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Lamentations

1. 1:2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
2. 1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
3. 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
4. 1:18 The LORD 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.
5. 1:20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
6. 1:21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.
7. 2:7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8. 2:10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
9. 2:14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
10. 2:16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
11. 2:22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
12. 3:21 This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.
13. 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
14. 3:42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
15. 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
16. 3:53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
17. 4:10 The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.
18. 4:12 The 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 Jerusalem.
19. 4:13 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,
20. 4:14 They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their garments.
21. 4:17 As 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.
22. 5:4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
23. 5:5 Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no rest.
24. 5:6 We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
25. 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
26. 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
27. 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
28. 5:16 The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!