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15 Thus says Yahweh,

(A)A voice is heard in (B)Ramah,
Wailing and bitter weeping.
Rachel is weeping for her children;
She (C)refuses to be comforted for her children
Because (D)they are no more.”

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Her adversaries have become [a]her masters;
Her enemies are complacent;
For [b]Yahweh has (A)caused her grief
Because of the greatness of her transgressions;
Her infants have gone away
As captives before the adversary.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:5 Lit head
  2. Lamentations 1:5 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15