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The Sorrows of Zion

1How lonely sits the city

That once had many people!

She has become like a widow

Who was once great among the nations!

She who was a princess among the Or districtsprovinces

Has become a forced laborer!

2She weeps bitterly in the night,

And her tears are on her cheeks;

She has no one to comfort her

Among all her lovers.

All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;

They have become her enemies.

3Judah has gone into exile out of affliction

And Lit greatharsh servitude;

She lives among the nations,

But she has not found a resting place;

All those who pursued her have overtaken her

In the midst of Or narrow placesdistress.

4The roads Or toof Zion are in mourning

Because no one comes to an appointed feast.

All her gates are deserted;

Her priests groan,

Her virgins are worried,

And as for Zion herself, it is bitter for her.

5Her adversaries have become Lit headher masters,

Her enemies are Or at easesecure;

For the Lord has Or tormented hercaused her grief

Because of the multitude of her wrongdoings;

Her little ones have gone away

As captives Lit beforeled by the enemy.

6All of her splendor

Is gone from the daughter of Zion;

Her leaders have become like deer

That have found no pasture,

And they have Lit gonefled without strength

Lit Before From the pursuer.

7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness

Jerusalem remembers all her treasures

That were hers since the days of old,

When her people fell into the hand of the adversary

And no one helped her.

The adversaries saw her,

They laughed at her Lit cessationruin.

8Jerusalem sinned greatly,

Therefore she has become an Or abominationobject of ridicule.

All who honored her despise her

Because they have seen her nakedness;

Even she herself groans and turns away.

9Her uncleanness was in her garment’s seams;

She Orremember her final enddid not think of her future.

So she has Lit gone downfallen in an astonishing way;

She has no comforter.

“See, Lord, my affliction,

For the enemy has Or boastedhonored himself!”

10The 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 were not to enter Your congregation.

11All her people groan, seeking bread;

They have given their treasures for food

To restore their Lit soullives.

“See, Lord, and look,

For I am despised.”

12“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way?

Look and see if there is any pain like my pain

Which was inflicted on me,

With which the Lord tormented me on the day of His fierce anger.

13From I.e., heaventhe height He sent fire into my bones,

And it dominated them.

He has spread a net for my feet;

He has turned me back;

He has made me desolate,

Or Sick Faint all day long.

14The yoke of my wrongdoings is bound;

By His hand they are woven together.

They have come upon my neck;

He has made my strength Lit falterfail.

The Lord has handed me over

To those against whom I am not able to stand.

15The Lord has thrown away all my strong men

In my midst;

He has called an appointed Another reading is feasttime against me

To crush my young men;

The Lord has trodden as in a wine press

The virgin daughter of Judah.

16For these things I weep;

Lit My eye, my eye My eyes run down with water;

Because far from me is a comforter,

One to restore my soul.

My children are desolate

Because the enemy has prevailed.”

17Zion stretches out with her hands;

There is no one to comfort her;

The Lord has commanded regarding Jacob

That those around him become his adversaries;

Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.

18“The Lord is righteous,

For I have rebelled against His Lit mouthcommand;

Hear now, all peoples,

And see my pain;

My virgins and my young men

Have gone into captivity.

19I called to my lovers, but they deserted me;

My priests and my elders perished in the city

While they sought food to restore their Lit soulstrength themselves.

20See, Lord, for I am in distress;

My Lit inward parts are in fermentspirit is greatly troubled;

My heart is overturned within me,

For I have been very rebellious.

In the street the sword has made women childless;

In the house it is like death.

21They have heard that I groan;

There is no one to comfort me,

All my enemies have heard of my disaster;

They are joyful that You have done it.

Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed,

So that they will become like me.

22May all their wickedness come before You;

And deal with them just as You have dealt with me

For all my wrongdoings.

For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”