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Lamentations 1:1-2
The Voice
Lamentations 1:1-2
The Voice
1 [a] Aaghh! Lonely is this city that once bustled with life;
Cheer is empty; like a widow, she is abandoned
and oh, so lonely.
She who was a princess, great among the nations,
has lost everything and been forced to serve as a slave.
2 Bawling, she weeps without constraint every night,
cries herself to sleep, bitter tears streaming down her cheeks.
Her former friends ignore her;
there is no one there to share her sorrow;
Companions contend and have betrayed her;
friends have been unfaithful and turned against her as enemies.
Footnotes
- 1:1 A Hebrew acrostic poem. Each verse begins with a successive letter of the alphabet.
Lamentations 1:1-2
New International Version
Lamentations 1:1-2
New International Version
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
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