Holy Bible

Lamentations

1.1 How she dwells alone, the great city, the great nation, she is like a widow, she is great among the nations, she is a servant among the countries, she is a tribute!

1.2 She weeps in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. She has no comforter from all her lovers; all her wives have betrayed her, and they have become her enemies.

1.3 Judah was carried away captive by poverty and great servitude; she dwelt among the nations; she found no rest; all her pursuers overtook her among the Egyptians.

1.4 The ways of Zion mourn without a time. all her gates are desolate. her priests sigh, her virgins mourn, and she is bitter.

1.5 Her enemies were the head of her enemies, for YHVH had visited her for the multitude of her transgressions. her children went into captivity before the enemy.

1.6 And he went out from the daughter of Zion, all her multitude, her herds were like harts that found no pasture, and they went without strength before the pursuer.

1.7 Jerusalem remembered the days of her poverty and her humiliation, all her beloved ones of old, when her people fell into the hand of the oppressor, and there was none to help her; and the oppressors saw her, and they made sport of her habitation.

1.8 Jerusalem has sinned, therefore all her honorable ones have despised her; for they have seen her nakedness; she also sighs and sits backward.

1.9 She is defiled in her borders, she remembers not her latter end, and is brought down with wonders; there is none to comfort her. The LORD has seen my affliction, for the enemy has magnified himself.

1.10 His hand is spread out narrowly upon all her beloved ones. for she saw the heathen come into her sanctuary, which she had commanded, that they should not come in the multitude unto thee.

1.11 All her people sigh, seeking bread. They gave their lovers food to restore their souls. The LORD saw and looked, for I was devoured.

1.12 All you who pass by, look at you and see if there is any pain like my pain, which the Lord has inflicted on me in the day of his fierce anger.

1.13 He sent fire from on high by my power, and it came down, he spread a net for my feet, he turned me back, he made me desolate all the day long.

1.14 My transgressions are entangled in his hand, they have come up upon my neck. He has made my strength stumble. The Lord has given me into his hands, I cannot rise.

1.15 All the knights of my Lord are within me. the time has come for me to break the young men of Gath, the way of my Lord to the virgin daughter of Judah.

1.16 For these I weep, my eyes run down with water, because the comforter who restores my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy is strong.

1.17 Zion is broken in pieces, and there is none to comfort her. The LORD has commanded Jacob, his enemies are all around him; Jerusalem is a desolation among them.

1.18 The LORD is righteous, for his mouth is my mouth. hear, all ye people, and see the pains of my virginity, and my young men are gone into captivity.

1.19 I called to my lovers, for they were my priests and the elders of the city, who were consumed with hunger, because they sought food for themselves and restored their souls.

1.20 The Lord saw that I was in distress; my bowels were troubled; my heart was turned within me; for my bowels were troubled without, like a sword in the house.

1.21 Hear, for I sigh, there is none to comfort me. all mine enemies hear my trouble. let them be quiet. for thou hast done it, thou hast brought it, thou hast called for a day, and they shall be like unto me.

1.22 Let all their wickedness come before you, and do unto them as you have done unto me for all my transgressions. for I have groaned many times, and my heart is troubled.

2.1 How the Lord has cast down the daughter of Zion in his anger! He has cast down from heaven the land of the glory of Israel, and his feet have not remembered the blood in the day of his anger!

2.2 The Lord has swallowed up all the delights of Jacob, he has destroyed by his transgression the strongholds of the daughter of Judah, he has come to the land, he has laid waste the kingdom and its queens.

2.3 The chosen one has cut off the horn of all Israel, he has turned back his right hand from the enemy, and he has burned in Jacob like a fire, a flame that devours on every side.

2.4 Through his bow, as an enemy, his right hand stood as a siege, and he slew all the pleasant-looking ones in the tent of the daughter of Zion; he poured out his wrath like the fire.

2.5 My Lord was like an enemy, he swallowed up Israel, he swallowed up all her palaces, he destroyed her strongholds, and multiplied in the daughter of Judah a plague and a plague.

2.6 And he shall destroy it like a garden of Shechem, he shall destroy his appointed feasts. YHVH shall forget in Zion the appointed feasts and the Sabbaths, and shall abhor in the fierce anger of his wrath, king and priest.

2.7 The Lord has abandoned his altar, the light of his sanctuary; he has given into the hand of the enemy the wall of his palaces. Let us give a voice in the house of the Lord as on a solemn day.

2.8 The LORD purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion. he stretched out a line, he did not withdraw his hand from swallowing, and he mourned, the wall and the city together, they mourned.

2.9 The land is sunk, her gates are destroyed, and her bars are broken. her queen and her ministers are among the nations. there is no law, neither her prophets have found a vision from YHVH.

2.10 They sat down on the ground, they were like the elders of the daughter of Zion; they threw dust on their heads, they girded themselves with sackcloth, they bowed down to the ground, the virgin of Jerusalem.

2.11 Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are poured out upon the earth, my heart is heavy for the destruction of the daughter of my people, for the destruction of the infant and the suckling in the streets of the city.

2.12 They will say to their wives, "Where is the grain and wine?" As they cover themselves like a corpse in the streets of the city, pouring out their souls into the bosom of their wives.

2.13 What shall I testify to you? What is the earth to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I compare to you? And comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For the sea is great, and he who has blessed it, who can heal you?

2.14 Your prophets have prophesied to you false and empty things, and have not revealed your iniquity to restore your house, and they have prophesied to you false and abominable things.

2.15 All who pass by will clap their hands at you, they will hiss and shake their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem, this city, saying, “The beauty of the city is like a veil to the whole earth.”

2.16 All your enemies have opened their mouths against you; they have hissed and gnashed their teeth, saying, "We have swallowed it up, but this is the day that we have found it, we have seen it."

2.17 The LORD has done what he planned, he has fulfilled his word, which he commanded from of old. he has destroyed and has not pitied, and he has rejoiced over you, the enemy has lifted up his horn.

2.18 Their heart cried out to the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears flow down like a river day and night; give thee no rest, let not the apple of thine eye bleed.

2.19 Arise, O Lord, in the night, at the head of the watches, pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord; lift up your hands to him for the soul of your oppressed ones, who are wrapped in famine at the head of all the streets.

2.20 The Lord saw and considered who had done this, whether women had eaten oxen or the flesh of a ram, whether a priest or a prophet had been killed in the sanctuary of my Lord.

2.21 They lie down in the open fields, young and old; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword. You have killed in the day of your wrath. You have slaughtered without pity.

2.22 You shall call this day the day of my dwelling round about. and there was none that escaped or remained in the day of the wrath of YHVH, which I have smitten, and have multiplied all mine enemies.

3.1 I, the man, saw a poor man in his transgression.

3.2 Darkness, not light, has led me on.

3.3 But he who dwells in me will turn his hand all the day long.

3.4 My flesh and skin have consumed me, my bones are broken.

3.5 He built on me, and he circumcised my head and my thigh.

3.6 He has made me sit in darkness, as if I were a child forever.

3.7 A fence has been set around me, and I will not go out. My burden is heavy.

3.8 Even if I cry out and be saved, my prayer will be heard.

3.9 Fence my ways with nettles, and my paths are crooked.

3.10 A bear in ambush is to me a lion in secret places.

3.11 My ways are rebellious, and my names are deceitful.

3.12 Through his bow he made me like a raindrop.

3.13 He brought forth in my reins the sons of his kinsmen.

3.14 I would play to all my people their music all day long.

3.15 Satisfy me with bitterness, the wormwood of the wormwood

3.16 And he shall crush with gravel the two that are defiled with ashes.

3.17 And you have forsaken the peace of my soul, my good wife.

3.18 And I said, My hope is perished forever, and my hope is from YHVH.

3.19 Remember the poor and needy, the wormwood and the head

3.20 Remember, remember, and my soul shall speak unto me.

3.21 This I will return to my heart, therefore I will be glad.

3.22 The mercies of YHVH are uncountable, because his compassions fail not.

3.23 New moons and mornings, great is your faith.

3.24 My soul saith, My portion is in YHVH. therefore will I beseech him.

3.25 The LORD is good, for the soul that seeks him will seek him.

3.26 It is good and right to wait for the salvation of YHVH.

3.27 It is good for a man to bear his burdens in his youth.

3.28 He sat alone and his hand was taken away, because he had taken upon himself

3.29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, perhaps there is hope.

3.30 He will give his life to the one who strikes him, he will be satisfied with disgrace.

3.31 For my Lord will never forsake me.

3.32 But he is thoughtful and compassionate according to the abundance of his mercy.

3.33 For he answered not in his heart, nor any man's son.

3.34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the land

3.35 To pervert a man's judgment against the face of the Most High

3.36 The Lord has not seen a man's anger against his enemy.

3.37 Who is this that said, "And it shall be, my Lord, and He did not command?"

3.38 Out of the mouth of the Most High comes neither evil nor good.

3.39 Why should a living man complain, having overcome his sin?

3.40 We have searched and searched our ways, and returned unto YHVH.

3.41 Lift up our hearts to the Lord in heaven.

3.42 We have sinned and rebelled, you have not forgiven us.

3.43 You struck us with your nose and persecuted us, you killed us and did not pity us.

3.44 The shelter in the cloud, you go through prayer.

3.45 You will make us a reproach and a disgrace among the nations.

3.46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

3.47 Fear and loss were our burden and our brokenness.

3.48 My eyes are like streams of water, they are poured out on the brokenness of the daughter of my people.

3.49 My eyes are filled with tears, and I cannot imagine where they are coming from.

3.50 Until YHVH look down from heaven and see,

3.51 My eyes have spoiled my soul from all the daughters of my city.

3.52 The Sidonian hunted like a bird of prey for nothing.

3.53 He has put his hand in the pit of my life, and his hand is a stone in me.

3.54 Waters overflowed over my head, I said, I am cut off.

3.55 I have called upon your name, O LORD, from the lowest pit.

3.56 You have heard my voice, do not be silent, listen to my spirit, my salvation.

3.57 You have drawn near on the day I call you, you said, "Do not fear."

3.58 The Lord is my shepherd, the Redeemer of my soul.

3.59 The LORD has seen my affliction, and has judged my cause.

3.60 You have seen all their revenge, all their thoughts against me.

3.61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD, all their thoughts against me.

3.62 My lips are awake, and their reasoning is against me all the day long.

3.63 I watched you sit and stand, I watched you play.

3.64 Repay them YHVH's recompense according to the work of their hands.

3.65 Give them a shield of heart, your grace to them.

3.66 You will pursue them with your anger and destroy them from under the heavens of YHVH.

4.1 How shall gold be blemished, and the good blemish shall be strewn upon the head of every street?

4.2 The precious children of Zion, who were adorned with gold, were considered as worthless scoundrels, the work of the hands of the Creator.

4.3 Even the crocodiles have drawn forth their breasts, they have suckled their young ones, the daughter of my people, to the cruel one, because they are afflicted in the wilderness.

4.4 The tongue of a suckling is sticky, and the children are thirsty, and they have no bread to eat.

4.5 Those who ate delicacies breathed in the courtyards of the craftsmen, embracing wormwood leaves and garbage cans.

4.6 And the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the sin of Sodom, which was overthrown as in a moment, and hands were not restrained.

4.7 Her monks are purer than snow, clearer than milk, redder than pearls, their cut is sapphire.

4.8 Darkness is blacker than darkness; they are not dug in the streets; their skin is scaly on themselves; it is dry as a tree.

4.9 Better were those slain by the sword than those slain by famine, who would multiply the slaughter of the breast.

4.10 The hands of pitiful women, whose children were in their wombs, were bound in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

4.11 The Lord has accomplished his anger, he has poured out his fierce wrath, and he has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has devoured its foundations.

4.12 The kings of the earth and all the inhabitants of the world did not believe that the enemy and the adversary would come to the gates of Jerusalem.

4.13 From the sins of her prophets, from the iniquities of her priests, who shed in her midst the blood of the righteous.

4.14 They wandered in the streets, they were redeemed in blood, they could not touch their clothes.

4.15 They called him an unclean beast, a beast, touch him not. for he is gone forth, and is gone forth. they said among the heathen, they shall no more dwell.

4.16 The face of the Lord shall be seen no more by some. the face of priests shall not be exalted, the elders shall not be gracious.

4.17 Our eyes still fail for our help; we wait in vain; we wait for a nation that will not save.

4.18 Our steps are turned aside, our ends are near, our days are fulfilled, for our end has come.

4.19 Our pursuers were lighter than the eagles of the sky on the mountains; they set us on fire in the wilderness, they lay in wait for us.

4.20 The spirit of our noses, the anointed of the Lord, is taken in their corruption, of whom we said, In whose shadow we shall live among the heathen.

4.21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, I dwell in the land of Uz. upon you also shall pass over the cup, and be drunken, and be filled with joy.

4.22 Your iniquity is ended, O daughter of Zion; I will no longer carry you into exile. Your iniquity is visited, O daughter of Edom, into exile for your sins.

5.1 The LORD remembered what we had done; he looked and saw our disgrace.

5.2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.

5.3 We were orphans, fatherless, our mothers were like widows.

5.4 From our right hand we bought two of our trees for money, they brought them for a price.

5.5 We were persecuted on our necks, we were oppressed, we were not given rest.

5.6 Egypt gave the Assyrians a seven-day supply of bread.

5.7 Our fathers have sinned, not we; we have suffered their iniquities.

5.8 Slaves are his own children, and they have no power over them.

5.9 We will bring our bread at our own risk because of the sword of the wilderness.

5.10 Our skin is like an oven, scorched by the torrents of famine.

5.11 The women of Zion answered in the three cities of Judah.

5.12 The elders were hung by the hands of the elders, their faces not adorned.

5.13 Young men carried ground meat, and young men cut wood.

5.14 Old men from the gate have been captivated by the young men with their music.

5.15 Saturday, the sorrow of our heart has turned into mourning for our illness.

5.16 The crown of our head has fallen; woe to us, for we have sinned.

5.17 For this our heart was troubled, for these our eyes were darkened.

5.18 On Mount Zion, whose name is foxes, they walked on it.

5.19 You, O LORD, will sit on your throne forever and ever.

5.20 Why do you forget us forever and forsake us for so long?

5.21 Bring us back to you, O Lord, and we will return to you as in the past.

5.22 For if we are not satisfied with our satisfaction, you have greatly increased our suffering.