125 lines
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125 lines
3.9 KiB
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# Chapter 1
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1 How lonely sits the city
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That was full of people!
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How like a widow is she,
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Who was great among the nations!
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The princess among the provinces
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Has become a slave!
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2 She weeps bitterly in the night,
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Her tears are on her cheeks;
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Among all her lovers
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She has none to comfort her.
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All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
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They have become her enemies.
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3 Judah has gone into captivity,
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Under affliction and hard servitude;
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She dwells among the nations,
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She finds no rest;
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All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.
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4 The roads to Zion mourn
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Because no one comes to the set feasts.
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All her gates are desolate;
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Her priests sigh,
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Her virgins are afflicted,
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And she is in bitterness.
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5 Her adversaries have become the master,
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Her enemies prosper;
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For the Lord has afflicted her
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Because of the multitude of her transgressions.
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Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.
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6 And from the daughter of Zion
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All her splendor has departed.
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Her princes have become like deer
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That find no pasture,
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That flee without strength
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Before the pursuer.
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7 In the days of her affliction and roaming,
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Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things
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That she had in the days of old.
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When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
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With no one to help her,
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The adversaries saw her
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And mocked at her downfall.
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8 Jerusalem has sinned gravely,
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Therefore she has become vile.
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All who honored her despise her
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Because they have seen her nakedness;
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Yes, she sighs and turns away.
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9 Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
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She did not consider her destiny;
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Therefore her collapse was awesome;
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She had no comforter.
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“O Lord, behold my affliction,
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For the enemy is exalted!”
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10 The adversary has spread his hand
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Over all her pleasant things;
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For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,
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Those whom You commanded
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Not to enter Your assembly.
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11 All her people sigh,
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They seek bread;
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They have given their valuables for food to restore life.
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“See, O Lord, and consider,
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For I am scorned.”
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12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
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Behold and see
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If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
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Which has been brought on me,
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Which the Lord has inflicted
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In the day of His fierce anger.
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13 “From above He has sent fire into my bones,
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And it overpowered them;
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He has spread a net for my feet
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And turned me back;
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He has made me desolate
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And faint all the day.
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14 “The yoke of my transgressions was bound;
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They were woven together by His hands,
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And thrust upon my neck.
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He made my strength fail;
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The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.
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15 “The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;
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He has called an assembly against me
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To crush my young men;
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The Lord trampled as in a winepress
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The virgin daughter of Judah.
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16 “For these things I weep;
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My eye, my eye overflows with water;
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Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
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Is far from me.
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My children are desolate
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Because the enemy prevailed.”
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17 Zion spreads out her hands,
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But no one comforts her;
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The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob
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That those around him become his adversaries;
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Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
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18 “The Lord is righteous,
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For I rebelled against His commandment.
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Hear now, all peoples,
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And behold my sorrow;
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My virgins and my young men
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Have gone into captivity.
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19 “I called for my lovers,
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But they deceived me;
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My priests and my elders
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Breathed their last in the city,
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While they sought food
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To restore their life.
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20 “See, O Lord, that I am in distress;
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My soul is troubled;
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My heart is overturned within me,
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For I have been very rebellious.
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Outside the sword bereaves,
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At home it is like death.
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21 “They have heard that I sigh,
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But no one comforts me.
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All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
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They are glad that You have done it.
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Bring on the day You have announced,
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That they may become like me.
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22 “Let all their wickedness come before You,
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And do to them as You have done to me
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For all my transgressions;
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For my sighs are many,
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And my heart is faint.” |