1 ¶ How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! See also: Isaiah 3:26 1 Kings 4:21 Ezra 4:20 Revelation 18:16-17 Isaiah 54:4
2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. See also: Psalms 6:6 Micah 7:5 Job 19:13-14 Psalms 31:11 Psalms 77:2-6
3 Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. See also: Deuteronomy 28:64-67 Lamentations 2:9 Leviticus 26:36-39 2 Kings 24:14-15 2 Kings 25:11
4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness. See also: Jeremiah 9:11 Joel 1:8-13 Isaiah 24:4-6 Jeremiah 10:22 Jeremiah 14:2
5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. See also: Deuteronomy 32:15-27 Psalms 90:7-8 Jeremiah 30:14-15 Jeremiah 39:9 Ezekiel 8:17-18
6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. See also: Ezekiel 24:25 Leviticus 26:36-37 Deuteronomy 28:25 Deuteronomy 32:30 Joshua 7:12-13
7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths. See also: Psalms 79:4 Deuteronomy 4:34-37 Psalms 42:4 Psalms 77:5-9 Deuteronomy 4:7-8
8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. See also: Isaiah 59:2-13 Lamentations 1:20-22 Jeremiah 13:22 Jeremiah 13:26 Lamentations 1:4-5
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself. See also: Deuteronomy 32:29 Psalms 25:18 Isaiah 47:7 Ecclesiastes 4:1 Lamentations 1:17
10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation. See also: Deuteronomy 23:3 Jeremiah 51:51 Nehemiah 13:1 Psalms 74:4-8 Isaiah 64:10-11
11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and consider; for I am become vile. See also: Jeremiah 52:6 Jeremiah 38:9 Lamentations 2:12 Deuteronomy 28:52-57 1 Samuel 30:11-12
12 ¶ Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger. See also: Daniel 9:12 Luke 23:28-31 Jeremiah 18:16 Jeremiah 30:24 Lamentations 4:6-11
13 From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day. See also: Job 30:30 Habakkuk 3:16 Job 19:6 Psalms 22:14 Ezekiel 17:20
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. See also: Deuteronomy 28:48 Isaiah 47:6 Proverbs 5:22 Jeremiah 28:14 Ezekiel 25:4
15 The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: the Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a winepress. See also: Isaiah 63:3 Isaiah 28:18 Malachi 4:3 Luke 21:24 Hebrews 10:29
16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed. See also: Psalms 119:136 Lamentations 1:2 Jeremiah 13:17 Jeremiah 14:17 Lamentations 2:11
17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them. See also: Jeremiah 4:31 Isaiah 1:15 Lamentations 1:9 2 Kings 24:2-4 2 Kings 25:1
18 The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. See also: Psalms 119:75 1 Samuel 12:14-15 Zephaniah 3:5 Jeremiah 12:1 Lamentations 1:12
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. See also: Lamentations 1:2 Lamentations 1:11 Lamentations 2:20 Job 19:13-19 Jeremiah 2:28
20 Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death. See also: Lamentations 2:11 Deuteronomy 32:25 Proverbs 28:13 Isaiah 16:11 Ezekiel 7:15
21 They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me: all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me. See also: Lamentations 1:8 Psalms 35:15 Jeremiah 50:11 Lamentations 1:16 Lamentations 1:22
22 Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are many, and my heart is faint. See also: Jeremiah 8:18 Revelation 6:10 Psalms 109:14-15 Nehemiah 4:4-5 Psalms 137:7-9