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

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}How doth
the
city
sit solitary [that]
was
full
of
people! She
that
was
great
among
the
nations
is
become
as
a
widow;
the
princess
among
the
provinces
is
become tributary!
\VS{2}She weepeth sore
in
the
night,
and
her
tears
are
on
her
cheeks;
among
all
her
lovers she hath
no
comforter;
all
her
friends
have
dealt
treacherously
with
her,
they
are
become
her
enemies.
\VS{3}Judah
is
gone
into
captivity
because
of affliction,
and
because
of
great
servitude;
she dwelleth
among
the
nations,
she findeth
no
rest:
all
her
pursuers
have
overtaken
her
within
the straits.
\VS{4}The
ways
of
Zion
do
mourn,
because
none
come
to
the solemn
assembly:
all
her
gates
are
desolate;
her
priests
sigh,
her
virgins
are
in
grief;
and
as
for
her,
she
is
in
bitterness.
\VS{5}Her adversaries
have
become
the
head,
her
enemies
prosper;
for
Jehovah hath
afflicted
her
for
the
multitude
of
her
transgressions:
her
children
are
gone
into
captivity
before
the adversary.
\VS{6}And
from
the
daughter
of Zion
all
her splendour
is
departed:
her
princes
are
become
like harts
that
find
no
pasture;
and
they
are
gone
without
strength
before
the
pursuer.
\VS{7}In
the
days
of
her affliction
and
of
her wanderings,
since
her
people
fell
into
the
hand
of
an adversary,
and
none
did
help
her,
Jerusalem remembereth
all
her
precious
things
which
she
had
in
the
days
of old:
the adversaries
have
seen
her,
they
mock
at
her
ruin.
\VS{8}Jerusalem hath grievously
sinned;
therefore
is
she removed
as
an impurity:
all
that honoured
her despise
her
because
they
have
seen
her
nakedness;
and
she sigheth,
and turneth
backward.
\VS{9}Her
impurity
was
in
her
skirts,
she
remembered
not
her
latter
end;
and
she
came
down wonderfully:
she hath
no
comforter.
Jehovah,
behold
my affliction;
for
the
enemy hath
magnified
himself.
\VS{10}The adversary hath
spread
out
his
hand
upon
all
her
precious
things;
for
she hath
seen
the
nations
enter
into
her
sanctuary,
concerning
whom thou didst
command
that
they
should
not
enter
into thy
congregation.
\VS{11}All
her
people
sigh,
they
seek
bread;
they
have
given
their
precious
things
for
food
to revive [their]
soul.
See,
Jehovah,
and
consider,
for
I
am
become vile.
\VS{12}Is
it
nothing
to
you,
all ye
that
pass
by?
Behold,
and
see
if
there
be
any
sorrow
like unto
my
sorrow,
which
is
done unto
me,
whom
Jehovah hath
afflicted
in
the
day
of
his
fierce
anger.
\VS{13}From
on
high hath
he
sent
fire
into
my
bones,
and
it prevaileth
against
them;
he hath
spread
a
net
for
my
feet;
he hath
turned
me
back;
he hath
made
me
desolate [and]
faint
all
the
day.
\VS{14}The
yoke
of
my
transgressions
is
bound
by
his
hand:
they
are wreathed,
they
are
come
up
upon
my
neck;
he hath
made
my
strength
to
fail;
the
Lord hath
delivered
me
into
hands
out
of which
I am
not
able
to
rise
up.
\VS{15}The
Lord hath cast
down
all
my
mighty
men
in
the
midst
of
me;
he hath
called
an
assembly
against
me
to
crush
my
young
men;
the
Lord hath
trodden
as
a winepress
the
virgin
daughter
of
Judah.
\VS{16}For
these
things
I
weep;
mine
eye,
mine
eye runneth
down
with
water:
for
the
comforter
that
should revive
my
soul
is
far
from
me;
my
children
are
desolate,
for
the
enemy hath
prevailed.
\VS{17}Zion spreadeth forth
her
hands;
there
is
none
to
comfort
her;
Jehovah hath
commanded
concerning
Jacob, [that]
his adversaries [should
be]
round
about
him;
Jerusalem
is
as
an
impurity
among
them.
\VS{18}Jehovah
is
righteous;
for
I
have
rebelled
against
his
commandment.
Hear,
I
pray
you,
all ye
peoples,
and
behold
my
sorrow.
My
virgins
and
my
young
men
are
gone
into
captivity.
\VS{19}I
called
for
my
lovers,
they
have
deceived
me;
my
priests
and mine
elders
have expired
in
the
city,
while
they
sought
them
food
to revive
their
soul.
\VS{20}See,
Jehovah,
for
I
am
in
distress,
my
bowels
are troubled;
my
heart
is
turned
within
me,
for
I
have grievously
rebelled: without,
the
sword hath
bereaved [me],
within,
it
is
as
death.
\VS{21}They
have
heard
that
I
sigh:
I
have
no
comforter:
all mine
enemies
have
heard
of
my
calamity;
they
are
glad
that thou hast
done
it. Thou wilt
bring
the
day
that thou hast
called,
and
they
shall
be
like unto
me.
\VS{22}Let
all
their
wickedness
come
before thee;
and
do unto
them,
as thou hast
done unto
me
for
all
my
transgressions:
for
my sighs
are
many,
and
my
heart
is
faint.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}How hath
the
Lord
in
his
anger
covered
the
daughter
of
Zion
with
a
cloud!
He hath
cast
down
from
the
heavens unto
the
earth
the
beauty
of
Israel,
and
remembered
not
his footstool
in
the
day
of
his
anger.
\VS{2}The
Lord hath
swallowed
up
all
the dwellings
of
Jacob,
and hath
not
spared;
he hath
thrown
down
in
his
wrath
the
strongholds
of
the
daughter
of
Judah:
he hath
brought [them]
down
to
the
ground;
he hath
profaned
the
kingdom
and
the
princes thereof.
\VS{3}He hath
cut
off
in
fierce
anger
all
the
horn
of
Israel:
he hath withdrawn
his
right
hand
from
before
the
enemy;
and
he
burned
up
Jacob
like
a
flaming
fire,
devouring
round
about.
\VS{4}He hath
bent
his
bow
like an
enemy;
he
stood
with
his
right
hand
as an adversary,
and hath
slain
all
that
was
pleasant
to
the
eye:
in
the
tent
of
the
daughter
of
Zion,
he hath
poured
out
his
fury
like
fire.
\VS{5}The
Lord
is
become
as
an
enemy:
he hath
swallowed
up
Israel;
he hath
swallowed
up
all
her
palaces;
he hath
destroyed
his
strongholds,
and hath
multiplied
in
the
daughter
of
Judah
mourning
and lamentation.
\VS{6}And
he hath
violently cast
down
his enclosure
as
a
garden;
he hath
destroyed
his
place
of
assembly:
Jehovah hath caused
set
feast
and
sabbath
to
be
forgotten
in
Zion,
and hath
despised
in
the
indignation
of
his
anger
king
and
priest.
\VS{7}The
Lord hath
cast
off
his
altar,
he hath
rejected
his
sanctuary;
he hath
given
up
into
the
hand
of
the
enemy
the
walls
of
her
palaces:
they
have
made
a
noise
in
the
house
of
Jehovah,
as
on
the
day
of
a
set
feast.
\VS{8}Jehovah hath
purposed
to
destroy
the
wall
of
the
daughter
of
Zion:
he hath
stretched
out
the line,
he hath
not withdrawn
his
hand
from
destroying;
and
he hath
made
the
rampart
and
the
wall
to
lament:
they
languish
together.
\VS{9}Her
gates
are
sunk
into
the
ground;
he hath
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
Jehovah.
\VS{10}The
elders
of
the
daughter
of
Zion
sit
upon
the
ground,
they keep silence;
they
have
cast
dust
upon
their
heads,
they
have
girded
themselves
with
sackcloth:
the
virgins
of
Jerusalem hang
down
their
head
to
the
ground.
\VS{11}Mine
eyes
are
consumed
with
tears,
my
bowels
are troubled;
my
liver
is
poured
upon
the
earth,
because
of
the
ruin
of
the
daughter
of
my
people;
because
infant
and suckling swoon
in
the
streets
of
the
city.
\VS{12}They
say
to
their
mothers,
Where
is corn
and
wine?
when
they swoon
as
the
wounded
in
the
streets
of
the
city;
when
they
pour
out
their
soul
into
their mothers'
bosom.
\VS{13}What
shall
I
take
to witness
for thee?
what
shall
I
liken unto thee,
daughter
of
Jerusalem?
What
shall
I
equal
to thee,
that
I
may
comfort thee,
virgin
daughter
of
Zion?
For thy
ruin
is
great
as
the
sea:
who
will
heal thee?
\VS{14}Thy
prophets
have
seen
vanity
and folly
for thee;
and
they
have
not
revealed thine
iniquity,
to
turn
away thy
captivity;
but
have
seen
for thee burdens
of
falsehood
and causes
of expulsion.
\VS{15}All
that
pass
by
clap [their]
hands
at thee;
they
hiss
and
shake
their
head
at
the
daughter
of
Jerusalem:
Is
this
the
city which
they
called,
The
perfection
of
beauty,
The
joy
of
the
whole
earth?
\VS{16}All thine
enemies
open
their
mouth
against thee,
they
hiss
and
gnash
the
teeth:
they
say,
We
have
swallowed [her]
up;
this
is forsooth
the
day
that
we
looked
for:
we
have
found,
we
have
seen [it].
\VS{17}Jehovah hath
done
what
he
had devised;
he hath fulfilled
his
word
which
he
had
commanded
from
the
days
of old:
he hath
thrown
down,
and hath
not
spared,
and
he hath
caused
the
enemy
to
rejoice
over thee;
he hath
set
up
the
horn
of thine adversaries.
\VS{18}Their
heart
cried unto
the
Lord.
O
wall
of
the
daughter
of
Zion,
let
tears
run
down
like
a torrent
day
and
night:
give thyself
no respite;
let
not
the apple
of thine
eye rest.
\VS{19}Arise,
cry
out
in
the
night,
in
the
beginning
of
the
watches;
pour
out thy
heart
like
water
before
the
face
of
the
Lord:
lift
up thy
hands
toward
him
for
the
life
of thy young
children,
who faint
from
hunger
at
the
top
of
all
the
streets.
\VS{20}See,
Jehovah,
and
consider
to
whom thou hast done
this!
Shall
the
women
eat
their
fruit,
the
infants
that
they nursed?
Shall
priest
and
prophet
be
slain
in
the
sanctuary
of
the
Lord?
\VS{21}The
child
and
the
old
man
lie
on
the
ground
in
the
streets;
my
virgins
and
my
young
men
are
fallen
by
the
sword: thou hast
slain [them]
in
the
day
of thine
anger; thou hast
killed, thou hast
not
spared.
\VS{22}Thou hast
called
up,
as
on
the
day
of
a
set
feast,
my
terrors
on
every
side;
and
in
the
day
of Jehovah's
anger
there
was
none
that escaped
or
remained:
those
that
I
have nursed
and
brought
up hath mine
enemy
consumed.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}I
am
the
man
that hath
seen
affliction
by
the
rod
of
his
wrath.
\VS{2}Me hath
he
led,
and
brought into
darkness,
and
not into
light.
\VS{3}Surely
against
me hath
he
turned
again
and
again
his
hand
all
the
day.
\VS{4}My
flesh
and
my
skin hath he
wasted
away, he hath
broken
my
bones.
\VS{5}He hath
built
against
me,
and encompassed [me]
with
gall
and toil.
\VS{6}He hath made
me
to
dwell
in
dark
places
as those
that have
been
long
dead.
\VS{7}He hath hedged
me
about
that
I
cannot
get
out:
he hath
made
my
chain
heavy.
\VS{8}Even
when
I
cry
and
shout,
he shutteth
out
my
prayer.
\VS{9}He hath inclosed
my
ways
with
hewn
stone, he hath made
my
paths crooked.
\VS{10}He
is unto me [as]
a
bear
lying
in
wait,
a
lion
in
secret
places.
\VS{11}He hath
turned
aside
my
ways,
and pulled
me
in
pieces;
he hath
made
me
desolate.
\VS{12}He hath
bent
his
bow,
and
set
me as a mark for
the
arrow.
\VS{13}He hath caused
the
arrows
of
his
quiver
to
enter
into
my reins.
\VS{14}I
am
become
a derision
to
all
my
people;
their
song
all
the
day.
\VS{15}He hath sated
me
with
bitterness, he hath
made
me
drunk
with
wormwood.
\VS{16}He hath also
broken
my
teeth
with
gravel stones, he hath covered me
with
ashes.
\VS{17}And thou hast removed
my
soul far off
from
peace:
I
have
forgotten
prosperity.
\VS{18}And
I
said,
My
strength
is
perished,
and
my
hope
in
Jehovah.
\VS{19}Remember thou mine affliction
and
my
wandering,
the
wormwood
and
the
gall.
\VS{20}My
soul hath [them] constantly
in
remembrance,
and
is humbled
in
me.
\VS{21}—
This
I
recall
to
heart,
therefore
have
I
hope.
\VS{22}It
is
of Jehovah's loving-kindness
we
are
not
consumed,
because
his
compassions
fail
not;
\VS{23}they are
new
every
morning:
great is thy
faithfulness.
\VS{24}Jehovah
is
my
portion, saith
my
soul;
therefore
will
I
hope
in
him.
\VS{25}Jehovah
is
good unto
them
that
wait
for
him,
to
the
soul [that] seeketh
him.
\VS{26}It
is
good
that
one
should both wait,
and
that
in silence,
for
the
salvation
of
Jehovah.
\VS{27}It
is
good
for
a
man
that
he
bear
the
yoke
in
his
youth:
\VS{28}He sitteth solitary
and keepeth silence,
because
he hath
laid
it
upon
him;
\VS{29}he putteth
his
mouth
in
the
dust,
if
so
be
there
may
be
hope;
\VS{30}he giveth
his
cheek
to
him
that smiteth
him;
he is
filled
full
with
reproach.
\VS{31}For
the
Lord
will
not cast off
for
ever;
\VS{32}but
if
he
have
caused
grief,
he
will
have
compassion according
to
the
multitude
of
his loving-kindnesses:
\VS{33}for
he doth
not willingly
afflict
or
grieve
the
children
of
men.
\VS{34}To
crush
under
foot
all
the
prisoners
of
the
earth,
\VS{35}to
turn
aside
the
right
of
a
man
before
the
face
of
the Most
High,
\VS{36}to wrong
a
man
in
his
cause, —
will
not
the
Lord
see
it?
\VS{37}Who
is
he
that saith,
and
there cometh
to
pass,
what
the
Lord hath
not
commanded?
\VS{38}Out
of
the
mouth
of
the Most High doth
not there
proceed
evil
and
good?
\VS{39}Wherefore doth
a
living
man
complain,
a
man
for
the punishment
of
his
sins?
\VS{40}Let
us
search
and try
our
ways,
and
turn
again
to
Jehovah.
\VS{41}Let
us
lift
up
our
heart
with [our]
hands unto
\FTNT{*}{{\FR 3:41 }

El|strong="H0410"}God
in
the
heavens.
\VS{42}We
have
transgressed
and
have
rebelled: thou hast
not
pardoned.
\VS{43}Thou hast covered thyself
with
anger,
and
pursued us; thou hast
slain, thou hast
not
spared.
\VS{44}Thou hast covered thyself
with a
cloud,
that
prayer should not
pass
through.
\VS{45}Thou hast
made
us
the offscouring
and
refuse
in
the
midst
of
the
peoples.
\VS{46}All
our
enemies
have
opened
their
mouth
against
us.
\VS{47}Fear
and
the
pit
are
come
upon us,
devastation
and
ruin.
\VS{48}Mine
eye runneth
down
with
streams
of
water
for
the
ruin
of
the
daughter
of
my
people.
\VS{49}Mine
eye poureth
down,
and ceaseth
not,
without
any intermission,
\VS{50}till
Jehovah
look
down
and
behold
from
the
heavens.
\VS{51}Mine
eye affecteth
my
soul,
because
of
all
the
daughters
of
my
city.
\VS{52}They
that
are mine
enemies
without
cause have chased
me sore like
a
bird.
\VS{53}They have
cut
off
my
life
in
a
pit,
and cast
a
stone upon
me.
\VS{54}Waters streamed
over
my
head;
I
said,
I am
cut
off.
\VS{55}I
called
upon thy
name,
Jehovah, out
of
the
lowest
pit.
\VS{56}Thou hast
heard
my
voice:
hide
not thine
ear
at
my sighing,
at
my
cry.
\VS{57}Thou drewest
near
in
the
day
that
I
called
upon thee; thou saidst,
Fear
not.
\VS{58}Lord, thou hast
pleaded
the
cause
of
my
soul, thou hast
redeemed
my
life.
\VS{59}Jehovah, thou hast
seen
my wrong:
judge thou
my
cause.
\VS{60}Thou hast
seen
all
their
vengeance,
all
their imaginations
against
me.
\VS{61}Thou hast
heard
their
reproach,
O
Jehovah,
all
their imaginations
against
me;
\VS{62}the
lips
of
those
that
rise
up
against
me
and
their
meditation
against
me
all
the
day.
\VS{63}Behold thou
their
sitting
down
and
their
rising
up:
I
am
their
song.
\VS{64}Render unto
them
a recompence,
O
Jehovah,
according
to
the
work
of
their
hands;
\VS{65}give
them obduracy
of
heart, thy
curse unto
them;
\VS{66}pursue
them
in
anger,
and
destroy
them
from
under
the
heavens
of
Jehovah.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}How
is
the
gold
become dim!
the
most
pure
gold
changed!
the
stones
of
the
sanctuary
poured
out
at
the
top
of
all
the
streets!
\VS{2}The
sons
of
Zion,
so
precious, comparable
to
fine
gold,
how
are
they
esteemed
as
earthen pitchers,
the
work
of
the
hands
of
the
potter!
\VS{3}Even
the jackals offer
the
breast,
they give
suck
to
their
young;
the
daughter
of
my
people
is become
cruel,
like
the
ostriches
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{4}The
tongue
of
the sucking
child cleaveth
to
the
roof
of
his
mouth
for
thirst;
the young
children
ask
bread,
no
man breaketh
it unto
them.
\VS{5}They
that
fed delicately
are
desolate
in
the
streets;
they
that
were brought
up
in
scarlet
embrace dung-hills.
\VS{6}And
the
punishment
of
the
iniquity
of
the
daughter
of
my
people
is
greater
than
the reward
of
the
sin
of
Sodom, which
was
overthrown
as
in
a
moment,
and
no
hands
were
violently laid
upon
her.
\VS{7}Her Nazarites
were
purer than
snow,
whiter than
milk; they
were more
ruddy
in
body than rubies, their figure was as
sapphire.
\VS{8}Their visage
is darker
than blackness,
they
are
not
known
in
the
streets;
their
skin cleaveth
to
their
bones,
it
is
withered,
it
is
become
like
a
stick.
\VS{9}The
slain
with
the
sword
are happier
than
the
slain
with
hunger;
for
these
pine
away,
stricken
through
for want
of
the
fruits
of
the
field.
\VS{10}The
hands
of pitiful
women
have
boiled
their
own
children:
they
were
their meat
in
the
ruin
of
the
daughter
of
my
people.
\VS{11}Jehovah hath
accomplished
his
fury;
he hath
poured
out
his
fierce
anger,
and hath
kindled
a
fire
in
Zion,
which hath
consumed
the
foundations thereof.
\VS{12}The
kings
of
the
earth,
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
world,
would
not
have
believed
that
the adversary
and
the
enemy
should
enter
into
the
gates
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{13}[It
is]
for
the
sins
of
her
prophets, [and]
the
iniquities
of
her
priests,
who
have
shed
the
blood
of
the
righteous
in
the
midst
of
her.
\VS{14}They
wandered
about
blind
in
the
streets;
they
were polluted
with
blood,
so
that
men
could
not
touch
their
garments.
\VS{15}They
cried unto
them,
Depart!
Unclean!
Depart!
depart,
touch
not!
When
they fled
away,
and
wandered
about,
it
was
said
among
the
nations,
They
shall
no
more sojourn [there].
\VS{16}The
face
of
Jehovah hath
divided
them;
he
will
no
more
regard
them.
They respected
not
the persons
of
the
priests,
they favoured
not
the
aged.
\VS{17}Our
eyes
still
failed
for
our
vain
help;
in
our
watching, we
have
watched
for
a
nation
that
did
not
save.
\VS{18}They
hunted
our
steps,
that
we could
not
go
in
our
streets:
our
end
is
near,
our
days
are
fulfilled;
for
our
end
is
come.
\VS{19}Our
pursuers
were
swifter
than
the
eagles
of
the
heavens;
they
chased
us
hotly
upon
the
mountains,
they laid
wait
for
us
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{20}The
breath
of
our
nostrils,
the
anointed
of
Jehovah,
was
taken
in
their
pits;
of
whom
we
said, Under
his
shadow
we
shall
live among
the
nations.
\VS{21}Rejoice
and
be
glad,
daughter
of
Edom,
that dwellest
in
the
land
of
Uz:
the
cup
shall
pass
also unto thee; thou shalt
be drunken,
and
make thyself
naked.
\VS{22}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 discover thy
sins.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Remember,
O
Jehovah,
what
is
come
upon
us;
consider,
and
see
our
reproach.
\VS{2}Our
inheritance
is
turned
to
strangers, our
houses
to
aliens.
\VS{3}We
are
orphans
and
fatherless,
our
mothers
are
as
widows.
\VS{4}Our
water
have we
to
drink
for
money,
our
wood cometh unto
us
for
a
price.
\VS{5}Our
pursuers
are
on
our
necks: we
are
weary, we
have
no
rest.
\VS{6}We
have
given
the
hand
to
Egypt, [and]
to
Asshur,
to
be
satisfied
with
bread.
\VS{7}Our
fathers
have
sinned, [and]
they
are
not;
and
we
bear
their
iniquities.
\VS{8}Bondmen
rule
over
us:
there
is
no deliverer
out
of
their
hand.
\VS{9}We
have
to
get
our
bread
at
the risk
of
our
lives,
because
of
the
sword
of
the
wilderness.
\VS{10}Our
skin gloweth
like
an
oven,
because
of
the
burning
heat
of
the
famine.
\VS{11}They
have ravished
the
women
in
Zion,
the maids
in
the
cities
of
Judah.
\VS{12}Princes
were
hanged up
by
their
hand;
the
faces
of
elders
were
not honoured.
\VS{13}The
young
men
have
borne
the mill,
and
the
youths
have
stumbled
under
the
wood.
\VS{14}The
elders
have ceased
from
the
gate,
the
young
men
from
their
music.
\VS{15}The
joy
of our
heart hath ceased; our
dance
is
turned
into
mourning.
\VS{16}The
crown
is
fallen
from
our
head:
woe unto
us,
for
we
have
sinned!
\VS{17}For
this
our
heart
is
faint;
for
these
things
our
eyes
have
grown
dim,
\VS{18}Because
of
the
mountain
of
Zion,
which
is
desolate:
foxes
walk
over
it.
\VS{19}Thou,
Jehovah, dwellest
for
ever; thy
throne
is
from
generation
to
generation.
\VS{20}Wherefore dost thou
forget
us
for
ever, dost thou
forsake
us
so
long
time?
\VS{21}Turn thou
us unto thee,
Jehovah,
and
we
shall
be
turned;
renew
our
days
as
of old.
\VS{22}Or
is
it
that thou hast
utterly
rejected
us? Wouldest thou
be
exceeding wroth
against
us?
\par }