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<h1>Lamentations</h1>
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<span>
[<a href="#1">1</a> | <a href="#2">2</a> | <a href="#3">3</a> |
<a href="#4">4</a> | <a href="#5">5</a> ]</span>
<hr width="50%" /><div class="book">
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="1">Lamentations 1</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>1 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!</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
<li><span>1 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.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="2">Lamentations 2</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>2 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!</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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?</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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?</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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 ?</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
<li><span>2 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.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="3">Lamentations 3</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>3 1 Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of
his indignation.</span></li>
<li><span>3 2 Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness,
and not into light.</span></li>
<li><span>3 3 Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned
again his hand all the day.</span></li>
<li><span>3 4 Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath
broken my bones.</span></li>
<li><span>3 5 Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath
compassed me with gall and labour.</span></li>
<li><span>3 6 Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are
dead for ever.</span></li>
<li><span>3 7 Ghimel. He hath built against me round about, that I
may not get out: he hath made my fetters heavy.</span></li>
<li><span>3 8 Ghimel. Yea, and when I cry, and entreat, he hath
shut out my prayer.</span></li>
<li><span>3 9 Ghimel. He hath shut up my ways with square stones,
he hath turned my paths upside down.</span></li>
<li><span>3 10 Daleth. He is become to me as a bear lying in wait:
as a lion in secret places.</span></li>
<li><span>3 11 Daleth. He hath turned aside my paths, and hath
broken me in pieces, he hath made me desolate.</span></li>
<li><span>3 12 Daleth. He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark
for his arrows.</span></li>
<li><span>3 13 He. He hath shot into my reins the daughters of his
quiver.</span></li>
<li><span>3 14 He. I am made a derision to all my people, their
song all the day long.</span></li>
<li><span>3 15 He. He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath
inebriated me with wormwood.</span></li>
<li><span>3 16 Vau. And he hath broken my teeth one by one, he hath
fed me with ashes.</span></li>
<li><span>3 17 Vau. And my soul is removed far off from peace, I
have forgotten good things.</span></li>
<li><span>3 18 Vau. And I said: My end and my hope is perished from
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>3 19 Zain. Remember my poverty, and transgression, the
wormwood, and the gall.</span></li>
<li><span>3 20 Zain. I will be mindful and remember, and my soul
shall languish within me.</span></li>
<li><span>3 21 Zain. These things I shall think over in my heart,
therefore will I hope.</span></li>
<li><span>3 22 Heth. The mercies of the Lord that we are not
consumed: because his commiserations have not failed.</span></li>
<li><span>3 23 Heth. They are new every morning, great is thy
faithfulness.</span></li>
<li><span>3 24 Heth. The Lord is my portion, said my soul:
therefore will I wait for him.</span></li>
<li><span>3 25 Teth. The Lord is good to them that hope in him, to
the soul that seeketh him.</span></li>
<li><span>3 26 Teth. It is good to wait with silence for the
salvation of God.</span></li>
<li><span>3 27 Teth. It is good for a man, when he hath borne the
yoke from his youth.</span></li>
<li><span>3 28 Jod. He shall sit solitary, and hold his peace:
because he hath taken it up upon himself.</span></li>
<li><span>3 29 Jod. He shall put his mouth in the dust, if so be
there may be hope.</span></li>
<li><span>3 30 Jod. He shall give his cheek to him that striketh
him, he shall be filled with reproaches.</span></li>
<li><span>3 31 Caph. For the Lord will not cast off for
ever.</span></li>
<li><span>3 32 Caph. For if he hath cast off, he will also have
mercy, according to the multitude of his mercies.</span></li>
<li><span>3 33 Caph. For he hath not willingly afflicted, nor cast
off the children of men.</span></li>
<li><span>3 34 Lamed. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of
the land,</span></li>
<li><span>3 35 Lamed. To turn aside the judgment of a man before
the face of the most High,</span></li>
<li><span>3 36 Lamed. To destroy a man wrongfully in his judgment,
the Lord hath not approved.</span></li>
<li><span>3 37 Mem. Who is he that hath commanded a thing to be
done, when the Lord commandeth it not?</span></li>
<li><span>3 38 Mem. Shall not both evil and good proceed out of the
mouth of the Highest?</span></li>
<li><span>3 39 Mem. Why hath a living man murmured, man suffering
for his sins?</span></li>
<li><span>3 40 Nun. Let us search our ways, and seek, and return to
the Lord.</span></li>
<li><span>3 41 Nun. Let us lift up our hearts with our hands to the
Lord in the heavens.</span></li>
<li><span>3 42 Nun. We have done wickedly, and provoked thee to
wrath: therefore thou art inexorable.</span></li>
<li><span>3 43 Samech. Thou hast covered in thy wrath, and hast
struck us: thou hast killed and hast not spared.</span></li>
<li><span>3 44 Samech. Thou hast set a cloud before thee, that our
prayer may not pass through.</span></li>
<li><span>3 45 Samech. Thou hast made me as an outcast, and refuse
in the midst of the people.</span></li>
<li><span>3 46 Phe. All our enemies have opened their mouths
against us.</span></li>
<li><span>3 47 Phe. Prophecy is become to us a fear, and a snare,
and destruction.</span></li>
<li><span>3 48 Phe. My eye hath run down with streams of water, for
the destruction of the daughter of my people.</span></li>
<li><span>3 49 Ain. My eye is afflicted, and hath not been quiet,
because there was no rest:</span></li>
<li><span>3 50 Ain. Till the Lord regarded and looked down from the
heavens.</span></li>
<li><span>3 51 Ain. My eye hath wasted my soul because of all the
daughters of my city.</span></li>
<li><span>3 52 Sade. My enemies have chased me and caught me like a
bird, without cause.</span></li>
<li><span>3 53 Sade. My life is fallen into the pit, and they have
laid a stone over me.</span></li>
<li><span>3 54 Sade. Waters have flowed over my head: I said: I am
cut off.</span></li>
<li><span>3 55 Coph. I have called upon thy name, O Lord, from the
lowest pit.</span></li>
<li><span>3 56 Coph. Thou hast heard my voice: turn not away thy
ear from my sighs, and cries.</span></li>
<li><span>3 57 Coph. Thou drewest near in the day, when I called
upon thee, thou saidst: Fear not.</span></li>
<li><span>3 58 Res. Thou hast judged, O Lord, the cause of my soul,
thou the Redeemer of my life.</span></li>
<li><span>3 59 Res. Thou hast seen, O Lord, their iniquity against
me: judge thou my judgment.</span></li>
<li><span>3 60 Res. Thou hast seen all their fury, and all their
thoughts against me.</span></li>
<li><span>3 61 Sin. Thou hast heard their reproach, O Lord, all
their imaginations against me.</span></li>
<li><span>3 62 Sin. The lips of them that rise up against me: and
their devices against me all the day.</span></li>
<li><span>3 63 Sin. Behold their sitting down, and their rising up,
I am their song.</span></li>
<li><span>3 64 Thau. Thou shalt render them a recompense, O Lord,
according to the works of their hands.</span></li>
<li><span>3 65 Thau. Thou shalt give them a buckler of heart, thy
labour.</span></li>
<li><span>3 66 Thau. Thou shalt persecute them in anger, and shalt
destroy them from under the heavens, O Lord.</span></li>
</ol>
</div>
<div class="chapter">
<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="4">Lamentations 4</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>4 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?</span></li>
<li><span>4 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?</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 5 He. They that were fed delicately have died in the
streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the
dung.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 7 Zain. Her Nazarites were whiter than snow, purer than
milk, more ruddy than the old ivory, fairer than the
sapphire.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
<li><span>4 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.</span></li>
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<div class="chaptertitle"><a name="5">Lamentations 5</a></div>
<ol>
<li><span>5 1 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and
behold our reproach.</span></li>
<li><span>5 2 Our inheritance is turned to aliens: our houses to
strangers.</span></li>
<li><span>5 3 We are become orphans without a father: our mothers
are as widows.</span></li>
<li><span>5 4 We have drunk our water for money: we have bought our
wood.</span></li>
<li><span>5 5 We were dragged by the necks, we were weary and no
rest was given us.</span></li>
<li><span>5 6 We have given our hand to Egypt, and to the
Assyrians, that we might be satisfied with bread.</span></li>
<li><span>5 7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not: and we have
borne their iniquities.</span></li>
<li><span>5 8 Servants have ruled over us: there was none to redeem
us out of their hand.</span></li>
<li><span>5 9 We fetched our bread at the peril of our lives,
because of the sword in the desert.</span></li>
<li><span>5 10 Our skin was burnt as an oven, by reason of the
violence of the famine.</span></li>
<li><span>5 11 They oppressed the women in Sion, and the virgins in
the cities of Juda.</span></li>
<li><span>5 12 The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did
not respect the persons of the ancient.</span></li>
<li><span>5 13 They abused the young men indecently: and the
children fell under the wood.</span></li>
<li><span>5 14 The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young
men from the choir of the singers.</span></li>
<li><span>5 15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is
turned into mourning.</span></li>
<li><span>5 16 The crown is fallen from our head woe to us, because
we have sinned.</span></li>
<li><span>5 17 Therefore is our heart sorrowful, therefore are our
eyes become dim,</span></li>
<li><span>5 18 For mount Sion, because it is destroyed, foxes have
walked upon it.</span></li>
<li><span>5 19 But thou, O Lord, shalt remain for ever, thy throne
from generation to generation.</span></li>
<li><span>5 20 Why wilt thou forget us for ever? why wilt thou
forsake us for a long time?</span></li>
<li><span>5 21 Convert us, O Lord, to thee, and we shall be
converted: renew our days, as from the beginning.</span></li>
<li><span>5 22 But thou hast utterly rejected us, thou art
exceedingly angry against us.</span></li>
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