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Lamentations 1 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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Jerusalem in Affliction
The Sorrows of Captive Zion

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:1 - How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
How like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The princess among the provinces
Has become a slave!

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:2 - She weeps bitterly in the night,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
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 captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
She dwells among the nations,
She finds no rest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:4 - The roads to Zion mourn
Because no one comes to the set feasts.
All her gates are desolate;
Her priests sigh,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she is in bitterness.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:5 - Her adversaries have become the master,
Her enemies prosper;
For the LORD has afflicted her
Because of the multitude of her transgressions.
Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:6 - And from the daughter of Zion
All her splendor has departed.
Her princes have become like deer
That find no pasture,
That flee without strength
Before the pursuer.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:7 - In the days of her affliction and roaming,
Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things
That she had in the days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
With no one to help her,
The adversaries saw her
And mocked at her downfall.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:8 - Jerusalem has sinned gravely,
Therefore she has become vile.[fn]
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Yes, she sighs and turns away.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:9 - Her uncleanness is in her skirts;
She did not consider her destiny;
Therefore her collapse was awesome;
She had no comforter.
“O LORD, behold my affliction,
For the enemy is exalted!”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:10 - The adversary has spread his hand
Over all her pleasant things;
For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,
Those whom You commanded
Not to enter Your assembly.

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Unchecked Copy Box Lam 1:11

Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:11 - All her people sigh,
They seek bread;
They have given their valuables for food to restore life.
“See, O LORD, and consider,
For I am scorned.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:12 - “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Behold and see
If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
Which has been brought on me,
Which the LORD has inflicted
In the day of His fierce anger.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:13 - “From above He has sent fire into my bones,
And it overpowered them;
He has spread a net for my feet
And turned me back;
He has made me desolate
And faint all the day.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:14 - “The yoke of my transgressions was bound;[fn]
They were woven together by His hands,
And thrust upon my neck.
He made my strength fail;
The Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:15 - “The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;
He has called an assembly against me
To crush my young men;
The Lord trampled as in a winepress
The virgin daughter of Judah.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:16 - “For these things I weep;
My eye, my eye overflows with water;
Because the comforter, who should restore my life,
Is far from me.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy prevailed.”

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:17 - Zion spreads out her hands,
But no one comforts her;
The LORD has commanded concerning Jacob
That those around him become 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 rebelled against His commandment.
Hear now, all peoples,
And behold my sorrow;
My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:19 - “I called for my lovers,
But they deceived me;
My priests and my elders
Breathed their last in the city,
While they sought food
To restore their life.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:20 - “See, O LORD, that I am in distress;
My soul is troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very rebellious.
Outside the sword bereaves,
At home it is like death.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:21 - “They have heard that I sigh,
But no one comforts me.
All my enemies have heard of my trouble;
They are glad that You have done it.
Bring on the day You have announced,
That they may become like me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxLam 1:22 - “Let all their wickedness come before You,
And do to them as You have done to me
For all my transgressions;
For my sighs are many,
And my heart is faint.”
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Vulgate reads her Sabbaths.
Septuagint and Vulgate read moved or removed.
Following Masoretic Text and Targum; Septuagint, Syriac, and Vulgate read watched over.
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