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Lamentations 1 :: New International Version (NIV)

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How deserted lies the city, once so full of people! How like a widow is she, who once was great among the nations! She who was queen among the provinces has now become a slave.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2 - Bitterly she weeps at night, tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:3 - After affliction and harsh labor, Judah has gone into exile. She dwells among the nations; she finds no resting place. All who pursue her have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 - The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to her appointed festivals. All her gateways are desolate, her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she is in bitter anguish.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 - Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The LORD has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 - All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:7 - In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands, there was no one to help her. Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:8 - Jerusalem has sinned greatly and so has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, for they have all seen her naked; she herself groans and turns away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9 - Her filthiness clung to her skirts; she did not consider her future. Her fall was astounding; there was none to comfort her. “Look, LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10 - The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:11 - All her people groan as they search for bread; they barter their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. “Look, LORD, and consider, for I am despised.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12 - “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see. Is any suffering like my suffering that was inflicted on me, that the LORD brought on me in the day of his fierce anger?

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:13 - “From on high he sent fire, sent it down into my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - “My sins have been bound into a yoke[fn]; by his hands they were woven together. They have been hung on my neck, and the Lord has sapped my strength. He has given me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - “The Lord has rejected all the warriors in my midst; he has summoned an army against me to[fn] crush my young men. In his winepress the Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16 - “This is why I weep and my eyes overflow with tears. No one is near to comfort me, no one to restore my spirit. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:17 - Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed for Jacob that his neighbors become his foes; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:18 - “The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against his command. Listen, all you peoples; look on my suffering. My young men and young women have gone into exile.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 - “I called to my allies but they betrayed me. My priests and my elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20 - “See, LORD, how distressed I am! I am in torment within, and in my heart I am disturbed, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is only death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:21 - “People have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my distress; they rejoice at what you have done. May you bring the day you have announced so they may become like me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:22 - “Let all their wickedness come before you; deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my sins. My groans are many and my heart is faint.”
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Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins
Or has set a time for me / when he will
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Lamentations Chapter 1 — Additional Translations:

King James Version New King James Version New Living Translation English Standard Version Christian Standard Bible New American Standard Bible 2020 New American Standard Bible 1995 Legacy Standard Bible Amplified Bible New English Translation Revised Standard Version American Standard Version Young's Literal Translation Darby Translation Webster's Bible Hebrew Names Version Latin Vulgate Westminster Leningrad Codex Septuagint Smith Van Dyck Arabic Bible Open New Arabic Version Brenton's English Septuagint Reina Valera 1909 Reina-Valera 1960 Bible in Basic English Chinese Traditional Union Espanol Moderno Korean Holy Bible Louis Segond German Luther Russian Synodal Translation Sagradas Escrituras