Lamentations 2:1 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people
how is she become as a widow she that was was great among the nations, and
princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary
Lamentations 2:2 She
weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her
lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt
treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
Lamentations 2:3 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.
Lamentations 2:4 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 is in
bitterness.
Lamentations 2:5 Her
adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted
her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into
captivity before the enemy.
Lamentations 2:6 And from
the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like
harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the
pursuer.
Lamentations 2:7
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,
and did mock at her sabbaths.
Lamentations 2:8
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.
Lamentations 2:9 Her
filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she
came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction:
for the enemy hath magnified himself.
Lamentations 2:10 The
adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she
hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst
command that they should not enter into thy congregation.
Lamentations 2:11 All her
people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat
to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile.
Lamentations 2:12 Is it
nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow
like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath
afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
Lamentations 2:13 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 and faint all the day.
Lamentations 2:14 The
yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come
up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered
me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up.
Lamentations 2:15 The
Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath
called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden
the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress.
Lamentations 2:16 For
these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the
comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are
desolate, because the enemy prevailed.
Lamentations 2:17 Zion
spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath
commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him:
Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.
Lamentations 2:18 The
LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray
you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone
into captivity.
Lamentations 2:19 I
called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave
up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their
souls.
Lamentations 2:20 Behold,
O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned
within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at
home there is as death.
Lamentations 2:21 They
have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have
heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring
the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.