Category Archives: Lamentations

1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!howis she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations,andprincess among the provinces,howis 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 […]

1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! he hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger. 2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not […]

1 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light. 3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; […]

1 How is the gold become dim!howis the most pure gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out at 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 jackals […]

1 Remember, O what isLord, come upon us: behold, and see our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, our houses unto 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. 5 Our pursuers are upon our […]