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[Heth.] Peccatum peccavit Jerusalem, propterea instabilis facta est; omnes qui glorificabant eam spreverunt illam, quia viderunt ignominiam ejus: ipsa autem gemens conversa est retrorsum.

[Teth.] Sordes ejus in pedibus ejus, nec recordata est finis sui; deposita est vehementer, non habens consolatorem. Vide, Domine, afflictionem meam, quoniam erectus est inimicus.

10 [Jod.] Manum suam misit hostis ad omnia desiderabilia ejus, quia vidit gentes ingressas sanctuarium suum, de quibus praeceperas ne intrarent in ecclesiam tuam.

11 [Caph.] Omnis populus ejus gemens, et quaerens panem; dederunt pretiosa quaeque pro cibo ad refocillandam animam. Vide, Domine, et considera quoniam facta sum vilis!

12 [Lamed.] O vos omnes qui transitis per viam, attendite, et videte si est dolor sicut dolor meus! quoniam vindemiavit me, ut locutus est Dominus, in die irae furoris sui.

13 [Mem.] De excelso misit ignem in ossibus meis, et erudivit me: expandit rete pedibus meis, convertit me retrorsum; posuit me desolatam, tota die moerore confectam.

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(A)Jerusalem sinned grievously;
    therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
    (B)for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself (C)groans
    and turns her face away.

Her uncleanness was (D)in her skirts;
    (E)she took no thought of her future;[a]
therefore her fall is terrible;
    (F)she has no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
    for the enemy has (G)triumphed!”

10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her (H)precious things;
for she has seen (I)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you (J)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

11 All her people (K)groan
    as (L)they search for bread;
they trade their (M)treasures for (N)food
    to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
    for I am despised.”

12 “Is it nothing to you, all (O)you who pass by?
    (P)Look and see
if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which was brought upon me,
which (Q)the Lord inflicted
    on (R)the day of his fierce anger.

13 “From on high he (S)sent fire;
    into my bones[b] he made it descend;
(T)he spread a net for my feet;
    he turned me back;
(U)he has left me stunned,
    faint all the day long.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:9 Or end
  2. Lamentations 1:13 Septuagint; Hebrew bones and