Lamentations
Chapter 1
1: How doth 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!
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.
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Lamentations
Chapter 2
1: How hath the LORD covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered nothis footstool in the day of his anger!
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 ha ......More in This Lamentations Book
Lamentations
Chapter 3
1: I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.
2: He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.
3: Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.
4: My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.
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Lamentations
Chapter 4
1: How 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.
2: The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!
3: Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the da ......More in This Lamentations Book
Lamentations
Chapter 5
1: Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2: Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3: We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.
4: We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
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