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href="../lamentations/2.htm" title="Lamentations 2">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/lamentations/1.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Jerusalem in Affliction</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-1"><span class="text Lam-1-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>How lonely sits the city</span></span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-1"><i>That was</i> full of people!</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-1"><i>How</i> like a widow is she,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-1">Who <i>was</i> great among the nations!</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-1">The princess among the provinces</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-1">Has become a <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>slave!</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>She weeps bitterly in the night,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-2">Her tears <i>are</i> on her cheeks;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-2">Among all her lovers</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-2">She has none to comfort <i>her.</i></span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-2">All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-2">They have become her enemies.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Judah has gone into captivity,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-3">Under affliction and hard servitude;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-3">She dwells among the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>nations,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-3">She finds no rest;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-3">All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>The roads to Zion mourn</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-4">Because no one comes to the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>set feasts.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-4">All her gates are desolate;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-4">Her priests sigh,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-4">Her virgins are afflicted,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-4">And she <i>is</i> in bitterness.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Her adversaries have become <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>the master,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-5">Her enemies prosper;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-5">For the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has afflicted her</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-5">Because of the multitude of her transgressions.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-5">Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>And from the daughter of Zion</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-6">All her splendor has departed.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-6">Her princes have become like deer</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-6"><i>That</i> find no pasture,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-6">That <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>flee without strength</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-6">Before the pursuer.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>In the days of her affliction and roaming,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-7">Jerusalem remembers all her pleasant things</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-7">That she had in the days of old.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-7">When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-7">With no one to help her,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-7">The adversaries saw her</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-7"><i>And</i> mocked at her <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>downfall.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Jerusalem has sinned gravely,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-8">Therefore she has become <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[g]</a></span>vile.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-8">All who honored her despise her</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-8">Because they have seen her nakedness;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-8">Yes, she sighs and turns away.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Her uncleanness <i>is</i> in her skirts;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-9">She did not consider her destiny;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-9">Therefore her collapse was awesome;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-9">She had no comforter.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-9">“O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, behold my affliction,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-9">For <i>the</i> enemy is exalted!”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>The adversary has spread his hand</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-10">Over all her <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[h]</a></span>pleasant things;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-10">For she has seen the nations enter her <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[i]</a></span>sanctuary,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-10">Those whom You commanded</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-10">Not to enter Your assembly.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>All her people sigh,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-11">They <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[j]</a></span>seek bread;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-11">They have given their <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[k]</a></span>valuables for food to restore life.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-11">“See, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, and consider,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-11">For I am scorned.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“<i>Is it</i> nothing to you, all you who <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[l]</a></span>pass by?</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-12">Behold and see</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-12">If there is any sorrow like my sorrow,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-12">Which has been brought on me,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-12">Which the <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has inflicted</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-12">In the day of His fierce anger.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“From above He has sent fire into my bones,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-13">And it overpowered them;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-13">He has spread a net for my feet</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-13">And turned me back;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-13">He has made me desolate</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-13"><i>And</i> faint all the day.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>“The yoke of my transgressions was <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[m]</a></span>bound;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-14">They were woven together by His hands,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-14"><i>And</i> thrust upon my neck.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-14">He made my strength fail;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-14">The Lord delivered me into the hands of <i>those whom</i> I am not able to withstand.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty <i>men</i> in my midst;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-15">He has called an assembly against me</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-15">To crush my young men;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-15">The Lord trampled <i>as</i> in a winepress</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-15">The virgin daughter of Judah.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“For these <i>things</i> I weep;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-16">My eye, my eye overflows with water;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-16">Because the comforter, who should restore my life,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-16">Is far from me.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-16">My children are desolate</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-16">Because the enemy prevailed.”</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Zion <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[n]</a></span>spreads out her hands,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-17"><i>But</i> no one comforts her;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-17">The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> has commanded concerning Jacob</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-17"><i>That</i> those around him <i>become</i> his adversaries;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-17">Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“The <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span> is righteous,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-18">For I rebelled against His <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[o]</a></span>commandment.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-18">Hear now, all peoples,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-18">And behold my sorrow;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-18">My virgins and my young men</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-18">Have gone into captivity.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“I called for my lovers,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-19"><i>But</i> they deceived me;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-19">My priests and my elders</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-19">Breathed their last in the city,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-19">While they sought food</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-19">To restore their life.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“See, O <span style="font-variant: small-caps" class="small-caps divine-name">Lord</span>, that I <i>am</i> in distress;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-20">My soul<span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[p]</a></span> is troubled;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-20">My heart is overturned within me,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-20">For I have been very rebellious.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-20">Outside the sword bereaves,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-20">At home <i>it is</i> like death.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“They have heard that I sigh,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-21"><i>But</i> no one comforts me.</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-21">All my enemies have heard of my trouble;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-21">They are glad that You have done <i>it.</i></span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-21">Bring on the day You have <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[q]</a></span>announced,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-21">That they may become like me.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“Let all their wickedness come before You,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-22">And do to them as You have done to me</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-22">For all my transgressions;</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-22">For my sighs <i>are</i> many,</span><br /><span class="text Lam-1-22">And my heart <i>is</i> faint.”</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-20312a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:1">Lamentations 1:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>forced laborer</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20314b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:3">Lamentations 1:3</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Gentiles</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20315c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:4">Lamentations 1:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>appointed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20316d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:5">Lamentations 1:5</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>her head</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20317e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:6">Lamentations 1:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>are gone</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20318f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:7">Lamentations 1:7</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Vg. <i>Sabbaths</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20319g"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:8">Lamentations 1:8</span> <span class='footnote-text'>LXX, Vg. <i>moved</i> or <i>removed</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20321h"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:10">Lamentations 1:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>desirable</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20321i"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:10">Lamentations 1:10</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>holy place,</i> the temple</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20322j"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:11">Lamentations 1:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>hunt food</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20322k"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:11">Lamentations 1:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>desirable things</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20323l"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:12">Lamentations 1:12</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>pass by this way</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20325m"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:14">Lamentations 1:14</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Tg.; LXX, Syr., Vg. <i>watched over</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-20328n"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Lamentations 1:17">Lamentations 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