How Lonely Sits the City

(A)How lonely sits the city
    that was full of people!
How like (B)a widow has she become,
    she who was great among the nations!
She who was (C)a princess among the provinces
    has become (D)a slave.

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

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

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:13 Septuagint; Hebrew bones and

16 “For these things (A)I weep;
    my eyes flow with tears;
for (B)a comforter is far from me,
    one to (C)revive my spirit;
my children are desolate,
    for the enemy has prevailed.”

17 (D)Zion stretches out her hands,
    but (E)there is none to comfort her;
the Lord has commanded against Jacob
    that his neighbors should be his foes;
Jerusalem has become
    a filthy thing among them.

18 (F)“The Lord is in the right,
    (G)for I have rebelled against his word;
but hear, all you peoples,
    and see my suffering;
(H)my young women and my young men
    have gone into captivity.

19 “I called to (I)my lovers,
    but they deceived me;
my priests and elders
    perished in the city,
while (J)they sought food
    to revive their strength.

20 “Look, O Lord, for I am in distress;
    (K)my stomach churns;
my heart is wrung within me,
    because I have been very rebellious.
(L)In the street the sword bereaves;
    in the house it is like death.

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