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Lamentations 1

 ² Bitterly she weeps at night,
       tears are upon her cheeks.
       Among all her lovers
       there is none to comfort her.
       All her friends have betrayed her;
       they have become her enemies.

 ³ After affliction and harsh labor,
       Judah has gone into exile.
       She dwells among the nations;
       she finds no resting place.
       All who pursue her have overtaken her
       in the midst of her distress.

 ⁴ The roads to Zion mourn,
       for no one comes to her appointed feasts.
       All her gateways are desolate,
       her priests groan,
       her maidens grieve,
       and she is in bitter anguish.

 ⁵ Her foes have become her masters;
       her enemies are at ease.
       The LORD has brought her grief
       because of her many sins.
       Her children have gone into exile,
       captive before the foe.

 ⁶ All the splendor has departed
       from the Daughter of Zion.
       Her princes are like deer
       that find no pasture;
       in weakness they have fled
       before the pursuer.

 ⁷ In the days of her affliction and wandering
       Jerusalem remembers all the treasures
       that were hers in days of old.
       When her people fell into enemy hands,
       there was no one to help her.
       Her enemies looked at her
       and laughed at her destruction.

 ⁸ Jerusalem has sinned greatly
       and so has become unclean.
       All who honored her despise her,
       for they have seen her nakedness;
       she herself groans
       and turns away.

 ⁹ Her filthiness clung to her skirts;
       she did not consider her future.
       Her fall was astounding;
       there was none to comfort her.
       "Look, O LORD, on my affliction,
       for the enemy has triumphed."

 ¹⁰ The enemy laid hands
       on all her treasures;
       she saw pagan nations
       enter her sanctuary—
       those you had forbidden
       to enter your assembly.

 ¹¹ All her people groan
       as they search for bread;
       they barter their treasures for food
       to keep themselves alive.
       "Look, O LORD, and consider,
       for I am despised."

 ¹² "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
       Look around and see.
       Is any suffering like my suffering
       that was inflicted on me,
       that the LORD brought on me
       in the day of his fierce anger?

 ¹³ "From on high he sent fire,
       sent it down into my bones.
       He spread a net for my feet
       and turned me back.
       He made me desolate,
       faint all the day long.

 ¹⁴ "My sins have been bound into a yoke ^[b];
       by his hands they were woven together.
       They have come upon my neck
       and the Lord has sapped my strength.
       He has handed me over
       to those I cannot withstand.

 ¹⁵ "The Lord has rejected
       all the warriors in my midst;
       he has summoned an army against me
       to ^[c] crush my young men.
       In his winepress the Lord has trampled
       the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

 ¹⁶ "This is why I weep
       and my eyes overflow with tears.
       No one is near to comfort me,
       no one to restore my spirit.
       My children are destitute
       because the enemy has prevailed."

 ¹⁷ Zion stretches out her hands,
       but there is no one to comfort her.
       The LORD has decreed for Jacob
       that his neighbors become his foes;
       Jerusalem has become
       an unclean thing among them.

 ¹⁸ "The LORD is righteous,
       yet I rebelled against his command.
       Listen, all you peoples;
       look upon my suffering.
       My young men and maidens
       have gone into exile.

 ¹⁹ "I called to my allies
       but they betrayed me.
       My priests and my elders
       perished in the city
       while they searched for food
       to keep themselves alive.

 ²⁰ "See, O LORD, how distressed I am!
       I am in torment within,
       and in my heart I am disturbed,
       for I have been most rebellious.
       Outside, the sword bereaves;
       inside, there is only death.

 ²¹ "People have heard my groaning,
       but there is no one to comfort me.
       All my enemies have heard of my distress;
       they rejoice at what you have done.
       May you bring the day you have announced
       so they may become like me.

 ²² "Let all their wickedness come before you;
       deal with them
       as you have dealt with me
       because of all my sins.
       My groans are many
       and my heart is faint."

Lamentations 2

 ^1[d] How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion
       with the cloud of his anger ^[e] !
       He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
       from heaven to earth;
       he has not remembered his footstool
       in the day of his anger.

 ² Without pity the Lord has swallowed up
       all the dwellings of Jacob;
       in his wrath he has torn down
       the strongholds of the Daughter of Judah.
       He has brought her kingdom and its princes
       down to the ground in dishonor.

 ³ In fierce anger he has cut off
       every horn ^[f] of Israel.
       He has withdrawn his right hand
       at the approach of the enemy.
       He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire
       that consumes everything around it.

 ⁴ Like an enemy he has strung his bow;
       his right hand is ready.
       Like a foe he has slain
       all who were pleasing to the eye;
       he has poured out his wrath like fire
       on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.

 ⁵ The Lord is like an enemy;
       he has swallowed up Israel.
       He has swallowed up all her palaces
       and destroyed her strongholds.
       He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
       for the Daughter of Judah.

 ⁶ He has laid waste his dwelling like a garden;
       he has destroyed his place of meeting.
       The LORD has made Zion forget
       her appointed feasts and her Sabbaths;
       in his fierce anger he has spurned
       both king and priest.

 ⁷ The Lord has rejected his altar
       and abandoned his sanctuary.
       He has handed over to the enemy
       the walls of her palaces;
       they have raised a shout in the house of the LORD
       as on the day of an appointed feast.

 ⁸ The LORD determined to tear down
       the wall around the Daughter of Zion.
       He stretched out a measuring line
       and did not withhold his hand from destroying.
       He made ramparts and walls lament;
       together they wasted away.

 ⁹ Her gates have sunk into the ground;
       their bars he has broken and destroyed.
       Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations,
       the law is no more,
       and her prophets no longer find
       visions from the LORD.

 ¹⁰ The elders of the Daughter of Zion
       sit on the ground in silence;
       they have sprinkled dust on their heads
       and put on sackcloth.
       The young women of Jerusalem
       have bowed their heads to the ground.

 ¹¹ My eyes fail from weeping,
       I am in torment within,
       my heart is poured out on the ground
       because my people are destroyed,
       because children and infants faint
       in the streets of the city.

 ¹² They say to their mothers,
       "Where is bread and wine?"
       as they faint like wounded men
       in the streets of the city,
       as their lives ebb away
       in their mothers' arms.

 ¹³ What can I say for you?
       With what can I compare you,
       O Daughter of Jerusalem?
       To what can I liken you,
       that I may comfort you,
       O Virgin Daughter of Zion?
       Your wound is as deep as the sea.
       Who can heal you?

 ¹⁴ The visions of your prophets
       were false and worthless;
       they did not expose your sin
       to ward off your captivity.
       The oracles they gave you
       were false and misleading.

 ¹⁵ All who pass your way
       clap their hands at you;
       they scoff and shake their heads
       at the Daughter of Jerusalem:
       "Is this the city that was called
       the perfection of beauty,
       the joy of the whole earth?"

 ¹⁶ All your enemies open their mouths
       wide against you;
       they scoff and gnash their teeth
       and say, "We have swallowed her up.
       This is the day we have waited for;
       we have lived to see it."

 ¹⁷ The LORD has done what he planned;
       he has fulfilled his word,
       which he decreed long ago.
       He has overthrown you without pity,
       he has let the enemy gloat over you,
       he has exalted the horn ^[g] of your foes.

 ¹⁸ The hearts of the people
       cry out to the Lord.
       O wall of the Daughter of Zion,
       let your tears flow like a river
       day and night;
       give yourself no relief,
       your eyes no rest.

 ¹⁹ Arise, cry out in the night,
       as the watches of the night begin;
       pour out your heart like water
       in the presence of the Lord.
       Lift up your hands to him
       for the lives of your children,
       who faint from hunger
       at the head of every street.

 ²⁰ "Look, O LORD, and consider:
       Whom have you ever treated like this?
       Should women eat their offspring,
       the children they have cared for?
       Should priest and prophet be killed
       in the sanctuary of the Lord?

 ²¹ "Young and old lie together
       in the dust of the streets;
       my young men and maidens
       have fallen by the sword.
       You have slain them in the day of your anger;
       you have slaughtered them without pity.

 ²² "As you summon to a feast day,
       so you summoned against me terrors on every side.
       In the day of the LORD's anger
       no one escaped or survived;
       those I cared for and reared,
       my enemy has destroyed."

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Hebrews 10

Christ's Sacrifice Once for All

 ⁵Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said:
   "Sacrifice and offering you did not desire,
      but a body you prepared for me;
 ⁶with burnt offerings and sin offerings
      you were not pleased.
 ⁷Then I said, 'Here I am—it is written about me in the scroll—
      I have come to do your will, O God.' "^{[a] 8}First he said, "Sacrifices and offerings, burnt offerings and sin offerings you did not desire, nor were you pleased with them" (although the law required them to be made). ⁹Then he said, "Here I am, I have come to do your will." He sets aside the first to establish the second. ¹⁰And by that will, we have been made holy through the sacrifice of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

 ¹¹Day after day every priest stands and performs his religious duties; again and again he offers the same sacrifices, which can never take away sins. ¹²But when this priest had offered for all time one sacrifice for sins, he sat down at the right hand of God. ¹³Since that time he waits for his enemies to be made his footstool, ¹⁴because by one sacrifice he has made perfect forever those who are being made holy.

 ¹⁵The Holy Spirit also testifies to us about this. First he says:
 ¹⁶"This is the covenant I will make with them
      after that time, says the Lord.
   I will put my laws in their hearts,
      and I will write them on their minds."^{[b] 17}Then he adds:
   "Their sins and lawless acts
      I will remember no more."^{[c] 18}And where these have been forgiven, there is no longer any sacrifice for sin.