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,book #be ,lamentations  #jja3jja ,how  
the city sits solitary1 that was full of
 people6          ,she has become as a  
widow1 who was great among the nations6 
,she who was a princess among the       
provinces is become tributary6  #jja3jjb
 ,she weeps sore in the night1 and her  
tears are on her cheeks2          among 
all her lovers she has none to comfort  
her3          ,all her friends have     
dealt treacherously with her2           
they are become her enemies4  #jja3jjc  
,judah is gone into captivity because of
 affliction1 and because of             
great servitude2 she dwells among the   
nations1 she finds no rest3          all
 her persecutors overtook her within the
 straits4  #jja3jjd ,the ways of ,zion  
do mourn1 because none come to the      
solemn assembly2          all her gates 
are desolate1 her priests do sigh3      
her virgins are afflicted1 and she      
herself is in bitterness4  #jja3jje ,her

 adversaries are become the head1 her   
enemies prosper2 for ,yahweh            
has afflicted her for the multitude of  
her transgressions3          her young  
children are gone into captivity before 
the adversary4  #jja3jjf ,from the      
daughter of ,zion all her majesty is    
departed3          her princes are      
become like harts that find no pasture1 
they are gone without strength before   
the pursuer4  #jja3jjg ,jerusalem       
remembers in the days of her affliction 
and of her          miseries all her    
pleasant things that were from the days 
of old3          when her people fell   
into the hand of the adversary1         
and none did help her1 ,the adversaries 
saw her1 they did mock          at her  
desolations4  #jja3jjh ,jerusalem has   
grievously sinned2 therefore she is     
become          as an unclean thing2 all
 who honored her despise her1           
because they have seen her nakedness3   
yes1 she sighs1          and turns      
backward4  #jja3jji ,her filthiness was 

in her skirts2 she didn't remember her  
latter end2          therefore is she   
come down wonderfully2 she has no       
comforter3          see1 ,yahweh1 my    
affliction2 for the enemy has magnified 
himself4  #jja3jaj ,the adversary has   
spread out his hand on all her pleasant 
things3          for she has seen that  
the nations are entered into her        
sanctuary1          concerning whom you 
did command that they should not enter  
into your assembly4  #jja3jaa ,all her  
people sigh1 they seek bread2 they have 
given their pleasant          things for
 food to refresh the soul3  look1       
,yahweh1 and see2          for ,i am    
become abject4  #jja3jab ,is it nothing 
to you1 all you who pass by8  ,look1 and
 see          if there be any sorrow    
like my sorrow1 which is brought        
on me1 ,with which ,yahweh has afflicted
 me in the day          of his fierce   
anger4  #jja3jac ,from on high has he   
sent fire into my bones1 and it prevails
          against them2 ,he has spread a

 net for my feet1 he has turned         
me back3  ,he has made me desolate and  
faint all the day4  #jja3jad ,the yoke  
of my transgressions is bound by his    
hand2          ,they are knit together1 
they are come up on my neck2          he
 has made my strength to fail3  ,the    
,lord has delivered me          into    
their hands1 against whom ,i am not able
 to stand4  #jja3jae ,the ,lord has set 
at nothing all my mighty men in the     
midst of me2          ,he has called a  
solemn assembly against me to crush my  
young men3          ,the ,lord has      
trodden as in a winepress the virgin    
daughter of ,judah4  #jja3jaf ,for these
 things ,i weep2 my eye1 my eye runs    
down with water2          ,because the  
comforter who should refresh my soul is 
far from me3          ,my children are  
desolate1 because the enemy has         
prevailed4  #jja3jag ,zion spreads forth
 her hands2 there is none to comfort    
her2          ,yahweh has commanded     
concerning ,jacob1 that those who are   

round          about him should be his  
adversaries3  ,jerusalem is among them  
as an unclean thing4  #jja3jah ,yahweh  
is righteous2 for ,i have rebelled      
against his commandment3                
,please hear all you peoples1 and see my
 sorrow3          ,my virgins and my    
young men are gone into captivity4      
#jja3jai ,i called for my lovers1 but   
they deceived me3          ,my priests  
and my elders gave up the spirit in the 
city1          ,while they sought them  
food to refresh their souls4  #jja3jbj  
,see1 ,yahweh2 for ,i am in distress2 my
 heart is troubled2          ,my heart  
is turned within me2 for ,i have        
grievously rebelled3          ,abroad   
the sword bereaves1 at home there is as 
death4  #jja3jba ,they have heard that  
,i sigh2 there is none to comfort me2   
,all my enemies have heard of my        
trouble2 they are glad that you         
have done it3  ,you will bring the day  
that you have proclaimed1          and  
they shall be like me4  #jja3jbb ,let   

all their wickedness come before you2   
,do to them1          as you have done  
to me for all my transgressions3        
,for my sighs are many1 and my heart is 
faint4  #jjb3jja ,how has the ,lord     
covered the daughter of ,zion with a    
cloud          in his anger6  ,he has   
cast down from heaven to the earth      
the beauty of ,israel1 ,and hasn't      
remembered his footstool          in the
 day of his anger4  #jjb3jjb ,the ,lord 
has swallowed up all the habitations of 
,jacob1 and has          not pitied3    
,he has thrown down in his wrath the    
strongholds          of the daughter of 
,judah2 ,he has brought them down to the
 ground2          he has profaned the   
kingdom and the princes of it4  #jjb3jjc
 ,he has cut off in fierce anger all the
 horn of ,israel2 ,he has          drawn
 back his right hand from before the    
enemy3  ,he has burned          up      
,jacob like a flaming fire1 which       
devours round about4  #jjb3jjd ,he has  
bent his bow like an enemy1 he has stood

 with his right hand          as an     
adversary1 ,has killed all that were    
pleasant to the eye3          ,in the   
tent of the daughter of ,zion he has    
poured out his          wrath like fire4
  #jjb3jje ,the ,lord is become as an   
enemy1 he has swallowed up ,israel2 ,he 
has          swallowed up all her       
palaces1 he has destroyed his           
strongholds2          ,he has multiplied
 in the daughter of ,judah mourning and 
lamentation4  #jjb3jjf ,he has violently
 taken away his tent1 as if it were of a
 garden2          he has destroyed his  
place of assembly3  ,yahweh has caused  
solemn          assembly and ,sabbath to
 be forgotten in ,zion1 ,has despised   
in the indignation of his anger the king
 and the priest4  #jjb3jjg ,the ,lord   
has cast off his altar1 he has abhorred 
his sanctuary2          ,he has given up
 into the hand of the enemy the walls of
 her palaces3          ,they have made a
 noise in the house of ,yahweh1 as in   
the day          of a solemn assembly4  

#jjb3jjh ,yahweh has purposed to destroy
 the wall of the daughter          of   
,zion2 ,he has stretched out the line1  
he has not withdrawn his          hand  
from destroying2 ,he has made the       
rampart and wall to lament2             
they languish together4  #jjb3jji ,her  
gates are sunk into the ground2 he has  
destroyed and broken          her bars3 
,her king and her princes are among the 
nations where          the law is not2  
,yes1 her prophets find no vision from  
,yahweh4  #jjb3jaj ,the elders of the   
daughter of ,zion sit on the ground1    
they keep silence2 ,they have cast up   
dust on their heads2          they have 
girded themselves with sackcloth3  ,the 
virgins          of ,jerusalem hang down
 their heads to the ground4  #jjb3jaa   
,my eyes do fail with tears1 my heart is
 troubled2 ,my liver is          poured 
on the earth1 because of the destruction
 of the daughter          of my people1 
,because the young children and the     
infants          swoon in the streets of

 the city4  #jjb3jab ,they tell their   
mothers1 ,where is grain and wine8      
,when they swoon as the wounded in the  
streets of the city1          ,when     
their soul is poured out into their     
mothers' bosom4  #jjb3jac ,what shall ,i
 testify to you8 what shall ,i liken to 
you1          daughter of ,jerusalem8   
,what shall ,i compare to you1 that ,i  
may comfort you1 virgin daughter of     
,zion8  ,for your breach          is    
great like the sea3  who can heal you8  
#jjb3jad ,your prophets have seen for   
you false and foolish visions2          
,they have not uncovered your iniquity1 
to bring back your captivity1           
,but have seen for you false oracles and
 causes of banishment4  #jjb3jae ,all   
that pass by clap their hands at you2   
,they hiss and wag          their head  
at the daughter of ,jerusalem1 saying1  
,is this          the city that men     
called ,the perfection of beauty1 ,the  
joy          of the whole earth8        
#jjb3jaf ,all your enemies have opened  

their mouth wide against you2           
,they hiss and gnash the teeth2 they    
say1 ,we have swallowed her up2         
,certainly this is the day that we      
looked for2 we have found1          we  
have seen it4  #jjb3jag ,yahweh has done
 that which he purposed2 he has         
fulfilled his          word that he     
commanded in the days of old2 ,he has   
thrown down1          and has not       
pitied3  ,he has caused the enemy to    
rejoice over you2          he has       
exalted the horn of your adversaries4   
#jjb3jah ,their heart cried to the      
,lord3  wall of the daughter of ,zion1  
let tears run down like a river day and 
night2 ,give yourself          no       
respite2 don't let the apple of your eye
 cease4  #jjb3jai ,arise1 cry out in the
 night1 at the beginning of the watches2
          ,pour out your heart like     
water before the face of the ,lord3     
,lift up          your hands toward him 
for the life of your young children1    
that faint for hunger at the head of    

every street4  #jjb3jbj ,look1 ,yahweh1 
and see to whom you have done thus6     
,shall the women          eat their     
fruit1 the children that are dandled in 
the hands8          ,shall the priest   
and the prophet be killed in the        
sanctuary          of the ,lord8        
#jjb3jba ,the youth and the old man lie 
on the ground in the streets2           
,my virgins and my young men are fallen 
by the sword3          ,you have killed 
them in the day of your anger2 you have 
slaughtered1          and not pitied4   
#jjb3jbb ,you have called1 as in the day
 of a solemn assembly1 my terrors       
on every side2 ,there was none that     
escaped or remained          in the day 
of ,yahweh's anger3  ,those that ,i have
 dandled          and brought up has my 
enemy consumed4  #jjc3jja ,i am the man 
that has seen affliction by the rod of  
his wrath4  #jjc3jjb ,he has led me and 
caused me to walk in darkness1 and not  
in light4  #jjc3jjc ,surely against me  
he turns his hand again and again all   

the day4  #jjc3jjd ,my flesh and my skin
 has he made old2 he has broken my      
bones4  #jjc3jje ,he has built against  
me1 and compassed me with gall and      
travail4  #jjc3jjf ,he has made me to   
dwell in dark places1 as those that have
          been long dead4  #jjc3jjg ,he 
has walled me about1 that ,i can't go   
forth2 he has made          my chain    
heavy4  #jjc3jjh ,yes1 when ,i cry1 and 
call for help1 he shuts out my prayer4  
#jjc3jji ,he has walled up my ways with 
hewn stone2 he has made          my     
paths crooked4  #jjc3jaj ,he is to me as
 a bear lying in wait1 as a lion in     
secret places4  #jjc3jaa ,he has turned 
aside my ways1 and pulled me in pieces2 
he has made me desolate4  #jjc3jab ,he  
has bent his bow1 and set me as a mark  
for the arrow4  #jjc3jac ,he has caused 
the shafts of his quiver to enter into  
my kidneys4  #jjc3jad ,i am become a    
derision to all my people1 and their    
song          all the day4  #jjc3jae ,he
 has filled me with bitterness1 he has  

sated me with wormwood4  #jjc3jaf ,he   
has also broken my teeth with gravel    
stones2 he has covered          me with 
ashes4  #jjc3jag ,you have removed my   
soul far off from peace2 ,i forgot      
prosperity4  #jjc3jah ,i said1 ,my      
strength is perished1 and my expectation
 from ,yahweh4  #jjc3jai ,remember my   
affliction and my misery1 the wormwood  
and the gall4  #jjc3jbj ,my soul still  
remembers them1 and is bowed down within
 me4  #jjc3jba ,this ,i recall to my    
mind2 therefore have ,i hope4  #jjc3jbb 
,it is of ,yahweh's loving kindnesses   
that we are not consumed1               
because his compassion doesn't fail4    
#jjc3jbc ,they are new every morning2   
great is your faithfulness4  #jjc3jbd   
,yahweh is my portion1 says my soul2    
therefore will ,i hope in him4  #jjc3jbe
 ,yahweh is good to those who wait for  
him1 to the soul          that seeks    
him4  #jjc3jbf ,it is good that a man   
should hope and quietly wait for the    
salvation of ,yahweh4  #jjc3jbg ,it is  

good for a man that he bear the yoke in 
his youth4  #jjc3jbh ,let him sit alone 
and keep silence1 because he has laid   
it on him4  #jjc3jbi ,let him put his   
mouth in the dust1 if so be there may be
 hope4  #jjc3jcj ,let him give his cheek
 to him who strikes him2 let him be     
filled          full with reproach4     
#jjc3jca ,for the ,lord will not cast   
off forever4  #jjc3jcb ,for though he   
cause grief1 yet he will have compassion
 according          to the multitude of 
his loving kindnesses4  #jjc3jcc ,for he
 does not afflict willingly1 nor grieve 
the children of men4  #jjc3jcd ,to crush
 under foot all the prisoners of the    
earth1  #jjc3jce ,to turn aside the     
right of a man before the face of the   
,most ,high1  #jjc3jcf ,to subvert a man
 in his cause1 the ,lord doesn't        
approve4  #jjc3jcg ,who is he who says1 
and it comes to pass1 when the ,lord    
doesn't command it8  #jjc3jch ,doesn't  
evil and good come out of the mouth of  
the ,most ,high8  #jjc3jci ,why does a  

living man complain1 a man for the      
punishment          of his sins8        
#jjc3jdj ,let us search and try our     
ways1 and turn again to ,yahweh4        
#jjc3jda ,let us lift up our heart with 
our hands to ,god in the heavens4       
#jjc3jdb ,we have transgressed and have 
rebelled2 you have not pardoned4        
#jjc3jdc ,you have covered with anger   
and pursued us2 you have killed1        
you have not pitied4  #jjc3jdd ,you have
 covered yourself with a cloud1 so that 
no prayer          can pass through4    
#jjc3jde ,you have made us an           
off-scouring and refuse in the midst    
of the peoples4  #jjc3jdf ,all our      
enemies have opened their mouth wide    
against us4  #jjc3jdg ,fear and the pit 
are come on us1 devastation and         
destruction4  #jjc3jdh ,my eye runs down
 with streams of water1 for the         
destruction          of the daughter of 
my people4  #jjc3jdi ,my eye pours down1
 and doesn't cease1 without any         
intermission1  #jjc3jej ,until ,yahweh  

look down1 and see from heaven4         
#jjc3jea ,my eye affects my soul1       
because of all the daughters of my city4
  #jjc3jeb ,they have chased me sore    
like a bird1 those who are my           
enemies without cause4  #jjc3jec ,they  
have cut off my life in the dungeon1 and
 have cast          a stone on me4      
#jjc3jed ,waters flowed over my head2 ,i
 said1 ,i am cut off4  #jjc3jee ,i      
called on your name1 ,yahweh1 out of the
 lowest dungeon4  #jjc3jef ,you heard my
 voice2 don't hide your ear at my       
breathing1          at my cry4  #jjc3jeg
 ,you drew near in the day that ,i      
called on you2 you said1          ,don't
 be afraid4  #jjc3jeh ,lord1 you have   
pleaded the causes of my soul2 you have 
redeemed my life4  #jjc3jei ,yahweh1 you
 have seen my wrong2 judge you my cause4
  #jjc3jfj ,you have seen all their     
vengeance and all their devices against 
me4  #jjc3jfa ,you have heard their     
reproach1 ,yahweh1 and all their        
devices against me1  #jjc3jfb ,the lips 

of those that rose up against me1 and   
their device          against me all the
 day4  #jjc3jfc ,see you their sitting  
down1 and their rising up2 ,i am their  
song4  #jjc3jfd ,you will render to them
 a recompense1 ,yahweh1 according to    
the work of their hands4  #jjc3jfe ,you 
will give them hardness of heart1 your  
curse to them4  #jjc3jff ,you will      
pursue them in anger1 and destroy them  
from under          the heavens of      
,yahweh4  #jjd3jja ,how is the gold     
become dim6 how is the most pure gold   
changed6          ,the stones of the    
sanctuary are poured out at the head    
of every street4  #jjd3jjb ,the precious
 sons of ,zion1 comparable to fine gold1
 ,how are          they esteemed as     
earthen pitchers1 the work of the hands 
of the potter6  #jjd3jjc ,even the      
jackals draw out the breast1 they give  
suck to their          young ones3  ,the
 daughter of my people is become cruel1 
like the ostriches in the wilderness4   
#jjd3jjd ,the tongue of the sucking     

child cleaves to the roof of his mouth  
for thirst3  ,the young children ask    
bread1 and no man breaks          it to 
them4  #jjd3jje ,those who did feed     
delicately are desolate in the streets3 
,those who were brought up in scarlet   
embrace dunghills4  #jjd3jjf ,for the   
iniquity of the daughter of my people is
 greater          than the sin of       
,sodom1 ,that was overthrown as in a    
moment1          and no hands were laid 
on her4  #jjd3jjg ,her nobles were purer
 than snow1 they were whiter than milk2 
,they were more ruddy in body than      
rubies1 their polishing          was as 
of sapphire4  #jjd3jjh ,their visage is 
blacker than a coal2 they are not known 
in the streets3  ,their skin cleaves to 
their bones2          it is withered1 it
 is become like a stick4  #jjd3jji      
,those who are killed with the sword are
 better than those who          are     
killed with hunger2 ,for these pine     
away1 stricken through1          for    
want of the fruits of the field4        

#jjd3jaj ,the hands of the pitiful women
 have boiled their own children2        
,they were their food in the destruction
 of the daughter          of my people4 
#jjd3jaa ,yahweh has accomplished his   
wrath1 he has poured out his            
fierce anger2 ,he has kindled a fire in 
,zion1 which has devoured          the  
foundations of it4  #jjd3jab ,the kings 
of the earth didn't believe1 neither all
 the inhabitants          of the world1 
,that the adversary and the enemy would 
enter          into the gates of        
,jerusalem4  #jjd3jac ,it is because of 
the sins of her prophets1 and the       
iniquities          of her priests1     
,that have shed the blood of the just in
          the midst of her4  #jjd3jad   
,they wander as blind men in the        
streets1 they are polluted          with
 blood1 ,so that men can't touch their  
garments4  #jjd3jae ,depart you1 they   
cried to them1 ,unclean6 depart1 depart1
 don't touch6          ,when they fled  
away and wandered1 men said among the   

nations1          ,they shall no more   
sojourn here4  #jjd3jaf ,the anger of   
,yahweh has scattered them2 he will no  
more regard them3          ,they didn't 
respect the persons of the priests1 they
 didn't          favor the elders4      
#jjd3jag ,our eyes do yet fail in       
looking for our vain help3          ,in 
our watching we have watched for a      
nation that could not save4  #jjd3jah   
,they hunt our steps1 so that we can't  
go in our streets3          ,our end is 
near1 our days are fulfilled2 for our   
end is come4  #jjd3jai ,our pursuers    
were swifter than the eagles of the sky3
          ,they chased us on the        
mountains1 they laid wait for us        
in the wilderness4  #jjd3jbj ,the breath
 of our nostrils1 the anointed of       
,yahweh1 was taken          in their    
pits2 ,of whom we said1 ,under his      
shadow we shall          live among the 
nations4  #jjd3jba ,rejoice and be glad1
 daughter of ,edom1 that dwell in the   
land          of ,uz3  ,the cup shall   

pass through to you also2 you shall     
be drunken1 and shall make yourself     
naked4  #jjd3jbb ,the punishment of your
 iniquity is accomplished1 daughter of  
,zion2          he will no more carry   
you away into captivity3  ,he will visit
          your iniquity1 daughter of    
,edom2 he will uncover your sins4       
#jje3jja ,remember1 ,yahweh1 what has   
come on us3  ,look1 and see our         
reproach4  #jje3jjb ,our inheritance is 
turned to strangers1 ,our houses to     
aliens4  #jje3jjc ,we are orphans and   
fatherless2 ,our mothers are as widows4 
#jje3jjd ,we have drunken our water for 
money2 ,our wood is sold to us4         
#jje3jje ,our pursuers are on our necks3
  ,we are weary1 and have no rest4      
#jje3jjf ,we have given the hand to the 
,egyptians1 ,to the ,assyrians1         
to be satisfied with bread4  #jje3jjg   
,our fathers sinned1 and are no more2   
,we have borne their iniquities4        
#jje3jjh ,servants rule over us3  ,there
 is none to deliver us out          of  

their hand4  #jje3jji ,we get our bread 
at the peril of our lives1 ,because of  
the sword          of the wilderness4   
#jje3jaj ,our skin is black like an     
oven1 ,because of the burning           
heat of famine4  #jje3jaa ,they ravished
 the women in ,zion1 ,the virgins in the
 cities of ,judah4  #jje3jab ,princes   
were hanged up by their hand3  ,the     
faces of elders          were not       
honored4  #jje3jac ,the young men bare  
the mill2 ,the children stumbled under  
the wood4  #jje3jad ,the elders have    
ceased from the gate1 ,the young men    
from their music4  #jje3jae ,the joy of 
our heart is ceased2 ,our dance is      
turned into mourning4  #jje3jaf ,the    
crown is fallen from our head3  ,woe to 
us6 for we have sinned4  #jje3jag ,for  
this our heart is faint2 ,for these     
things our eyes are dim2  #jje3jah ,for 
the mountain of ,zion1 which is         
desolate3  ,the foxes          walk on  
it4  #jje3jai ,you1 ,yahweh1 abide      
forever2 ,your throne is from generation

          to generation4  #jje3jbj ,why 
do you forget us forever1 ,and forsake  
us so long time8  #jje3jba ,turn you us 
to you1 ,yahweh1 and we shall be turned2
          ,renew our days as of old4    
#jje3jbb ,but you have utterly rejected 
us2 ,you are very angry against us4