Lamentations 1:1–11

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*aHow doth the city bsit solitary, that was full of people!

cHow is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations,

And dprincess among ethe provinces, how is she become ftributary!

2  She gweepeth sore hin the night, and her tears are on her cheeks:

Among all iher lovers kshe hath none to comfort her:

All her friends lhave dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

3  mJudah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and †because of great servitude:

nShe dwelleth among the heathen, oshe findeth no rest:

All pher persecutors overtook her between qthe straits.

4  The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to rthe solemn feasts:

All sher gates are desolate: her priests tsigh,

Her virgins are uafflicted, and she is in bitterness.

5  Her adversaries are vthe chief, her enemies wprosper;

For the Lord xhath afflicted her yfor the multitude of her transgressions:

zHer children aare gone into captivity before the enemy.

6  And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed:

Her princes are become like harts that find no pasture,

And they are gone without strength before pthe pursuer.

7  Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her bmiseries

All her ||pleasant things that she had cin the days of old,

When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:

The adversaries saw her, and did mock at dher sabbaths.

8  Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she †is removed:

All that honoured her despise her, because fthey have seen her nakedness:

Yea, gshe sigheth, and turneth backward.

9  Her filthiness is in her hskirts; she iremembereth not her last end;

Therefore she came down wonderfully: jshe had no comforter.

O Lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy khath magnified himself.

10  The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her ||pleasant things:

For she hath seen that lthe heathen entered into her sanctuary,

Whom thou didst command that mthey should not enter into thy congregation.

11  All her people gsigh, nthey seek bread;

They have given otheir pleasant things for meat ||to relieve the soul:

See, O Lord, and consider; for I am become vile.