1 How doth the city sit solitary,
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears
3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her,
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.
9 Her filthiness
10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O
12 Is it
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
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed,
15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty
16 For these
17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands,
18 The
19 I called for my lovers,
20 Behold, O
21 They have heard that I sigh:
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