Lamentations 1:1-9
1599 Geneva Bible
Lamentations
1 The Prophet bewaileth the miserable estate of Jerusalem. 5 And showeth that they are plagued because of their sins. The first and second Chapter begin every verse according to the letters of the Hebrew Alphabet. The third hath three verses for every letter, and the fourth is as the first.
1 How doth [a]the city remain solitary that was full of people? she is as a widow: she that was great among the nations, [b]and princess among the provinces, is made tributary.
2 She weepeth continually in the [c]night, and her tears run down by her cheeks: among all her [d]lovers, she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt unfaithfully with her, and are her enemies.
3 Judah is carried away captive, because [e]of affliction, and because of great servitude, she dwelleth among the heathen, and findeth no rest: all her persecutors took her in the straits.
4 The ways of Zion lament, because no man cometh[f]to the solemn feasts, all her gates are desolate: her Priests sigh: her virgins are discomfited, and she is in [g]heaviness.
5 Her adversaries [h]are the chief, and her enemies prosper: for the Lord hath afflicted her, for the multitude of her transgressions, and her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become [i]like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, and of her rebellion, and all her pleasant things that she had in times past, when her people [j]fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversary saw her, and did mock at her [k]Sabbaths.
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is [l]in derision: all that honored her, despise her, because they have seen her filthiness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
9 [m]Her filthiness is in her skirts: she remembered not her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter: O Lord, behold mine affliction: for the enemy [n]is proud.
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- Lamentations 1:1 The Prophet wondereth at the great judgment of God, seeing Jerusalem, which was so strong and so full of people, to be now destroyed and desolate.
- Lamentations 1:1 Which had chief rule over many provinces and countries.
- Lamentations 1:2 So that she taketh no rest.
- Lamentations 1:2 Meaning, the Egyptians and Assyrians, which promised help.
- Lamentations 1:3 For her cruelty toward the poor and oppression of servants, Jer. 34:11.
- Lamentations 1:4 As they used to come up with mirth and joy, Ps. 42:4.
- Lamentations 1:4 Hebrew, bitterness.
- Lamentations 1:5 That is, have rule over her, Deut. 28:41.
- Lamentations 1:6 As men pined away with sorrow and that have no courage.
- Lamentations 1:7 In her misery she considered the great benefits and commodities that she had lost.
- Lamentations 1:7 At her religion and serving of God, which was the greatest grief to the godly.
- Lamentations 1:8 Or, driven away.
- Lamentations 1:9 She is not ashamed of her sin, although it be manifest.
- Lamentations 1:9 Hebrew, hath magnified himself.
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