Lamentations 1:11-16
Holman Christian Standard Bible
כ Kaf
11 All her people groan
while they search for bread.(A)
They have traded their precious belongings for food
in order to stay alive.(B)
Lord, look and see
how I have become despised.
ל Lamed
12 Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by?(C)
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the Lord made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?(D)
מ Mem
13 He sent fire from heaven(E) into my bones;
He made it descend.[a](F)
He spread a net for my feet(G)
and turned me back.
He made me desolate,
sick all day long.
נ Nun
14 My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,[b][c](H)
fastened together by His hand;
they have been placed on my neck,
and the Lord has broken my strength.
He has handed me over
to those I cannot withstand.
ס Samek
15 The Lord has rejected(I)
all the mighty men within me.
He has summoned an army[d] against me
to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah(J)
like grapes in a winepress.(K)
ע Ayin
16 I weep because of these things;
my eyes flow[e] with tears.(L)
For there is no one nearby to comfort me,(M)
no one to keep me alive.
My children are desolate
because the enemy has prevailed.
Footnotes
- Lamentations 1:13 DSS, LXX; MT reads bones, and it prevailed against them
- Lamentations 1:14 Some Hb mss, LXX read He kept watch over my transgressions
- Lamentations 1:14 Or The yoke of my transgressions is bound; Hb obscure
- Lamentations 1:15 Or has announced an appointed time
- Lamentations 1:16 Lit my eye, my eye flows
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