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\par }{\MTB of Jeremiah

\par }\ChapOne{1}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Aleph.
How doth
the
city
sit solitary
that
was
full
of
people!
how
is
the mistress
of
the
Gentiles
become
as
a
widow:
the princes
of
provinces
made tributary!
\VS{2}Beth.
Weeping she hath
wept
in
the
night,
and
her
tears
are
on
her
cheeks:
there
is
none
to
comfort
her
among
all
them
that
were dear
to
her:
all
her
friends
have despised
her,
and
are
become
her
enemies.
\VS{3}Ghimel. Juda hath
removed
her
dwelling
place
because
of
her affliction,
and
the
greatness
of
her
bondage:
she hath
dwelt
among
the
nations,
and
she hath
found
no
rest:
all
her
persecutors
have
taken
her
in
the
midst
of straits.
\VS{4}Daleth.
The
ways
of Sion
mourn,
because
there
are
none
that
come
to
the solemn
feast:
all
her
gates
are broken
down:
her
priests
sigh:
her
virgins
are
in affliction,
and
she
is oppressed
with
bitterness.
\VS{5}He.
Her adversaries
are
become
her lords,
her
enemies
are enriched:
because
the
Lord hath spoken
against
her
for
the
multitude
of
her iniquities:
her
children
are
led
into
captivity:
before
the
face
of
the oppressor.
\VS{6}Vau.
And
from
the
daughter
of Sion
all
her beauty
is
departed:
her
princes
are
become
like
rams
that
find
no
pastures:
and
they
are
gone
away
without
strength
before
the
face
of
the
pursuer.
\VS{7}Zain.
Jerusalem hath
remembered
the
days
of
her affliction,
and prevarication
of
all
her desirable
things
which
she
had
from
the
days
of old,
when
her
people
fell
in
the enemy’s
hand,
and
there
was
no
helper:
the
enemies
have
seen
her,
and
have
mocked
at
her sabbaths.
\VS{8}Heth.
Jerusalem hath grievously
sinned,
therefore
is
she
become unstable:
all
that honoured
her
have despised
her,
because
they
have
seen
her
shame:
but
she
sighed
and
turned
backward.
\VS{9}Teth.
Her filthiness
is
on
her feet,
and
she hath
not
remembered
her
end:
she
is wonderfully cast
down,
not
having
a
comforter:
behold,
O
Lord,
my affliction,
because
the
enemy
is
lifted
up.
\VS{10}Jod.
The enemy hath
put
out
his
hand
to
all
her
desirable
things:
for
she hath
seen
the
Gentiles
enter
into
her
sanctuary,
of
whom thou gavest
commandment
that
they
should
not
enter
into thy church.
\VS{11}Caph.
All
her
people
sigh,
they
seek
bread:
they
have
given
all
their
precious
things
for
food
to relieve
the
soul:
see,
O
Lord,
and
consider,
for
I
am
become vile.
\VS{12}Lamed.
O
all ye
that
pass
by
the
way, attend,
and
see
if
there
be
any
sorrow
like
to
my
sorrow:
for
he hath
made
a vintage
of
me,
as
the
Lord
spoke
in
the
day
of
his
fierce
anger.
\VS{13}Mem.
From
above
he hath
sent
fire
into
my
bones,
and hath chastised
me:
he hath
spread
a
net
for
my
feet,
he hath
turned
me
back:
he hath
made
me
desolate, wasted
with sorrow
all
the
day
long.
\VS{14}Nun.
The
yoke
of
my iniquities hath watched:
they
are folded
together
in
his
hand,
and
put
upon
my
neck:
my
strength
is weakened:
the
Lord hath
delivered
me
into
a
hand
out
of which
I am
not
able
to
rise.
\VS{15}Samech.
The
Lord hath taken
away
all
my
mighty
men
out
of
the
midst
of
me:
he hath
called
against
me
the
time,
to
destroy
my chosen
men:
the
Lord hath
trodden
the winepress
for
the
virgin
daughter
of Juda.
\VS{16}Ain.
Therefore
do
I
weep,
and
my
eyes
run
down
with
water:
because
the
comforter,
the relief
of
my
soul,
is
far
from
me:
my
children
are
desolate
because
the
enemy hath
prevailed.
\VS{17}Phe. Sion hath
spread forth
her
hands,
there
is
none
to
comfort
her:
the
Lord hath
commanded
against
Jacob,
his
enemies
are
round
about
him:
Jerusalem
is
as
a menstruous woman
among
them.
\VS{18}Sade.
The
Lord
is
just,
for
I
have provoked
his
mouth
to wrath:
hear,
I
pray
you,
all ye
people,
and
see
my
sorrow:
my
virgins,
and
my
young
men
are
gone
into
captivity.
\VS{19}Coph.
I
called
for
my
friends,
but
they
deceived
me:
my
priests
and
my ancients pined
away
in
the
city:
while
they
sought
their
food,
to relieve
their
souls.
\VS{20}Res.
Behold,
O
Lord,
for
I
am
in
distress,
my
bowels
are troubled:
my
heart
is
turned
within
me,
for
I
am full
of bitterness:
abroad
the
sword destroyeth,
and
at
home
there
is
death alike.
\VS{21}Sin.
They
have
heard
that
I
sigh,
and
there
is
none
to
comfort
me:
all
my
enemies
have
heard
of
my
evil,
they
have
rejoiced
that thou hast
done
it: thou hast
brought
a
day
of
consolation,
and
they
shall
be
like unto
me.
\VS{22}Thau. Let
all
their
evil
be
present
before thee:
and
make vintage
of
them,
as thou hast
made vintage
of
me
for
all
my iniquities:
for
my sighs
are
many,
and
my
heart
is sorrowful.

\par }\Chap{2}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Aleph.
How hath
the
Lord
covered
with obscurity
the
daughter
of Sion
in
his
wrath!
how hath
he
cast
down
from
heaven
to
the
earth
the
glorious
one
of
Israel,
and hath
not
remembered
his footstool
in
the
day
of
his
anger!
\VS{2}Beth.
The
Lord hath
cast
down headlong,
and hath
not
spared,
all
that
was beautiful
in
Jacob:
he hath
destroyed
in
his
wrath
the strong holds
of
the virgin
of Juda,
and
brought
them
down
to
the
ground:
he hath
made
the
kingdom unclean,
and
the
princes thereof.
\VS{3}Ghimel.
He hath broken
in
his
fierce
anger
all
the
horn
of
Israel:
he hath
drawn
back
his
right
hand
from
before
the
enemy:
and
he hath kindled
in
Jacob
as
it
were
a
flaming
fire
devouring
round
about.
\VS{4}Daleth.
He hath
bent
his
bow
as an
enemy,
he hath
fixed
his
right
hand
as an adversary:
and
he hath
killed
all
that
was fair
to behold
in
the
tabernacle
of
the
daughter
of Sion,
he hath
poured
out
his indignation
like
fire.
\VS{5}He.
The
Lord
is
become
as
an
enemy:
he hath cast down
Israel headlong,
he hath overthrown
all
the walls thereof:
he hath
destroyed
his strong holds,
and hath
multiplied
in
the
daughter
of Juda
the afflicted,
both
men
and
women.
\VS{6}Vau.
And
he hath
destroyed
his tent
as
a
garden,
he hath thrown
down
his
tabernacle:
the
Lord hath caused
feasts
and
sabbaths
to
be
forgotten
in Sion:
and hath delivered
up
king
and
priest
to reproach,
and
to
the
indignation
of
his
wrath.
\VS{7}Zain.
The
Lord hath
cast
off
his
altar,
he hath cursed
his
sanctuary:
he hath
delivered
the
walls
of
the
towers thereof
into
the
hand
of
the
enemy:
they
have
made
a
noise
in
the
house
of
the
Lord,
as
in
the
day
of
a solemn
feast.
\VS{8}Heth.
The
Lord hath
purposed
to
destroy
the
wall
of
the
daughter
of Sion:
he hath
stretched
out
his line,
and hath
not withdrawn
his
hand
from
destroying:
and
the bulwark hath
mourned,
and
the
wall hath
been
destroyed
together.
\VS{9}Teth.
Her
gates
are
sunk
into
the
ground:
he hath
destroyed,
and
broken
her
bars:
her
king
and
her
princes
are
among
the
Gentiles:
the
law
is
no
more,
and
her
prophets
have
found
no
vision
from
the
Lord.
\VS{10}Jod.
The ancients
of
the
daughter
of Sion
sit
upon
the
ground,
they
have held
their peace:
they
have sprinkled
their
heads
with
dust,
they
are
girded
with haircloth,
the
virgins
of
Jerusalem hang
down
their
heads
to
the
ground.
\VS{11}Caph.
My
eyes
have
failed
with weeping,
my
bowels
are troubled:
my
liver
is
poured
out
upon
the
earth,
for
the
destruction
of
the
daughter
of
my
people,
when
the
children,
and
the sucklings, fainted
away
in
the
streets
of
the
city.
\VS{12}Lamed.
They
said
to
their
mothers:
Where
is corn
and
wine?
when
they fainted away
as
the
wounded
in
the
streets
of
the
city:
when
they breathed
out
their
souls
in
the bosoms
of
their
mothers.
\VS{13}Mem.
To
what
shall
I
compare thee?
or
to
what
shall
I
liken thee,
O
daughter
of
Jerusalem?
to
what
shall
I
equal thee,
that
I
may
comfort thee,
O
virgin
daughter
of Sion?
for
great
as
the
sea
is thy
destruction:
who
shall
heal thee?
\VS{14}Nun. Thy
prophets
have
seen
false
and foolish
things
for thee:
and
they
have
not
laid
open thy
iniquity,
to excite thee
to penance:
but
they
have
seen
for thee
false revelations
and banishments.
\VS{15}Samech.
All
they
that
passed
by
the
way
have clapped
their
hands
at thee:
they
have hissed,
and wagged
their
heads
at
the
daughter
of
Jerusalem,
saying:
Is
this
the
city
of
perfect
beauty,
the
joy
of
all
the
earth?
\VS{16}Phe.
All thy
enemies
have
opened
their
mouth
against thee:
they
have hissed,
and
gnashed
with
the
teeth,
and
have
said:
We
will
swallow
her
up: lo,
this
is
the
day
which
we
looked
for:
we
have
found
it,
we
have
seen
it.
\VS{17}Ain.
The
Lord hath
done
that
which
he
purposed,
he hath fulfilled
his
word,
which
he
commanded
in
the
days
of old:
he hath
destroyed,
and hath
not
spared,
and
he hath
caused
the
enemy
to
rejoice
over thee,
and hath
set
up
the
horn
of thy adversaries.
\VS{18}Sade.
Their
heart
cried
to
the
Lord
upon
the
walls
of
the
daughter
of Sion:
Let
tears
run
down
like
a torrent
day
and
night:
give thyself
no rest,
and
let
not
the apple
of thy
eye cease.
\VS{19}Coph.
Arise,
give praise
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
to
him
for
the
life
of thy
little
children,
that
have fainted
for
hunger
at
the
top
of
all
the
streets.
\VS{20}Res.
Behold,
O
Lord,
and
consider
whom thou hast
thus dealt
with:
shall
women
then
eat
their own
fruit,
their
children
of
a span long?
shall
the
priest
and
the
prophet
be
slain
in
the
sanctuary
of
the
Lord?
\VS{21}Sin.
The
child
and
the
old
man
lie
without
on
the
ground:
my
virgins
and
my
young
men
are
fallen
by
the
sword: thou hast
slain
them
in
the
day
of thy
wrath: thou hast
killed,
and shewn
them
no
pity.
\VS{22}Thau. Thou hast
called
as
to
a
festival,
those
that
should terrify
me
round
about,
and
there
was
none
in
the
day
of
the
wrath
of
the
Lord
that escaped
and
was
left:
those
that
I
brought
up,
and nourished,
my
enemy hath
consumed
them.

\par }\Chap{3}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Aleph.
I
am
the
man
that
see
my poverty
by
the
rod
of
his indignation.
\VS{2}Aleph.
He hath
led
me,
and
brought
me into
darkness,
and
not into
light.
\VS{3}Aleph.
Only
against
me
he hath
turned,
and
turned
again
his
hand
all
the
day.
\VS{4}Beth.
My
skin
and
my
flesh he hath made
old, he hath
broken
my
bones.
\VS{5}Beth.
He hath
built
round
about
me,
and
he hath compassed
me
with
gall
and labour.
\VS{6}Beth. He hath
set
me
in
dark
places
as those
that are
dead
for
ever.
\VS{7}Ghimel.
He hath built against
me round
about,
that
I
may
not
get
out:
he hath
made
my
fetters
heavy.
\VS{8}Ghimel.
Yea,
and
when
I
cry,
and entreat,
he hath shut
out
my
prayer.
\VS{9}Ghimel. He hath shut up
my
ways
with square
stones, he hath turned
my
paths upside
down.
\VS{10}Daleth.
He
is become
to me
as
a
bear
lying
in
wait:
as
a
lion
in
secret
places.
\VS{11}Daleth.
He hath
turned
aside
my
paths,
and hath broken
me
in
pieces,
he hath
made
me
desolate.
\VS{12}Daleth. He hath
bent
his
bow,
and
set
me as a mark for
his
arrows.
\VS{13}He.
He hath shot
into
my reins
the daughters
of
his
quiver.
\VS{14}He.
I
am
made
a derision
to
all
my
people,
their
song
all
the
day
long.
\VS{15}He. He hath
filled
me
with
bitterness, he hath inebriated
me
with
wormwood.
\VS{16}Vau.
And he hath
broken
my
teeth one by one, he hath fed me
with
ashes.
\VS{17}Vau.
And
my
soul
is removed far off
from
peace,
I
have
forgotten
good things.
\VS{18}Vau.
And
I
said:
My
end
and
my
hope
is
perished
from
the
Lord.
\VS{19}Zain.
Remember
my poverty,
and transgression,
the
wormwood,
and
the
gall.
\VS{20}Zain.
I
will
be
mindful
and
remember,
and
my
soul
shall languish
within
me.
\VS{21}Zain.
These things
I
shall
think
over
in
my
heart,
therefore
will
I
hope.
\VS{22}Heth.
The
mercies
of
the
Lord
that
we
are
not
consumed:
because
his commiserations
have
not
failed.
\VS{23}Heth.
They are
new
every
morning,
great is thy
faithfulness.
\VS{24}Heth.
The
Lord
is
my
portion,
said
my
soul:
therefore
will
I
wait
for
him.
\VS{25}Teth.
The
Lord
is
good
to
them
that
hope
in
him,
to
the
soul
that seeketh
him.
\VS{26}Teth.
It
is
good
to wait
with silence
for
the
salvation
of
God.
\VS{27}Teth.
It
is
good
for
a
man,
when
he hath
borne
the
yoke
from
his
youth.
\VS{28}Jod.
He
shall
sit solitary,
and hold
his peace:
because
he hath
taken
it
up
upon
himself.
\VS{29}Jod.
He
shall
put
his
mouth
in
the
dust,
if
so
be
there
may
be
hope.
\VS{30}Jod.
He shall
give
his
cheek
to
him
that striketh
him,
he shall
be
filled
with
reproaches.
\VS{31}Caph.
For
the
Lord
will
not cast off
for
ever.
\VS{32}Caph.
For
if
he hath cast off,
he
will
also
have
mercy, according
to
the
multitude
of
his mercies.
\VS{33}Caph.
For
he hath
not willingly
afflicted,
nor cast off
the
children
of
men.
\VS{34}Lamed.
To
crush
under
his
feet
all
the
prisoners
of
the
land,
\VS{35}Lamed.
To
turn
aside
the
judgment
of
a
man
before
the
face
of
the most
High,
\VS{36}Lamed.
To destroy
a
man wrongfully
in
his judgment,
the
Lord hath
not approved.
\VS{37}Mem.
Who
is
he
that hath
commanded
a
thing
to
be
done,
when
the
Lord commandeth
it
not?
\VS{38}Mem.
Shall
not both
evil
and
good
proceed
out
of
the
mouth
of
the Highest?
\VS{39}Mem.
Why hath
a
living
man murmured,
man suffering
for
his
sins?
\VS{40}Nun. Let
us
search
our
ways,
and seek,
and
return
to
the
Lord.
\VS{41}Nun. Let
us
lift
up
our
hearts
with
our
hands
to
the Lord
in
the
heavens.
\VS{42}Nun.
We
have done wickedly,
and provoked thee
to wrath:
therefore thou art inexorable.
\VS{43}Samech. Thou hast covered
in thy
wrath,
and hast struck us: thou hast
killed
and hast
not
spared.
\VS{44}Samech. Thou hast set a
cloud before thee,
that our
prayer may not
pass
through.
\VS{45}Samech. Thou hast
made
me
as
an outcast,
and
refuse
in
the
midst
of
the
people.
\VS{46}Phe.
All
our
enemies
have
opened
their
mouths
against
us.
\VS{47}Phe. Prophecy
is
become
to us
a
fear,
and
a snare,
and
destruction.
\VS{48}Phe.
My
eye hath
run
down
with
streams
of
water,
for
the
destruction
of
the
daughter
of
my
people.
\VS{49}Ain.
My
eye
is afflicted,
and hath
not
been quiet, because
there
was
no rest:
\VS{50}Ain.
Till
the
Lord
regarded
and
looked
down
from
the
heavens.
\VS{51}Ain.
My
eye hath wasted
my
soul
because
of
all
the
daughters
of
my
city.
\VS{52}Sade. My
enemies have chased
me
and caught
me like
a
bird,
without
cause.
\VS{53}Sade.
My
life
is fallen
into
the
pit,
and they have laid
a
stone over
me.
\VS{54}Sade.
Waters
have
flowed
over
my
head:
I
said:
I am
cut
off.
\VS{55}Coph.
I
have
called
upon thy
name,
O
Lord,
from
the
lowest
pit.
\VS{56}Coph. Thou hast
heard
my
voice:
turn
not away thy
ear
from
my sighs,
and
cries.
\VS{57}Coph. Thou drewest
near
in
the
day,
when
I
called
upon thee, thou saidst:
Fear
not.
\VS{58}Res. Thou hast judged,
O
Lord,
the
cause
of
my
soul, thou
the
Redeemer
of
my
life.
\VS{59}Res. Thou hast
seen,
O
Lord,
their iniquity against
me:
judge thou
my
judgment.
\VS{60}Res. Thou hast
seen
all
their fury,
and
all
their
thoughts
against
me.
\VS{61}Sin. Thou hast
heard
their
reproach,
O
Lord,
all
their imaginations
against
me.
\VS{62}Sin.
The
lips
of
them
that
rise
up
against
me:
and
their devices
against
me
all
the
day.
\VS{63}Sin.
Behold
their
sitting
down,
and
their
rising
up,
I
am
their
song.
\VS{64}Thau. Thou shalt
render
them
a
recompense,
O
Lord,
according
to
the
works
of
their
hands.
\VS{65}Thau. Thou shalt
give
them
a buckler
of
heart, thy labour.
\VS{66}Thau. Thou shalt
persecute
them
in
anger,
and shalt
destroy
them
from
under
the
heavens,
O
Lord.

\par }\Chap{4}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Aleph.
How
is
the
gold
become dim,
the
finest colour
is
changed,
the
stones
of
the
sanctuary
are scattered
in
the
top
of
every
street?
\VS{2}Beth.
The
noble
sons
of Sion,
and
they
that
were clothed
with
the best
gold:
how
are
they
esteemed
as
earthen
vessels,
the
work
of
the
potter’s
hands?
\VS{3}Ghimel.
Even
the sea monsters
have drawn
out
the
breast,
they
have given
suck
to
their
young:
the
daughter
of
my
people
is
cruel,
like
the ostrich
in
the
desert.
\VS{4}Daleth.
The
tongue
of
the sucking
child hath
stuck
to
the
roof
of
his
mouth
for
thirst:
the
little
ones
have
asked
for
bread,
and
there
was
none
to break
it unto
them.
\VS{5}He.
They
that
were
fed delicately
have died
in
the
streets;
they
that
were brought
up
in
scarlet
have
embraced
the dung.
\VS{6}Vau.
And
the
iniquity
of
the
daughter
of
my
people
is made
greater
than
the
sin
of
Sodom, which
was
overthrown
in
a
moment,
and
hands took
nothing
in
her.
\VS{7}Zain. Her Nazarites
were
whiter than
snow,
purer than
milk, more
ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the
sapphire.
\VS{8}Heth.
Their face
is
now
made
blacker
than coals,
and
they
are
not
known
in
the
streets:
their
skin hath stuck
to
their
bones,
it
is
withered,
and
is
become
like
wood.
\VS{9}Teth.
It
was
better
with
them
that
were
slain
by
the
sword,
than
with
them
that died
with
hunger:
for
these pined
away
being consumed
for want
of
the
fruits
of
the earth.
\VS{10}Jod.
The
hands
of
the pitiful
women
have sodden
their
own
children:
they
were
their meat
in
the
destruction
of
the
daughter
of
my
people.
\VS{11}Caph.
The
Lord hath
accomplished
his
wrath,
he hath
poured
out
his
fierce
anger:
and
he hath
kindled
a
fire
in Sion,
and
it hath
devoured
the
foundations thereof.
\VS{12}Lamed.
The
kings
of
the
earth,
and
all
the
inhabitants
of
the
world
would
not
have
believed,
that
the adversary
and
the
enemy
should
enter
in
by
the
gates
of
Jerusalem.
\VS{13}Mem.
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.
\VS{14}Nun.
They
have
wandered
as
blind
men
in
the
streets,
they
were
defiled
with
blood:
and
when
they
could
not help walking
in
it,
they held
up
their skirts.
\VS{15}Samech.
Depart
you
that
are
defiled,
they
cried
out
to
them:
Depart,
get ye hence,
touch
not:
for
they quarrelled,
and being
removed,
they
said
among
the
Gentiles:
He
will
no
more
dwell
among
them.
\VS{16}Phe.
The
face
of
the
Lord hath
divided
them,
he
will
no
more
regard
them:
they respected
not
the persons
of
the
priests,
neither
had
they
pity
on
the ancient.
\VS{17}Ain.
While we
were
yet standing,
our
eyes
failed, expecting
help
for
us
in
vain,
when we
looked attentively towards
a
nation
that
was
not able
to
save.
\VS{18}Sade.
Our
steps
have slipped
in
the way
of
our
streets,
our
end draweth
near:
our
days
are
fulfilled,
for
our
end
is
come.
\VS{19}Coph.
Our
persecutors
were
swifter
than
the
eagles
of
the air:
they
pursued
us
upon
the
mountains,
they
lay
in
wait
for
us
in
the
wilderness.
\VS{20}Res.
The
breath
of
our mouth, Christ
the
Lord,
is
taken
in
our sins:
to
whom
we
said: Under thy
shadow
we
shall
live among
the
Gentiles.
\VS{21}Sin.
Rejoice,
and
be
glad, O
daughter
of
Edom,
that dwellest
in
the
land
of Hus:
to thee
also
shall
the
cup come, thou shalt
be
made
drunk,
and
naked.
\VS{22}Thau. Thy
iniquity
is accomplished, O
daughter
of Sion,
he
will
no
more
carry thee
away
into
captivity:
he
visited thy
iniquity, O
daughter
of
Edom,
he hath discovered thy
sins.
The Prayer
of Jeremias
the Prophet.

\par }\Chap{5}{\PP \VerseOne{1}Remember,
O
Lord,
what
is
come
upon
us:
consider
and
behold
our
reproach.
\VS{2}Our
inheritance
is
turned
to
aliens: our
houses
to
strangers.
\VS{3}We
are
become
orphans
without
a
father:
our
mothers
are
as
widows.
\VS{4}We
have
drunk
our
water
for
money: we
have bought
our
wood.
\VS{5}We
were dragged
by
the
necks, we
were
weary
and
no
rest
was
given
us.
\VS{6}We
have
given
our
hand
to
Egypt,
and
to
the Assyrians,
that we might
be
satisfied
with
bread.
\VS{7}Our
fathers
have
sinned,
and
are
not:
and
we
have
borne
their
iniquities.
\VS{8}Servants
have
ruled
over
us:
there
was
none
to redeem
us
out
of
their
hand.
\VS{9}We fetched
our
bread
at
the peril
of
our
lives,
because
of
the
sword
in
the
desert.
\VS{10}Our
skin
was burnt
as
an
oven,
by reason
of
the violence
of
the
famine.
\VS{11}They
oppressed
the
women
in Sion,
and
the
virgins
in
the
cities
of Juda.
\VS{12}The
princes
were
hanged up
by
their
hand:
they
did
not
respect
the persons
of
the ancient.
\VS{13}They abused
the
young
men indecently:
and
the
children fell
under
the
wood.
\VS{14}The ancients
have ceased
from
the
gates:
the
young
men
from
the choir
of
the singers.
\VS{15}The
joy
of our
heart
is ceased, our
dancing
is
turned
into
mourning.
\VS{16}The
crown
is
fallen
from
our
head
woe
to
us,
because
we
have
sinned.
\VS{17}Therefore
is
our
heart sorrowful,
therefore
are
our
eyes
become
dim,
\VS{18}For
mount Sion,
because
it
is destroyed,
foxes
have
walked
upon
it.
\VS{19}But thou,
O
Lord, shalt
remain
for
ever, thy
throne
from
generation
to
generation.
\VS{20}Why wilt thou
forget
us
for
ever?
why wilt thou
forsake
us
for
a
long
time?
\VS{21}Convert
us,
O
Lord,
to thee,
and
we
shall
be
converted:
renew
our
days,
as
from
the beginning.
\VS{22}But thou hast
utterly
rejected
us, thou art
exceedingly
angry
against
us.
\par }