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Lamentations 1 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

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The Sorrows of Zion

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
She has become like a widow
Who was once great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the [fn]provinces
Has become a forced laborer!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2 - She weeps bitterly in the night
And her tears are on her cheeks;
She has none to comfort her
Among all her lovers.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3 - Judah has gone into exile [fn]under affliction
And [fn]under [fn]harsh servitude;
She dwells among the nations,
But she has found no rest;
All her pursuers have overtaken her
In the midst of [fn]distress.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:4

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 - The roads [fn]of Zion are in mourning
Because no one comes to the appointed feasts.
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests are groaning,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she herself [fn]is bitter.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:5

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 - Her adversaries have become [fn]her masters,
Her enemies [fn]prosper;
For the LORD has caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her transgressions;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives before the adversary.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 - All her majesty
Has departed from the daughter of Zion;
Her princes have become like deer
That have found no pasture;
And they have [fn]fled without strength
Before the pursuer.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:7

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:7 - In the days of her affliction and homelessness
Jerusalem remembers all her precious things
That were from the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her,
They mocked at her [fn]ruin.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:8 - Jerusalem sinned greatly,
Therefore she has become an unclean thing.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even she herself groans and turns away.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:9

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9 - Her uncleanness was in her skirts;
She [fn]did not consider her future.
Therefore she has [fn]fallen astonishingly;
She has no comforter.
“See, O LORD, my affliction,
For the enemy has magnified himself!”

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:10

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10 - The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her precious things,
For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they should not enter into Your congregation.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:11 - All her people groan seeking bread;
They have given their precious things for food
To restore their [fn]lives themselves.
“See, O LORD, and look,
For I am despised.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12 - “Is it nothing to all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any [fn]pain like my [fn]pain
Which was severely dealt out to me,
Which the LORD inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:13 - “From on high He sent fire into my bones,
And it [fn]prevailed over them.
He has spread a net for my feet;
He has turned me back;
He has made me desolate,
[fn]Faint all day long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - “The yoke of my transgressions is bound;
By His hand they are knit together.
They have come upon my neck;
He has made my strength [fn]fail.
The Lord has given me into the hands
Of those against whom I am not able to stand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - “The Lord has rejected all my strong men
In my midst;
He has called an appointed [fn]time against me
To crush my young men;
The Lord has trodden as in a wine press
The virgin daughter of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16 - “For these things I weep;
[fn]My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a comforter,
One who restores my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:17 - Zion stretches out her hands;
There is no one to comfort her;
The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob
That the ones round about him should be his adversaries;
Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 - “The LORD is righteous;
For I have rebelled against His [fn]command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my [fn]pain;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 - “I called to my lovers, but they deceived me;
My priests and my elders perished in the city
While they sought food to restore [fn]their strength themselves.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:20

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20 - “See, O LORD, for I am in distress;
My [fn]spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
In the street the sword [fn]slays;
In the house it is like death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:21 - “They have heard that I groan;
There is no one to comfort me;
All my enemies have heard of my [fn]calamity;
They are glad that You have done it.
Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed,
That they may become like me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:22 - “Let all their wickedness come before You;
And deal with them as You have dealt with me
For all my transgressions;
For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”
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NASB95 Footnotes
Or, districts
Or, by reason of
Literally: great
Or, narrow places
Or, to
Or, suffers bitterly
Literally: head
Or, are at ease
Literally: gone
Literally: cessation
Literally: did not remember her latter end
Literally: come down
Literally: soul
Or, sorrow
Or, descended, overthrew
Or, Sick
Literally: stumble
Or, feast
Literally: My eye, my eye
Literally: mouth
Or, sorrow
Literally: their soul
Literally: inward parts are in ferment
Literally: bereaves
Literally: evil
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Lamentations Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

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