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<article class="book" id="LAM" data-book="LAM" data-name="Lamentations" data-section="ot">
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<h1><span class="mt2">The</span><span class="mt">Lamentations</span><span class="mt2">of Jeremiah</span></h1>
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<section class="chapter" id="ch1" data-chapter="1">
<h2 class="chapter-number">1</h2>
<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v1_1">1</span> How the city sits solitary,</p>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that was full of people!</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">She has become as a widow,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who was great among the nations!</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">She who was a princess among the provinces</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">has become a slave!</p>
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<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_2">2</span> She weeps bitterly in the night.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Her tears are on her cheeks.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Among all her lovers</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">she has no one to comfort her.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">All her friends have dealt treacherously with her.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have become her enemies.</p>
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<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_3">3</span> Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and because of great servitude.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">She dwells among the nations.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">She finds no rest.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">All her persecutors overtook her in her distress.</p>
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<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_4">4</span> The roads to Zion mourn,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because no one comes to the solemn assembly.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">All her gates are desolate.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Her priests sigh.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Her virgins are afflicted,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and she herself is in bitterness.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_5">5</span> Her adversaries have become the head.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Her enemies prosper;</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">for the LORD<a class="noteref" id="fnref1_1" href="#fn1_1"><sup>*</sup></a> has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_6">6</span> All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have gone without strength before the pursuer.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_7">7</span> Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">all her pleasant things that were from the days of old;</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">when her people fell into the hand of the adversary,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and no one helped her.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">The adversaries saw her.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They mocked at her desolations.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_8">8</span> Jerusalem has grievously sinned.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Therefore she has become unclean.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">All who honored her despise her,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because they have seen her nakedness.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, she sighs and turns backward.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_9">9</span> Her filthiness was in her skirts.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">She didn’t remember her latter end.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Therefore she has come down astoundingly.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">She has no comforter.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">“See, LORD, my affliction;</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the enemy has magnified himself.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_10">10</span> The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_11">11</span> All her people sigh.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They seek bread.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">“Look, LORD, and see,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I have become despised.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_12">12</span> “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which is brought on me,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">with which the LORD has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_13">13</span> “From on high has he sent fire into my bones,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and it prevails against them.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has spread a net for my feet.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has turned me back.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_14">14</span> “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are knit together.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have come up on my neck.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He made my strength fail.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">The Lord<a class="noteref" id="fnref1_2" href="#fn1_2"><sup>†</sup></a> has delivered me into their hands,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">against whom I am not able to stand.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_15">15</span> “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_16">16</span> “For these things I weep.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My eye, my eye runs down with water,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">My children are desolate,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because the enemy has prevailed.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_17">17</span> Zion spreads out her hands.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no one to comfort her.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that those who are around him should be his adversaries.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_18">18</span> “The LORD is righteous,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I have rebelled against his commandment.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Please hear all you peoples,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and see my sorrow.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_19">19</span> “I called for my lovers,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but they deceived me.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_20">20</span> “Look, LORD; for I am in distress.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart is troubled.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">My heart turns over within me,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for I have grievously rebelled.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Abroad, the sword bereaves.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">At home, it is like death.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_21">21</span> “They have heard that I sigh.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no one to comfort me.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">All my enemies have heard of my trouble.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are glad that you have done it.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">You will bring the day that you have proclaimed,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and they will be like me.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v1_22">22</span> “Let all their wickedness come before you.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">For my sighs are many,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my heart is faint.</p>
</div>
<section class="footnotes">
<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
<ol>
<li class="note" id="fn1_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref1_1">1:5</a> <span class="ft">When rendered in ALL CAPITAL LETTERS, “LORD” or “GOD” is the translation of God’s Proper Name (Hebrew “יהוה”, usually pronounced Yahweh).</span></li>
<li class="note" id="fn1_2" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">†</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref1_2">1:14</a> <span class="ft">The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”</span></li>
</ol>
</section>
</section>
<section class="chapter" id="ch2" data-chapter="2">
<h2 class="chapter-number">2</h2>
<p class="p"><span class="v" id="v2_1">1</span> How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger!</p>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has cast the beauty of Israel down from heaven to the earth,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and hasn’t remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_2">2</span> The Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">without pity.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has brought them down to the ground.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_3">3</span> He has cut off all the horn of Israel in fierce anger.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has burned up Jacob like a flaming fire,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which devours all around.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_4">4</span> He has bent his bow like an enemy.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has stood with his right hand as an adversary.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has killed all that were pleasant to the eye.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the tent of the daughter of Zion, he has poured out his wrath like fire.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_5">5</span> The Lord has become as an enemy.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has swallowed up Israel.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has swallowed up all her palaces.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has destroyed his strongholds.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has multiplied mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_6">6</span> He has violently taken away his tabernacle,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as if it were a garden.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has destroyed his place of assembly.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The LORD has caused solemn assembly and Sabbath to be forgotten in Zion.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In the indignation of his anger, he has despised the king and the priest.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_7">7</span> The Lord has cast off his altar.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has abhorred his sanctuary.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has given the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have made a noise in the LORD’s house,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as in the day of a solemn assembly.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_8">8</span> The LORD has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has stretched out the line.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has not withdrawn his hand from destroying;</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has made the rampart and wall lament.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They languish together.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_9">9</span> Her gates have sunk into the ground.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has destroyed and broken her bars.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Yes, her prophets find no vision from the LORD.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_10">10</span> The elders of the daughter of Zion sit on the ground.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They keep silence.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">They have cast up dust on their heads.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have clothed themselves with sackcloth.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_11">11</span> My eyes fail with tears.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My heart is troubled.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">My bile is poured on the earth,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of the destruction of the daughter of my people,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_12">12</span> They ask their mothers,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Where is grain and wine?”</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when their soul is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_13">13</span> What shall I testify to you?</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">What shall I liken to you, daughter of Jerusalem?</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">What shall I compare to you,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that I may comfort you, virgin daughter of Zion?</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">For your breach is as big as the sea.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Who can heal you?</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_14">14</span> Your prophets have seen false and foolish visions for you.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They have not uncovered your iniquity,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to reverse your captivity,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">but have seen for you false revelations and causes of banishment.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_15">15</span> All that pass by clap their hands at you.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying,</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">“Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the joy of the whole earth’?”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_16">16</span> All your enemies have opened their mouth wide against you.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They hiss and gnash their teeth.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They say, “We have swallowed her up.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Certainly this is the day that we looked for.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We have found it.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We have seen it.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_17">17</span> The LORD has done that which he planned.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has thrown down,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and has not pitied.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has exalted the horn of your adversaries.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_18">18</span> Their heart cried to the Lord.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">O wall of the daughter of Zion,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">let tears run down like a river day and night.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Give yourself no relief.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Don’t let your eyes rest.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_19">19</span> Arise, cry out in the night,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">at the beginning of the watches!</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Lift up your hands toward him for the life of your young children,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who faint for hunger at the head of every street.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_20">20</span> “Look, LORD, and see to whom you have done thus!</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Should the women eat their offspring,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the children that they held and bounced on their knees?</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_21">21</span> “The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">You have killed them in the day of your anger.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have slaughtered, and not pitied.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v2_22">22</span> “You have called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There was no one that escaped or remained in the day of the LORD’s anger.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">My enemy has consumed those whom I have cared for and brought up.</p>
</div>
</section>
<section class="chapter" id="ch3" data-chapter="3">
<h2 class="chapter-number">3</h2>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_1">1</span> I am the man who has seen affliction</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">by the rod of his wrath.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_2">2</span> He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and not in light.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_3">3</span> Surely he turns his hand against me</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">again and again all day long.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_4">4</span> He has made my flesh and my skin old.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has broken my bones.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_5">5</span> He has built against me,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_6">6</span> He has made me dwell in dark places,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as those who have been long dead.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_7">7</span> He has walled me about, so that I can’t go out.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has made my chain heavy.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_8">8</span> Yes, when I cry, and call for help,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">he shuts out my prayer.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_9">9</span> He has walled up my ways with cut stone.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has made my paths crooked.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_10">10</span> He is to me as a bear lying in wait,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">as a lion in hiding.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_11">11</span> He has turned away my path,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and pulled me in pieces.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has made me desolate.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_12">12</span> He has bent his bow,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and set me as a mark for the arrow.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_13">13</span> He has caused the shafts of his quiver to enter into my kidneys.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_14">14</span> I have become a derision to all my people,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their song all day long.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_15">15</span> He has filled me with bitterness.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has stuffed me with wormwood.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_16">16</span> He has also broken my teeth with gravel.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has covered me with ashes.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_17">17</span> You have removed my soul far away from peace.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I forgot prosperity.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_18">18</span> I said, “My strength has perished,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">along with my expectation from the LORD.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_19">19</span> Remember my affliction and my misery,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the wormwood and the bitterness.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_20">20</span> My soul still remembers them,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and is bowed down within me.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_21">21</span> This I recall to my mind;</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">therefore I have hope.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_22">22</span> It is because of the LORD’s loving kindnesses that we are not consumed,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because his mercies don’t fail.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_23">23</span> They are new every morning.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Great is your faithfulness.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_24">24</span> “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Therefore I will hope in him.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_25">25</span> The LORD is good to those who wait for him,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">to the soul who seeks him.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_26">26</span> It is good that a man should hope</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_27">27</span> It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_28">28</span> Let him sit alone and keep silence,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because he has laid it on him.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_29">29</span> Let him put his mouth in the dust,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">if it is so that there may be hope.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_30">30</span> Let him give his cheek to him who strikes him.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Let him be filled full of reproach.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_31">31</span> For the Lord will not cast off forever.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_32">32</span> For though he causes grief,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">yet he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving kindnesses.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_33">33</span> For he does not afflict willingly,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">nor grieve the children of men.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_34">34</span> To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_35">35</span> to turn away the right of a man before the face of the Most High,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_36">36</span> to subvert a man in his cause, the Lord doesn’t approve.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_37">37</span> Who is he who says, and it comes to pass,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">when the Lord doesn’t command it?</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_38">38</span> Doesn’t evil and good come out of the mouth of the Most High?</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_39">39</span> Why should a living man complain,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">a man for the punishment of his sins?</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_40">40</span> Let us search and try our ways,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and turn again to the LORD.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_41">41</span> Let’s lift up our heart with our hands to God<a class="noteref" id="fnref3_1" href="#fn3_1"><sup>*</sup></a> in the heavens.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_42">42</span> “We have transgressed and have rebelled.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have not pardoned.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_43">43</span> “You have covered us with anger and pursued us.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have killed.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have not pitied.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_44">44</span> You have covered yourself with a cloud,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that no prayer can pass through.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_45">45</span> You have made us an off-scouring and refuse</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">in the middle of the peoples.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_46">46</span> “All our enemies have opened their mouth wide against us.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2"><span class="v" id="v3_47">47</span> Terror and the pit have come on us,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">devastation and destruction.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_48">48</span> My eye runs down with streams of water,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for the destruction of the daughter of my people.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_49">49</span> My eye pours down</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and doesn’t cease,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">without any intermission,</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_50">50</span> until the LORD looks down,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and sees from heaven.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_51">51</span> My eye affects my soul,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of all the daughters of my city.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_52">52</span> They have chased me relentlessly like a bird,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">those who are my enemies without cause.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_53">53</span> They have cut off my life in the dungeon,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and have cast a stone on me.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_54">54</span> Waters flowed over my head.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I said, “I am cut off.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_55">55</span> I called on your name, LORD,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">out of the lowest dungeon.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_56">56</span> You heard my voice:</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Don’t hide your ear from my sighing,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and my cry.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_57">57</span> You came near in the day that I called on you.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You said, “Don’t be afraid.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_58">58</span> Lord, you have pleaded the causes of my soul.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You have redeemed my life.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_59">59</span> LORD, you have seen my wrong.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Judge my cause.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_60">60</span> You have seen all their vengeance</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and all their plans against me.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_61">61</span> You have heard their reproach, LORD,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and all their plans against me,</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_62">62</span> the lips of those that rose up against me,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and their plots against me all day long.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_63">63</span> You see their sitting down and their rising up.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">I am their song.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_64">64</span> You will pay them back, LORD,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">according to the work of their hands.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_65">65</span> You will give them hardness of heart,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">your curse to them.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v3_66">66</span> You will pursue them in anger,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and destroy them from under the heavens of the LORD.</p>
</div>
<section class="footnotes">
<h4 class="footnotes-title">Notes</h4>
<ol>
<li class="note" id="fn3_1" data-kind="footnote"><span class="marker">*</span> <a class="backref" href="#fnref3_1">3:41</a> <span class="ft">The Hebrew word rendered “God” is “אֱלֹהִ֑ים” (Elohim).</span></li>
</ol>
</section>
</section>
<section class="chapter" id="ch4" data-chapter="4">
<h2 class="chapter-number">4</h2>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_1">1</span> How the gold has become dim!</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The most pure gold has changed!</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">The stones of the sanctuary are poured out</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">at the head of every street.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_2">2</span> The precious sons of Zion,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">comparable to fine gold,</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">how they are esteemed as earthen pitchers,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the work of the hands of the potter!</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_3">3</span> Even the jackals offer their breast.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They nurse their young ones.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">But the daughter of my people has become cruel,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">like the ostriches in the wilderness.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_4">4</span> The tongue of the nursing child clings to the roof of his mouth for thirst.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The young children ask for bread,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and no one breaks it for them.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_5">5</span> Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Those who were brought up in purple embrace dunghills.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_6">6</span> For the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which was overthrown as in a moment.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">No hands were laid on her.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_7">7</span> Her nobles were purer than snow.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They were whiter than milk.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">They were more ruddy in body than rubies.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Their polishing was like sapphire.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_8">8</span> Their appearance is blacker than a coal.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are not known in the streets.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Their skin clings to their bones.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It is withered.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">It has become like wood.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_9">9</span> Those who are killed with the sword are better than those who are killed with hunger;</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for these pine away, stricken through,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for lack of the fruits of the field.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_10">10</span> The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_11">11</span> The LORD has accomplished his wrath.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He has poured out his fierce anger.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He has kindled a fire in Zion,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">which has devoured its foundations.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_12">12</span> The kings of the earth didn’t believe,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">neither did all the inhabitants of the world,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_13">13</span> It is because of the sins of her prophets</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the iniquities of her priests,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">that have shed the blood of the just in the middle of her.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_14">14</span> They wander as blind men in the streets.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They are polluted with blood,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">So that men can’t touch their garments.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_15">15</span> “Go away!” they cried to them.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“Unclean! Go away! Go away! Don’t touch!</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">When they fled away and wandered, men said among the nations,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">“They can’t live here any more.”</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_16">16</span> The LORD’s anger has scattered them.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will not pay attention to them any more.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">They didn’t respect the persons of the priests.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They didn’t favor the elders.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_17">17</span> Our eyes still fail,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">looking in vain for our help.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">In our watching we have watched for a nation that could not save.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_18">18</span> They hunt our steps,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">so that we can’t go in our streets.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">Our end is near.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our days are fulfilled,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">for our end has come.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_19">19</span> Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the sky.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They chased us on the mountains.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">They set an ambush for us in the wilderness.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_20">20</span> The breath of our nostrils,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the anointed of the LORD,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">was taken in their pits;</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">of whom we said,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">under his shadow we will live among the nations.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_21">21</span> Rejoice and be glad, daughter of Edom,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">who dwells in the land of Uz.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">The cup will pass through to you also.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You will be drunken,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and will make yourself naked.</p>
</div>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v4_22">22</span> The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished, daughter of Zion.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will no more carry you away into captivity.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1">He will visit your iniquity, daughter of Edom.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">He will uncover your sins.</p>
</div>
</section>
<section class="chapter" id="ch5" data-chapter="5">
<h2 class="chapter-number">5</h2>
<div class="poetry">
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_1">1</span> Remember, LORD, what has come on us.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Look, and see our reproach.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_2">2</span> Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">our houses to aliens.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_3">3</span> We are orphans and fatherless.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our mothers are as widows.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_4">4</span> We must pay for water to drink.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our wood is sold to us.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_5">5</span> Our pursuers are on our necks.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We are weary, and have no rest.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_6">6</span> We have given our hands to the Egyptians,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_7">7</span> Our fathers sinned, and are no more.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">We have borne their iniquities.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_8">8</span> Servants rule over us.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">There is no one to deliver us out of their hand.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_9">9</span> We get our bread at the peril of our lives,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of the sword in the wilderness.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_10">10</span> Our skin is black like an oven,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">because of the burning heat of famine.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_11">11</span> They ravished the women in Zion,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">the virgins in the cities of Judah.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_12">12</span> Princes were hanged up by their hands.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The faces of elders were not honored.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_13">13</span> The young men carry millstones.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The children stumbled under loads of wood.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_14">14</span> The elders have ceased from the gate,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and the young men from their music.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_15">15</span> The joy of our heart has ceased.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Our dance is turned into mourning.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_16">16</span> The crown has fallen from our head.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Woe to us, for we have sinned!</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_17">17</span> For this our heart is faint.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">For these things our eyes are dim:</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_18">18</span> for the mountain of Zion, which is desolate.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">The foxes walk on it.</p>
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<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_19">19</span> You, LORD, remain forever.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Your throne is from generation to generation.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_20">20</span> Why do you forget us forever,</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">and forsake us for so long a time?</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_21">21</span> Turn us to yourself, LORD, and we will be turned.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">Renew our days as of old.</p>
<p class="q line" data-indent="1"><span class="v" id="v5_22">22</span> But you have utterly rejected us.</p>
<p class="q2 line" data-indent="2">You are very angry against us.</p>
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