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Lamentations 1:1-3
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lamentations 1:1-3
Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lament over Jerusalem
א Alef
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.
ב Bet
2 She weeps aloud during the night,(D)
with tears on her cheeks.
There is no one to offer her comfort,
not one from all her lovers.[b](E)
All her friends have betrayed her;
they have become her enemies.
ג Gimel
3 Judah has gone into exile
following[c] affliction and harsh slavery;
she lives among the nations
but finds no place to rest.(F)
All her pursuers have overtaken her
in narrow places.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:1 The stanzas in Lm 1–4 form an acrostic.
- Lamentations 1:2 = Jerusalem’s political allies
- Lamentations 1:3 Or because of
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