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enemy hath magnified
himself.
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.
11
All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have
given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O L
ORD
, and consider; for I am become
vile.
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 L
ORD
hath afflicted
me
in the day of his fierce anger.
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.
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.
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.
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.
17
Zion spreadeth forth her hands,
and there is
none to comfort her: the L
ORD
hath commanded concerning Jacob,
that
his adversaries
should be
round about him: Jerusalem is
as a menstruous woman among them.
18
The L
ORD
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.
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.
20
Behold, O L
ORD
; 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.
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.
22
Let all their wickedness come before thee; and
do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs
are
many, and my
heart
is
faint.
CHAPTER 2
How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,
and
cast down from
heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2
The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down
in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought
them
down to the ground:
he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3
He hath cut off in
his
fierce anger all the
horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against
Jacob like a flaming fire,
which
devoureth round about.
4
He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he
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