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Zion Speaks Out: No One Offers Comfort

12 “Doesn’t this affect all of you who pass by?
    Look and see if there’s any pain
    like the pain that Yahweh has caused me,
    like the pain that he has made me suffer on the day of his fierce anger.
13 He sent fire from above.
    He made it go deep into my bones.
        He spread a net for my feet.
        He made me turn back.
        He has left me devastated.
        He has made me sick all day long.
14 My rebellious acts are a heavy burden for me.
    They were tied together by Yahweh’s own hands.
    They were tied around my neck.
        He has weakened me with them.
        Adonay has handed me over to people I cannot oppose.[a]

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:14 Hebrew meaning of this verse uncertain.

12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?(A)
    Look around and see.
Is any suffering like my suffering(B)
    that was inflicted on me,
that the Lord brought on me
    in the day of his fierce anger?(C)

13 “From on high he sent fire,
    sent it down into my bones.(D)
He spread a net(E) for my feet
    and turned me back.
He made me desolate,(F)
    faint(G) all the day long.

14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke[a];(H)
    by his hands they were woven together.
They have been hung on my neck,
    and the Lord has sapped my strength.
He has given me into the hands(I)
    of those I cannot withstand.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins