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\v 1 The city that once was full of people is now sitting all alone.
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\q She has become like a widow, though she was a mighty nation.
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\q She was a princess among the nations, but is now forced into slavery.
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\v 2 She weeps and wails in the night, and her tears cover her cheeks.
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\q None of her lovers comfort her.
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\q All her friends have betrayed her. They have become her enemies.
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\v 3 After poverty and affliction, Judah has gone into exile.
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\q She lives among the nations and finds no rest.
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\q All her pursuers overtook her in her desperation.
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\v 4 The roads of Zion mourn because none come to the appointed feasts.
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\q All her gates are desolate. Her priests groan.
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\q Her virgins are sorrowful and she herself is in complete distress.
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\v 5 Her adversaries have become her master; her enemies prosper.
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\q Yahweh has afflicted her for her many sins.
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\q Her little children go into captivity to her adversary.
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\v 6 Beauty has left the daughter of Zion.
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\q Her princes have become like deer that cannot find pasture,
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\q and they go without strength before their pursuer.
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\v 7 In the days of her affliction and her homelessness, Jerusalem will call to mind
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\q all her precious treasures that she had in former days.
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\q When her people fell into the hand of the adversary, no one helped her.
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\q The adversaries saw her and laughed at her destruction.
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\v 8 Jerusalem sinned greatly, therefore, she has become scorned as something that is filthy.
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\q All who honored her now despise her since they have seen her nakedness.
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\q She groans and tries to turn away.
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\v 9 She has become unclean beneath her skirts. She did not think about her future.
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\q Her fall was terrible. There was no one to comfort her.
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\q She cried out, "Look at my affliction, Yahweh, for the enemy has become too great!"
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\v 10 The adversary has put his hand on all our precious treasures.
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\q She has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,
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\q even though you had commanded that they must not enter into your assembly place.
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\v 11 All her people groan as they search for bread.
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\q They have given their precious treasures for food to restore their lives.
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\q Look, Yahweh, and consider me, for I have become worthless.
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\v 12 Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
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\q Look and see if there is anyone else's sorrow like the sorrow that is being inflicted on me,
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\q since Yahweh has tormented me on the day of his fierce anger.
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\v 13 It is from on high that he has sent fire into my bones, and it has conquered them.
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\q He has spread a net for my feet and turned me back.
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\q He has made me constantly desolate and weak.
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\v 14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound together by his hand.
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\q They are knit together and placed upon my neck. He has made my strength fail.
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\q The Lord has given me over into their hands, and I am not able to stand.
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\v 15 The Lord has tossed aside all my mighty men who defended me.
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\q He has called an assembly against me to crush my vigorous men.
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\q The Lord has trampled the virgin daughter of Judah in the winepress.
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\v 16 For these things I weep, my eyes overflow with tears;
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\q for a comforter is far from me, one who restores my life.
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\q My children are desolate because the enemy has conquered me.
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\v 17 Zion has spread her hands wide; there is none to comfort her.
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\q Yahweh has commanded that those around Jacob should be his adversaries.
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\q Jerusalem is something unclean to them.
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\v 18 Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment.
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\q Hear, all you peoples, and see my sorrow.
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\q My virgins and my vigorous men have gone into captivity.
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\v 19 I called for my friends, but they were treacherous toward me.
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\q My priests and my elders perished in the city,
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\q while they sought food to restore their lives.
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\v 20 Look, Yahweh, for I am in distress; my stomach churns,
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\q my heart is disturbed within me, for I have been very rebellious.
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\q Outside, the sword bereaves a mother, inside the house there is only death.
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\v 21 They have heard my groaning, but there is no one to comfort me.
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\q All my enemies have heard of my trouble and they are glad that you have done it.
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\q You have brought the day you promised; now let them become like me.
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\v 22 Let all their wickedness come before you.
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\q deal with them as you have dealt with me because of all my transgressions.
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\q My groans are many and my heart is faint.
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