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

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Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

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(A)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction[a]
    and hard servitude;
(B)she dwells now among the nations,
    (C)but finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
    in the midst of her distress.[b]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 Or under affliction
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Or in the narrow passes

(A)Judah has gone into exile out of affliction
And [a]harsh servitude;
She lives (B)among the nations,
But she has not found a resting place;
All those who (C)pursued her have overtaken her
In the midst of [b]distress.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 Lit great
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Or narrow places