Lamentations 1:2; Lamentations 1:3; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 1:6; Lamentations 1:7; Lamentations 1:8; Lamentations 1:10; Lamentations 1:11; Lamentations 1:12; Lamentations 1:13; Lamentations 1:15; Lamentations 1:18; Lamentations 1:21; Lamentations 1:22; Lamentations 2:2; Lamentations 2:3; Lamentations 2:4; Lamentations 2:5; Lamentations 2:15; Lamentations 2:16; Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 3:3; Lamentations 3:14; Lamentations 3:34; Lamentations 3:46; Lamentations 3:51; Lamentations 3:60; Lamentations 3:61; Lamentations 3:62; Lamentations 4:1; Lamentations 4:12

Lamentations 1:2

2 She weeps bitterly in the night And her tears are on her cheeks; She has none to comfort her Among all her lovers. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1:3

3 Judah has gone into exile under affliction And under harsh servitude; She dwells among the nations, But she has found no rest; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of distress.

Lamentations 1:4

4 The roads of Zion are in mourning Because no one comes to the appointed feasts. All her gates are desolate; Her priests are groaning, Her virgins are afflicted, And she herself is bitter.

Lamentations 1:6

6 All her majesty Has departed from the daughter of Zion; Her princes have become like deer That have found no pasture; And they have fled without strength Before the pursuer.

Lamentations 1:7

7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her ruin.

Lamentations 1:8

8 Jerusalem sinned greatly, Therefore she has become an unclean thing. All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness; Even she herself groans and turns away.

Lamentations 1:10

10 The 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 should not enter into Your congregation.

Lamentations 1:11

11 All her people groan seeking bread; They have given their precious things for food To restore their lives themselves. "See, O LORD , and look, For I am despised."

Lamentations 1:12

12 "Is it nothing to all you who pass this way? Look and see if there is any pain like my pain Which was severely dealt out to me, Which the LORD inflicted on the day of His fierce anger.

Lamentations 1:13

13 "From on high He sent fire into my bones, And it prevailed over them. He has spread a net for my feet; He has turned me back; He has made me desolate, Faint all day long.

Lamentations 1:15

15 "The Lord has rejected all my strong men In my midst; He has called an appointed time against me To crush my young men; The Lord has trodden as in a wine press The virgin daughter of Judah.

Lamentations 1:18

18 "The LORD is righteous; For I have rebelled against His command; Hear now, all peoples, And behold my pain; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1:21

21 "They have heard that I groan; There is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my calamity; They are glad that You have done it. Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed, That they may become like me.

Lamentations 1:22

22 "Let all their wickedness come before You; And deal with them as You have dealt with me For all my transgressions; For my groans are many and my heart is faint."

Lamentations 2:2

2 The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob. In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.

Lamentations 2:3

3 In fierce anger He has cut off All the strength of Israel; He has drawn back His right hand From before the enemy. And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about.

Lamentations 2:4

4 He has bent His bow like an enemy; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were pleasant to the eye; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire.

Lamentations 2:5

5 The Lord has become like an enemy. He has swallowed up Israel; He has swallowed up all its palaces, He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning.

Lamentations 2:15

15 All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem, "Is this the city of which they said, 'The perfection of beauty, A joy to all the earth '?"

Lamentations 2:16

16 All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth. They say, "We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day for which we waited; We have reached it, we have seen it."

Lamentations 2:19

19 "Arise, cry aloud in the night At the beginning of the night watches; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord ; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street."

Lamentations 3:3

3 Surely against me He has turned His hand Repeatedly all the day.

Lamentations 3:14

14 I have become a laughingstock to all my people, Their mocking song all the day.

Lamentations 3:34

34 To crush under His feet All the prisoners of the land,

Lamentations 3:46

46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.

Lamentations 3:51

51 My eyes bring pain to my soul Because of all the daughters of my city.

Lamentations 3:60

60 You have seen all their vengeance, All their schemes against me.

Lamentations 3:61

61 You have heard their reproach, O LORD , All their schemes against me.

Lamentations 3:62

62 The lips of my assailants and their whispering Are against me all day long.

Lamentations 4:1

1 How dark the gold has become, How the pure gold has changed! The sacred stones are poured out At the corner of every street.

Lamentations 4:12

12 The kings of the earth did not believe, Nor did any of the inhabitants of the world, That the adversary and the enemy Could enter the gates of Jerusalem.