and
her
rulers.
\VS{3}In
his
burning
wrath
every
horn
of
Israel
has
been
cut
off;
his
right
hand
has
been
turned
back
before
the attacker:
he
has
put
a
fire
in
Jacob, causing destruction
round
about.
\VS{4}His
bow
has
been
bent
for
the attack,
he
has taken
his
place
with
his
hand ready,
in
his hate
he
has put
to death
all
who
were pleasing
to
the
eye:
on
the
tent
of
the
daughter
of
Zion
he
has let loose
his passion
like
fire.
\VS{5}The
Lord
has
become
like
one fighting
against
her, sending
destruction
on
Israel;
he
has sent
destruction
on
all
her great houses,
making
waste
his strong
places: increasing
the grief
and
the sorrow
of
the
daughter
of
Judah.
\VS{6}And
he
has
violently taken away
his tent,
as
from
a
garden;
he
has made
waste
his meeting-place:
the
Lord
has taken away
the memory
of
feast
and
Sabbath
in
Zion,
and
in
the passion
of
his
wrath
he
is against
king
and
priest.
\VS{7}The
Lord
has
given
up
his
altar
and
has
been
turned
in hate
from
his
holy
place;
he
has
given
up
into
the
hands
of
the attacker
the
walls
of
her great
houses:
their
voices
have
been loud
in
the
house
of
the
Lord
as
in
the
day
of
a
holy
meeting.
\VS{8}It
is
the Lord's purpose
to
make
waste
the
wall
of
the
daughter
of
Zion;
his line
has
been
stretched
out,
he
has
not kept
back
his
hand
from
destruction:
he
has
sent sorrow
on tower
and
wall,
they
have
become feeble
together.
\VS{9}Her doors
have
gone
down
into
the
earth;
he
has sent
destruction
on
her locks:
her
king
and
her
princes
are
among
the
nations
where
the
law
is
not;
even
her
prophets
have
had
no
vision
from
the
Lord.
\VS{10}The
responsible
men
of
the
daughter
of
Zion
are
seated
on
the
earth without
a word;
they
have
put
dust
on
their
heads,
they
are
clothed
in haircloth:
the
heads
of
the
virgins
of
Jerusalem
are bent
down
to
the
earth.
\VS{11}My
eyes
are wasted
with weeping,
the inmost
parts
of
my
body
are deeply moved,
my inner
parts
are drained
out
on
the
earth,
for
the
destruction
of
the
daughter
of
my
people;
because
of
the young
children
and babies
at
the breast
who
are falling without strength
in
the
open
squares
of
the
town.
\VS{12}They
say
to
their
mothers,
Where
is
grain
and
wine?
when
they
are falling
like
the
wounded
in
the
open
squares
of
the
town,
when
their
life
is drained
out
on
their mother's breast.
\VS{13}What example
am
I
to
give
you?
what comparison
am
I
to
make
for
you,
O
daughter
of
Jerusalem?
what
am
I
to
make
equal
to
you,
so
that
I
may
give
you
comfort,
O
virgin
daughter
of
Zion?
for
your
destruction
is
great
like
the
sea:
who
is able
to
make
you well?
\VS{14}The
visions which
your
prophets
have
seen
for
you
are
false
and foolish;
they
have
not
made clear
to
you
your
sin
so
that
your fate might
be changed:
but
they
have
seen
for
you
false words, driving
you
away.
\VS{15}All
who
go
by make
a noise
with
their
hands
at
you;
they make hisses, shaking
their
heads
at
the
daughter
of
Jerusalem,
and
saying,
Is
this
the
town which
was
the crown
of
everything
beautiful,
the
joy
of
all
the
earth?
\VS{16}All
your haters
are
opening
their
mouths
wide
against
you;
making hisses
and whistling
through
their
teeth,
they
say,
We
have
made
a meal
of
her:
certainly
this
is
the
day
we
have
been
looking
for;
it
has
come,
we
have
seen
it.
\VS{17}The
Lord
has
done
that
which
was
his
purpose;
he
has
put
into
force
the
orders
which
he
gave
in
the
days
which
are past; pulling
down
without
pity,
he
has
made
your hater
glad
over
you,
lifting
up
the
horn
of
those
who
were
against
you.
\VS{18}Let
your
cry
go
up
to
the
Lord:
O
wall
of
the
daughter
of
Zion,
let
your weeping
be
flowing
down
like
a
stream
day
and
night;
give
yourself
no rest,
let
not
your
eyes keep
back
the drops
of sorrow.
\VS{19}Up!
give
cries
in
the
night,
at
the starting
of
the night-watches;
let
your
heart
be
flowing
out
like
water
before
the
face
of
the
Lord, lifting
up
your
hands
to
him
for
the
life
of
your young
children
who
are falling
down, feeble
for need
of food,
at
the
top
of
every
street.
\VS{20}Look!
O
Lord,
see
to
whom
you
have done
this!
Are
the
women
to
take
as
their
food
the
fruit
of
their bodies,
the
children
who
are folded
in
their arms?
are
the
priest
and
the
prophet
to
be put
to death
in
the
holy
place
of
the
Lord?
\VS{21}The
young
men
and
the
old
are stretched
on
the
earth
in
the
streets;
my
virgins
and
my
young
men
have
been put
to
the
sword:
you
have sent death
on
them
in
the
day
of
your
wrath, causing death
without
pity.
\VS{22}As
in
the
day
of
a holy
meeting
you
have
made fears
come
round
me
on
every
side,
and
no
one got
away
or
was kept safe
in
the
day
of
the Lord's
wrath:
those
who
were folded
in
my arms,
whom
I
took care
of,
have
been sent
to
their
destruction
by
my hater.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
am
the
man
who has
seen trouble
by
the
rod
of
his
wrath.
\VS{2}By
him
I
have
been made
to go
in
the
dark
where there
is
no
light.
\VS{3}Truly
against
me
his
hand
has
been
turned
again
and
again
all
the
day.
\VS{4}My
flesh
and
my
skin have been used up by him
and
my
bones
broken.
\VS{5}He has put
up
a wall
against
me, shutting
me
in
with bitter
sorrow.
\VS{6}He has kept
me
in
dark
places,
like those
who have
been
long
dead.
\VS{7}He
has
put
a
wall round
me,
so
that
I am
not able
to
go
out;
he
has
made great
the weight
of
my
chain.
\VS{8}Even
when
I send
up
a
cry
for
help,
he keeps
my
prayer shut
out.
\VS{9}He has put up a
wall
of
cut
stones
about
my
ways, he has made
my
roads twisted.
\VS{10}He
is
like
a
bear waiting
for me,
like
a
lion
in
secret
places.
\VS{11}By
him
my
ways have been
turned
on one side
and
I have been pulled
in bits;
he has
made
me waste.
\VS{12}With
his
bow
bent, he has made
me
the mark for
his
arrows.
\VS{13}He
has let loose
his
arrows
into
the
inmost
parts
of
my body.
\VS{14}I
have
become
the
sport
of
all
the
peoples;
I
am
their
song
all
the
day.
\VS{15}He has
made my life nothing but pain, he has given
me
the
bitter root
in
full measure.
\VS{16}By him
my
teeth have been
broken
with
crushed stones,
and
I am bent low
in the
dust.
\VS{17}My
soul
is sent far away
from
peace,
I
have no
more memory
of
good.
\VS{18}And
I
said,
My
strength
is cut off,
and
my
hope
from
the
Lord.
\VS{19}Keep
in
mind
my trouble
and
my
wandering,
the bitter root
and
the
poison.
\VS{20}My
soul still keeps
the memory
of
them;
and
is bent
down
in
me.
\VS{21}This
I keep
in
mind,
and
because
of
this
I
have
hope.
\VS{22}It
is
through
the Lord's
love
that
we
have
not
come
to
destruction,
because
his
mercies
have
no limit.
\VS{23}They are
new
every
morning;
great is your good
faith.
\VS{24}I
said
to
myself,
The
Lord
is
my heritage;
and
because
of
this
I
will
have
hope
in
him.
\VS{25}The
Lord
is
good
to
those
who
are waiting
for
him,
to
the
soul which
is
looking
for
him.
\VS{26}It
is
good
to go
on hoping
and quietly waiting
for
the
salvation
of
the
Lord.
\VS{27}It
is
good
for
a
man
to undergo
the
yoke
when
he
is young.
\VS{28}Let
him
be
seated
by
himself, saying nothing,
because
he
has put
it
on
him.
\VS{29}Let
him
put
his
mouth
in
the
dust,
if
by chance
there
may
be
hope.
\VS{30}Let
his face
be
turned
to
him
who
gives
him
blows;
let
him
be
full
of
shame.
\VS{31}For
the
Lord
does
not give
a man up
for
ever.
\VS{32}For
though
he sends
grief, still
he
will
have
pity
in
the full measure
of
his
love.
\VS{33}For
he
has
no pleasure
in troubling
and causing
grief
to
the
children
of
men.
\VS{34}In
a man's
crushing
under
his
feet
all
the
prisoners
of
the
earth,
\VS{35}In
his
turning
away
the
right
of
a
man
before
the
face
of
the Most
High.
\VS{36}In
his doing wrong
to
a
man
in
his
cause,
the
Lord
has
no
pleasure.
\VS{37}Who
is able
to
say
a
thing,
and
give effect
to
it,
if
it
has
not
been
ordered
by
the
Lord?
\VS{38}Do
not
evil
and
good
come
from
the
mouth
of
the Most High?
\VS{39}What protest
may
a
living
man make,
even
a
man
about
the punishment
of
his
sin?
\VS{40}Let
us
make
search
and
put
our
ways
to
the test,
turning
again
to
the
Lord;
\VS{41}Lifting
up
our
hearts
with
our
hands
to
God
in
the
heavens.
\VS{42}We
have done wrong
and
gone
against
your law;
we
have
not
had
your forgiveness.
\VS{43}Covering yourself
with
wrath
you
have
gone
after us, cutting us off
without
pity;
\VS{44}Covering yourself
with a
cloud,
so
that
prayer may not get
through.
\VS{45}You have
made
us
like waste
and
that
for which there
is no use,
among
the
peoples.
\VS{46}The
mouths
of
all
our haters
are
open
wide
against
us.
\VS{47}Fear
and deep waters
have
come
on us, wasting
and
destruction.
\VS{48}Rivers
of
water
are running
down
from
my
eyes,
for
the
destruction
of
the
daughter
of
my
people.
\VS{49}My
eyes
are streaming
without
stopping,
they
have
no rest,
\VS{50}Till
the Lord's eye
is turned
on
me,
till
he
sees
my trouble
from
heaven.
\VS{51}The Lord
is unkind
to
my
soul,
more
than
all
the
daughters
of
my
town.
\VS{52}They who
are against
me
without
cause have gone hard after
me
as if I was
a
bird;
\VS{53}They have put an end
to
my
life
in
the prison, stoning
me
with
stones.
\VS{54}Waters
were
flowing
over
my
head;
I
said,
I am
cut
off.
\VS{55}I
was making prayer
to
your
name,
O
Lord, out
of
the
lowest prison.
\VS{56}My
voice came
to
you;
let
not
your
ear
be
shut
to
my breathing,
to
my
cry.
\VS{57}You
came
near
in
the
day
when
I
made
my prayer
to
you:
you
said,
Have
no
fear.
\VS{58}O
Lord,
you
have taken up
the
cause
of
my
soul,
you
have made
my
life safe.
\VS{59}O
Lord,
you
have
seen
my wrong;
be
judge
in
my
cause.
\VS{60}You
have
seen
all
the evil rewards
they
have sent
on
me,
and
all
their
designs
against
me.
\VS{61}Their bitter words
have come
to
your ears,
O
Lord,
and
all
their
designs
against
me;
\VS{62}The
lips
of
those
who came
up
against
me,
and
their thoughts
against
me
all
the
day.
\VS{63}Take note
of
them
when they are
seated,
and
when they get
up;
I
am
their
song.
\VS{64}You
will
give
them
their reward,
O
Lord, answering
to
the
work
of
their
hands.
\VS{65}You
will
let
their
hearts
be covered
over
with
your
curse
on
them.
\VS{66}You
will go
after
them
in
wrath,
and put
an end
to
them
from
under
the
heavens
of
the
Lord.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}How
dark
has
the
gold
become!
how
changed
the
best
gold!
the
stones
of
the
holy
place
are dropping
out
at
the
top
of
every
street.
\VS{2}The valued
sons
of
Zion,
whose price
was
the best
gold,
are looked
on
as
vessels
of earth,
the
work
of
the
hands
of
the
potter!
\VS{3}Even
the beasts
of
the waste land
have full
breasts,
they give milk
to
their
young ones:
the
daughter
of
my
people
has become
cruel
like
the
ostriches
in
the waste land.
\VS{4}The
tongue
of
the
child
at
the breast
is fixed
to
the
roof
of
his
mouth
for need
of drink:
the young
children
are crying
out
for
bread,
and
no
man gives
it
to
them.
\VS{5}Those who
were used
to feasting
on delicate
food
are wasted
in
the
streets:
those who
as children
were dressed
in
purple
are stretched
out
on
the dust.
\VS{6}For
the
punishment
of
the
daughter
of
my
people
is
greater
than
the
punishment
of
Sodom, which
was
overturned
suddenly
without
any
hand falling
on
her.
\VS{7}Her holy
ones
were cleaner than
snow, they
were
whiter than
milk, their bodies
were redder than
corals, their form was as the
sapphire:
\VS{8}Their face
is
blacker
than night;
in
the
streets
no
one
has knowledge
of
them:
their
skin
is hanging
on
their
bones,
they
are
dry,
they
have
become
like
wood.
\VS{9}Those who
have
been put
to
the
sword
are
better off
than
those whose death
is
caused
by need
of food;
for
these
come
to death slowly, burned
up
like
the
fruit
of
the
field.
\VS{10}The
hands
of kind-hearted
women
have
been
boiling
their
children;
they
were
their
food
in
the
destruction
of
the
daughter
of
my
people.
\VS{11}The
Lord
has given full effect
to
his passion,
he
has let loose
his
burning
wrath;
he
has made
a
fire
in
Zion, causing
the
destruction
of
its bases.
\VS{12}To
the
kings
of
the
earth
and
to
all
the
people
of
the
world
it
did
not seem possible
that
the attackers
and
the haters
would
go
into
the doors
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{13}It
is
because
of
the
sins
of
her
prophets
and
the evil-doing
of
her
priests,
by whom
the
blood
of
the upright
has been drained
out
in
her.
\VS{14}They
are wandering
like
blind
men
in
the
streets,
they
are made
unclean
with
blood,
so
that
their
robes
may
not
be
touched
by
men.
\VS{15}Away!
unclean!
they
were
crying
out
to
them,
Away!
away!
let there
be
no
touching:
when
they
went
away
in flight
and wandering,
men
said
among
the
nations, There
is
no
further resting-place
for
them.
\VS{16}The
face
of
the
Lord
has sent
them
in all
directions;
he
will
no
longer
take care
of
them:
they
had
no
respect
for
the
priests,
they gave
no honour
to
the
old
men.
\VS{17}Our
eyes
are
still wasting
away
in looking
for
our false
help: we
have
been
watching
for
a
nation unable
to give
salvation.
\VS{18}They
go
after
our
steps
so
that
we
may
not
go
in
our
streets:
our
end
is
near,
our
days
are numbered;
for
our
end
has
come.
\VS{19}Those who
went
after
us
were quicker
than
the
eagles
of
the
heaven, driving
us
before
them
on
the
mountains, waiting secretly
for
us
in
the waste
land.
\VS{20}Our
breath
of
life,
he
on
whom
the holy oil
was put,
was
taken
in
their holes;
of
whom
we
said, Under
his
shade
we
will
be living among
the
nations.
\VS{21}Have
joy
and
be
glad, O
daughter
of
Edom,
living
in
the
land
of
Uz:
the
cup
will
be given
to
you
in
your
turn,
and
you
will
be overcome
with wine
and
your shame
will
be seen.
\VS{22}The
punishment
of
your evil-doing
is
complete, O
daughter
of
Zion;
never
again
will
he
take
you
away
as
a prisoner:
he
will
give
you
the reward
of
your evil-doing, O
daughter
of
Edom;
he
will
let
your
sin
be
uncovered.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Keep
in
mind,
O
Lord,
what
has
come
to
us:
take
note
and
see
our
shame.
\VS{2}Our
heritage
is given up
to men
of
strange lands, our
houses
to those
who
are not our countrymen.
\VS{3}We
are
children
without
fathers,
our
mothers
are
like
widows.
\VS{4}We
give
money
for
a
drink
of
water, we
get
our
wood
for
a
price.
\VS{5}Our attackers
are
on
our
necks: overcome
with weariness, we
have
no
rest.
\VS{6}We
have
given
our
hands
to
the
Egyptians
and
to
the Assyrians
so
that we might
have
enough
bread.
\VS{7}Our
fathers
were sinners
and
are dead;
and
the weight
of
their evil-doing
is
on us.
\VS{8}Servants
are
ruling
over
us,
and
there
is
no
one
to
make
us free
from
their
hands.
\VS{9}We
put
our
lives
in danger
to
get
our
bread,
because
of
the
sword
of
the waste
land.
\VS{10}Our
skin
is heated
like
an
oven
because
of
our
burning
heat
from need
of food.
\VS{11}They took
by force
the
women
in
Zion,
the
virgins
in
the
towns
of
Judah.
\VS{12}Their
hands
put
princes
to death
by
hanging:
the
faces
of
old
men
were
not honoured.
\VS{13}The
young
men
were crushing
the grain,
and
the
boys
were falling
under
the
wood.
\VS{14}The
old
men
are no longer seated in
the doorway,
and
the
music
of
the
young
men has come
to an end.
\VS{15}The
joy
of our
hearts
is ended; our
dancing
is
changed
into sorrow.
\VS{16}The
crown
has been taken
from
our
head: sorrow
is ours,
for
we are sinners.
\VS{17}Because
of
this
our
hearts
are feeble;
for
these
things
our
eyes
are
dark;
\VS{18}Because
of
the
mountain
of
Zion
which
is
a
waste;
jackals
go
over
it.
\VS{19}You,
O
Lord,
are
seated
as
King
for
ever;
the
seat
of
your power
is
eternal.
\VS{20}Why
have
we gone
from
your memory
for
ever?
why
have
you been turned away
from
us
for
so
long?
\VS{21}Make
us
come
back
to
you,
O
Lord,
and let
us
be
turned;
make
our
days new
again
as
in
the past.
\VS{22}But
you
have quite given
us
up;
you are full
of
wrath
against
us.
\par }