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Lamentations 1 NASB 1995
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align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">NASB 1995</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/lamentations/1.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><font color="#000000"><b><i>The Sorrows of Zion</i></b></font><font size="1"><br><br></font><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-1.htm" target="_top"><b>1</b></a></span>How lonely sits the city<br> That was full of people!<br> She has become like a widow<br> Who was <i>once</i> great among the nations!<br> She who was a princess among the provinces<br> Has become a forced laborer!<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-2.htm" target="_top"><b>2</b></a></span>She weeps bitterly in the night<br> And her tears are on her cheeks;<br> She has none to comfort her<br> Among all her lovers.<br> All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;<br> They have become her enemies.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-3.htm" target="_top"><b>3</b></a></span>Judah has gone into exile under affliction<br> And under harsh servitude;<br> She dwells among the nations,<br> <i>But</i> she has found no rest;<br> All her pursuers have overtaken her<br> In the midst of distress.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-4.htm" target="_top"><b>4</b></a></span>The roads of Zion are in mourning<br> Because no one comes to the appointed feasts.<br> All her gates are desolate;<br> Her priests are groaning,<br> Her virgins are afflicted,<br> And she herself is bitter.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-5.htm" target="_top"><b>5</b></a></span>Her adversaries have become her masters,<br> Her enemies prosper;<br> For the L<font size="1">ORD</font> has caused her grief<br> Because of the multitude of her transgressions;<br> Her little ones have gone away<br> As captives before the adversary.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-6.htm" target="_top"><b>6</b></a></span>All her majesty<br> Has departed from the daughter of Zion;<br> Her princes have become like deer<br> That have found no pasture;<br> And they have fled without strength<br> Before the pursuer.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-7.htm" target="_top"><b>7</b></a></span>In the days of her affliction and homelessness<br> Jerusalem remembers all her precious things<br> That were from the days of old,<br> When her people fell into the hand of the adversary<br> And no one helped her.<br> The adversaries saw her,<br> They mocked at her ruin.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-8.htm" target="_top"><b>8</b></a></span>Jerusalem sinned greatly,<br> Therefore she has become an unclean thing.<br> All who honored her despise her<br> Because they have seen her nakedness;<br> Even she herself groans and turns away.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-9.htm" target="_top"><b>9</b></a></span>Her uncleanness was in her skirts;<br> She did not consider her future.<br> Therefore she has fallen astonishingly;<br> She has no comforter.<br> “See, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, my affliction,<br> For the enemy has magnified himself!”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-10.htm" target="_top"><b>10</b></a></span>The adversary has stretched out his hand<br> Over all her precious things,<br> For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,<br> The ones whom You commanded<br> That they should not enter into Your congregation.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-11.htm" target="_top"><b>11</b></a></span>All her people groan seeking bread;<br> They have given their precious things for food<br> To restore their lives themselves.<br> “See, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, and look,<br> For I am despised.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-12.htm" target="_top"><b>12</b></a></span>“Is it nothing to all you who pass this way?<br> Look and see if there is any pain like my pain<br> Which was severely dealt out to me,<br> Which the L<font size="1">ORD</font> inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-13.htm" target="_top"><b>13</b></a></span>“From on high He sent fire into my bones,<br> And it prevailed <i>over them.</i><br> He has spread a net for my feet;<br> He has turned me back;<br> He has made me desolate,<br> Faint all day long.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-14.htm" target="_top"><b>14</b></a></span>“The yoke of my transgressions is bound;<br> By His hand they are knit together.<br> They have come upon my neck;<br> He has made my strength fail.<br> The Lord has given me into the hands<br> Of <i>those against whom</i> I am not able to stand.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-15.htm" target="_top"><b>15</b></a></span>“The Lord has rejected all my strong men<br> In my midst;<br> He has called an appointed time against me<br> To crush my young men;<br> The Lord has trodden <i>as in</i> a wine press<br> The virgin daughter of Judah.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-16.htm" target="_top"><b>16</b></a></span>“For these things I weep;<br> My eyes run down with water;<br> Because far from me is a comforter,<br> One who restores my soul.<br> My children are desolate<br> Because the enemy has prevailed.”<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-17.htm" target="_top"><b>17</b></a></span>Zion stretches out her hands;<br> There is no one to comfort her;<br> The L<font size="1">ORD</font> has commanded concerning Jacob<br> That the ones round about him should be his adversaries;<br> Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-18.htm" target="_top"><b>18</b></a></span>“The L<font size="1">ORD</font> is righteous;<br> For I have rebelled against His command;<br> Hear now, all peoples,<br> And behold my pain;<br> My virgins and my young men<br> Have gone into captivity.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-19.htm" target="_top"><b>19</b></a></span>“I called to my lovers, <i>but</i> they deceived me;<br> My priests and my elders perished in the city<br> While they sought food to restore their strength themselves.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-20.htm" target="_top"><b>20</b></a></span>“See, O L<font size="1">ORD</font>, for I am in distress;<br> My spirit is greatly troubled;<br> My heart is overturned within me,<br> For I have been very rebellious.<br> In the street the sword slays;<br> In the house it is like death.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-21.htm" target="_top"><b>21</b></a></span>“They have heard that I groan;<br> There is no one to comfort me;<br> All my enemies have heard of my calamity;<br> They are glad that You have done <i>it.</i><br> Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed,<br> That they may become like me.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/lamentations/1-22.htm" target="_top"><b>22</b></a></span>“Let all their wickedness come before You;<br> And deal with them as You have dealt with me<br> For all my transgressions;<br> For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”<p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">NASB 1995 Copyright © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The Lockman Foundation, La Habra, Calif. 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