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11 All her people sigh.
    They seek bread.
    They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul.
“Look, Yahweh, and see;
    for I have become despised.”

12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?
    Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow,
    which is brought on me,
    with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.

13 “From on high has he sent fire into my bones,
    and it prevails against them.
He has spread a net for my feet.
    He has turned me back.
    He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.

14 “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.
    They are knit together.
    They have come up on my neck.
    He made my strength fail.
The Lord[a] has delivered me into their hands,
    against whom I am not able to stand.

15 “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.
    He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men.
    The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.

16 “For these things I weep.
    My eye, my eye runs down with water,
    because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me.
My children are desolate,
    because the enemy has prevailed.”

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  1. 1:14 The word translated “Lord” is “Adonai.”

11 All her people groan(A)
    as they search for bread;(B)
they barter their treasures for food
    to keep themselves alive.
“Look, Lord, and consider,
    for I am despised.”

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

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

14 “My sins have been bound into a yoke[a];(J)
    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(K)
    of those I cannot withstand.

15 “The Lord has rejected
    all the warriors in my midst;(L)
he has summoned an army(M) against me
    to[b] crush my young men.(N)
In his winepress(O) the Lord has trampled(P)
    Virgin Daughter(Q) Judah.

16 “This is why I weep
    and my eyes overflow with tears.(R)
No one is near to comfort(S) me,
    no one to restore my spirit.
My children are destitute
    because the enemy has prevailed.”(T)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:14 Most Hebrew manuscripts; many Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint He kept watch over my sins
  2. Lamentations 1:15 Or has set a time for me / when he will