Lamentations 1:1

Christian Standard Bible

Lament over Jerusalem

א Aleph

1 How^[a] she sits alone,^(A)
the city^(B) once crowded with people!
She who was great among the nations
has become like a widow.^(C)
The princess among the provinces
has been put to forced labor.

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Footnotes

1:1 The stanzas in Lm 1–4 form an acrostic.

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