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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(A)Judah has gone into captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
(B)She dwells among the [a]nations,
She finds no (C)rest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 Gentiles

(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