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Lamentations

1. 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.
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. 1:19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls.
4. 1:22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
5. 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.
6. 2:12 They 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.
7. 2:15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
8. 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.
9. 2:18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
10. 2:20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast 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?
11. 3:14 I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the day.
12. 3:46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
13. 3:60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their imaginations against me.
14. 3:61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their imaginations against me;
15. 3:62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
16. 3:63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.
17. 3:64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
18. 4:3 Even 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.
19. 4:7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of sapphire:
20. 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.
21. 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.
22. 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.
23. 4:20 The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.
24. 5:7 Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne their iniquities.
25. 5:8 Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver us out of their hand.
26. 5:12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
27. 5:14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.