19 “A gazelle[a] lies slain on your heights, Israel.
    How the mighty(A) have fallen!(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 1:19 Gazelle here symbolizes a human dignitary.

27 “How the mighty have fallen!
    The weapons of war have perished!”(A)

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25 “How the mighty have fallen in battle!
    Jonathan lies slain on your heights.

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16 The crown(A) has fallen from our head.(B)
    Woe to us, for we have sinned!(C)

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10 Then I took my staff called Favor(A) and broke it, revoking(B) the covenant I had made with all the nations.

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So I shepherded the flock marked for slaughter,(A) particularly the oppressed of the flock. Then I took two staffs and called one Favor and the other Union, and I shepherded the flock.

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[a]How the Lord has covered Daughter Zion
    with the cloud of his anger[b]!(A)
He has hurled down the splendor of Israel
    from heaven to earth;
he has not remembered his footstool(B)
    in the day of his anger.(C)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 2:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.
  2. Lamentations 2:1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt

He grew up before him like a tender shoot,(A)
    and like a root(B) out of dry ground.
He had no beauty or majesty to attract us to him,
    nothing in his appearance(C) that we should desire him.

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The Branch of the Lord

In that day(A) the Branch of the Lord(B) will be beautiful(C) and glorious, and the fruit(D) of the land will be the pride and glory(E) of the survivors(F) in Israel.

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23 Saul and Jonathan—
    in life they were loved and admired,
    and in death they were not parted.
They were swifter than eagles,(A)
    they were stronger than lions.(B)

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The next day, when the Philistines(A) came to strip the dead, they found Saul and his three sons fallen on Mount Gilboa.

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What other nation is so great(A) as to have their gods near(B) them the way the Lord our God is near us whenever we pray to him? And what other nation is so great as to have such righteous decrees and laws(C) as this body of laws I am setting before you today?

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