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Lamentations

1. 1:13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.
2. 1:14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
3. 1:15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
4. 2:2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
5. 2:3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
6. 2:4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
7. 2:5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
8. 2:6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
9. 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.
10. 2:8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
11. 2:9 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; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
12. 2:17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
13. 3:2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
14. 3:3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
15. 3:4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
16. 3:5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail.
17. 3:6 He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.
18. 3:7 He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.
19. 3:8 Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.
20. 3:9 He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.
21. 3:10 He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in secret places.
22. 3:11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.
23. 3:12 He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.
24. 3:13 He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.
25. 3:15 He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken with wormwood.
26. 3:16 He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.
27. 3:27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.
28. 3:28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne it upon him.
29. 3:29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30. 3:30 He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
31. 3:32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.
32. 3:33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
33. 3:37 Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord commandeth it not?
34. 4:11 The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.
35. 4:16 The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.
36. 4:22 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.