Lamentations1
1How does the city sit solitary, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations, [and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become tributary!2She weep sore in the night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.3Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwells among the heathen, she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.4The ways of Tziyon [parched place] do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.5Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.6And from the daughter of Tziyon [parched place] all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.7Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in 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 her Shabbat.8Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] has grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighs, and turns backward.9Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembers not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), behold my affliction: for the enemy has magnified [himself].10The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she has seen [that] the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom youi did command [that] they should not enter into youi congregation.11All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and consider; for I am become vile.12[Is it] nothing to you, all you2f that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, which the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.13From above has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them: he has spread a net for my feet, he has turned me back: he has made me desolate [and] faint all the day.14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, [and] come up upon my neck: he has made my strength to fall, the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] has delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise up.15The Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] has trampled under foot all my mighty [men] in the midst of me: he has called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] has trampled the virgin, the daughter of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised], [as] in a winepress.16For these [things] I weep; my eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.17Tziyon [parched place] spreads forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has commanded concerning Ya’akov [Heal of God], [that] his adversaries [should be] round about him: Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] is as a monstrous woman among them.18The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.19I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.20Behold, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate); for I [am] in distress: my bowels (inward parts; affections) are troubled; my heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaves, at home [there is] as death.21They have heard that I sigh: [there is] none to comfort me: all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that youi have done [it]: youi will bring the day [that] youi have called, and they shall be like unto me.22Let all their wickedness come before youi; and do unto them, as youi have done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.1How has the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] covered the daughter of Tziyon [parched place] with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!2The Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up all the habitations of Ya’akov [Heal of God], and has not pitied: he has thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised]; he has brought [them] down to the ground: he has polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.3He has cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God]: he has drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Ya’akov [Heal of God] like a flaming fire, [which] devours round about.4He has bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and killed all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place]: he poured out his fury like fire.5The Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] was as an enemy: he has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up Yisra’el [He Holds Onto The Heel Of God], he has swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed up all her palaces: he has destroyed his strong holds, and has increased in the daughter of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised] mourning and lamentation.6And he has violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he has destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has caused the solemn feasts and Shabbat to be forgotten in Tziyon [parched place], and has despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.7The Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] has cast off his altar, he has abhorred his sanctuary, he has given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), as in the day of a solemn feast.8The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place]: he has stretched out a line, he has not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the fortification (defensive structure) and the wall to (to do entirely, do wholly) lament; they languished together.9Her gates are sunk into the ground; he has destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes [are] among the Gentiles: the law [is] no [more]; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).10The elders of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place] sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace] hang down their heads to the ground.11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels (inward parts; affections) are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.12They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.13How shall I admonish you? To what shall I compare youi? what thing shall I liken to youi, O daughter of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace]? what shall I equal to youi, that I may comfort youi, O virgin daughter of Tziyon [parched place]? for youri breach (breaking forth; a break; opening, inlet) [is] great like the sea: who can heal youi?14Your1s prophets have seen vain and foolish things for youi: and they have not discovered youri iniquity, to turn away youri captivity; but have seen for youi false burdens and causes of banishment.15All that pass by clap [their] hands at youi; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace], [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?16All youi enemies have opened their mouth against youi: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallow (to approve, commend, accept)ed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].17The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has done [that] which he had devised; he has fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he has thrown down, and has not pitied: and he has caused [youi] enemy to rejoice over youi, he has set up the horn of youi adversaries.18Their heart cried unto the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things], O wall of the daughter of Tziyon [parched place], let tears run down like a river day and night: give yourself no rest; let not the apple of youi eye cease.19Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out youi heart like water before the face of the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things]: lift up youi hands toward him for the life of youi young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.20Behold, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and consider to whom youi have done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things]?21The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; youi have slain [them] in the day of youi anger; youi have killed, [and] not pitied.22youi have called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up has my enemy consumed.1I [am] the man [that] has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.2He has led me, and brought [me into] darkness, but not [into] light.3Surely against me is he turned; he turns his hand [against me] all the day.4My flesh and my skin has he made old; he has broken my bones.5He has built against me, and compassed [me] with gall (something bitter or poisonous) and travail.6He has set me in dark places, as [they that be] dead of old.7He has hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he has made my chain heavy.8Also when I cry and shout, he shuts out my prayer.9He has enclosed my ways with cut stone, he has made my paths crooked.10He [was] unto me [as] a bear lying in wait, [and as] a lion in secret places.11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he has made me desolate.12He has bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.13He has caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins (literally, kidneys; figuratively, seat of emotion).14I was a ridicule (laughing at enemies’ threats) to all my people; [and] their song all the day.15He has filled me with bitterness, he has made me drunken with wormwood.16He has also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he has covered me with ashes.17And youi have removed my soul far off from peace: I forgot prosperity.18And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate):19Remembering my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall (something bitter or poisonous).20My soul has [them] still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.21This I recall to (to do entirely, do wholly) my mind, therefore have I hope.22[It is of] the LORD-Yehōvah’s [Messiah Pre-Incarnate] mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.23[They are] new every morning: great [is] youi faithfulness.24The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] my portion, says my soul; therefore will I hope in him.25The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) [is] good unto them that wait for him, to the soul [that] seeks him.26[It is] good that [a man] should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).27[It is] good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.28He sits alone and keeps silence, because he has borne [it] upon him.29He puts his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.30He gives [his] cheek to him that smites him: he is filled full with reproach (disgrace; shame).31For the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] will not cast off forever:32But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.33For he does not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.34To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,35To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,36To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] approves not.37Who [is] he [that] says, and it comes to pass, [when] the Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things] commands [it] not?38Out of the mouth of the most High proceeds not evil and good?39For what reason does a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?40Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).41Let us lift up our heart with [our] hands unto God-Elōhīm (The Living Word) [The Many Powered] in the heavens.42We have transgressed and have rebelled: youi have not pardoned.43youi have covered with anger, and persecuted us: youi have slain, youi have not pitied.44youi have covered yourself with a cloud, that [our] prayer should not pass through.45youi have made us [as] the outcast and refuse in the midst of the people.46All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.47Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.48Mine eye runs down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.49Mine eye trickles down, and ceases not, without any intermission,50Till the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) look down, and behold from heaven.51Mine eye affects my heart because of all the daughters of my city.52Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.53They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.54Waters flowed over my head; [then] I said, I am cut off.55I called upon youi name, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), out of the low dungeon.56youi have heard my voice: hide not youi ear at my breathing, at my cry.57youi drew near in the day [that] I called upon youi: youi said, Fear not.58O Lord-Adonai (The Father) [Greatest Above All Things], youi have pleaded the causes of my soul; youi have redeemed my life.59O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), youi have seen my wrong: judge youi my cause.60youi have seen all their vengeance [and] all their imaginations against me.61youi have heard their reproach (disgrace; shame), O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), [and] all their imaginations against me;62The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.63Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I [am] their music.64Render unto them a recompense, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), according to the work of their hands.65Give them sorrow of heart, youi curse unto them.66Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate).1How is the gold become dim! [how] is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.2The precious sons of Tziyon [parched place], comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!3Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter of my people [is become] cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.4The tongue of the sucking child cleaves to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, [and] no man breaks [it] unto them.5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.6For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of S’dom [Burning], that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands detained (held) on her.7Her N’zirim [consecrated ones] were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy (reddish hair or complexion) in body than rubies, their polishing [was] of sapphire:8Their visage (appearance; face; look of a person) is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.9[They that be] slain with the sword are better than [they that be] slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for [want of] the fruits of the field.10The hands of the pitiful women have coocked (boiled) their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.11The LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has accomplished his fury; he has poured out his fierce anger, and has kindled a fire in Tziyon [parched place], and it has devoured the foundations thereof.12The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Yerushalayim [Foundation of Peace].13For the sins of her prophets, [and] the iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,14They have wandered [as] blind [men] in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.15They cried unto them, Depart you2f; [it is] unclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn [there].16The anger of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate) has divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.17As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a nation [that] could not save [us].18They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.19Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.20The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.21Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom [Red], that dwell in the land of ‘Utz [wooded]; the cup also shall pass through unto youi: youi shall be drunken, and shall make yourself naked.22The punishment of youi iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Tziyon [parched place]; he will no more carry youi away into captivity: he will visit youi iniquity, O daughter of Edom [Red]; he will discover (uncover; reveal; have first sight of) youi sins.1Remember, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach (disgrace; shame).2Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.3We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers [are] as widows.4We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.5Our necks [are] under persecution: we labour, [and] have no rest.6We have given the hand [to] the Mitzri, [and to] the children of Ashur, to be satisfied with bread.7Our fathers have sinned, [and are] not; and we have borne their iniquities.8Servants have ruled over us: [there is] none that does deliver [us] out of their hand.9We got our bread with [the peril of] our lives because of the sword of the wilderness.10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.11They ravished the women in Tziyon [parched place], [and] the maids in the cities of Y’hudah [Let Him (God) Be Praised].12Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.16The crown is fallen [from] our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!17For this our heart is faint; for these [things] our eyes are dim.18Because of the mountain of Tziyon [parched place], which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.19youi, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), remain forever; youri throne from generation to generation.20For what reason do youi forget us forever, [and] forsake us so long time?21Turn youi us unto youi, O LORD-Yehōvah (Messiah Pre-Incarnate), and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.22But youi have utterly rejected us; youi are very exceedingly angry against us.
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