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          DASV: Lamentations 1 [Alphabetic Acrostic]

1 א How the city sits all alone,
           that was once so full of people!
      She has become like a widow;
          she who was great among the nations!
      She was a princess ruling over the provinces,
          now she is forced into slave labor!
2 ב She weeps bitterly in the night,
          and her tears flow down her cheeks.
      Among all her lovers
          she has no one to comfort her.
      All her friends have betrayed her,
          and become her enemies.
3 ג Judah has gone into exile
          under affliction and harsh labor.
      She lives scattered among the nations;
          she finds no place of rest.
      All her pursuers have overtaken her
          in the midst of her hardships.
4 ד The roads to Zion mourn,
          because no one comes to the festivals.
      All her gates are deserted;
          her priests groan,
           her young women cry,
           and her situation is bitter.
5 ה Her adversaries have become her masters;
          her enemies prosper.
      The LORD has afflicted her
          for the multitude of her rebellions.
      Her young children are led away into captivity
          before the adversary.
6 ו All majesty has departed
          from the daughter of Zion.
      Her princes have become
          like deer unable to find pasture.
      They flee without strength
          before the hunter.
7 ז Jerusalem remembers
     in the days of her poverty and homelessness
          all her treasures owned in days of old.
      When her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
          and there was none to help her.
      The enemies saw her;
          they mock her downfall.
8 ח Jerusalem has sinned so badly
          that she has become unclean.
      All who honored her despise her,
          because they have seen her exposed nakedness.
      She groans and hides her face.
9 ט Her filthiness has soiled her skirts;
          she gave no thought to how it would end.
      Therefore her downfall was astonishing;
          she has no one to comfort her.
     "Look, O LORD, on my misery,
          for the enemy boasts of his victory."
10 י The enemy has reached out his hand
     and seized all her treasures;
      for she has had to watch heathen nations
     invade her holy temple,
      even those whom you prohibited
     from entering into your assembly.
11 כ All her people groan, they search for food.
      They have traded their treasures for food
          just to stay alive.
      "Look, O LORD, and see,
          for I am despised."
12 ל Is it nothing to you,
          all you who pass by?
      Look, and see if there is any sorrow
          like my sorrow,
           which the LORD brought on me,
     when he afflicted me
           in the day of his fierce anger.
13 מ From on high he sent down fire
          into my bones.
      He spread a net for my feet;
          he made me turn back.
      He left me desolate;
          I am faint all the day long.
14 נ My transgressions are strapped on like a yoke,
          tied on by his hand.
      They are lashed on my neck.
     He has sapped my strength.
      The Lord has delivered me into their hands,
          those I cannot withstand.
15 ס The Lord has rejected
          all my warriors in my midst.
      He has called an assembly against me
          to crush my young men.
      The Lord has stomped like in a winepress
          the virgin daughter of Judah.
16 ע For these things I weep;
     my eyes stream with tears,
      because any comforter
     who could help is far from me.
      My children are ravaged
          because the enemy has prevailed.
17 פ Zion reaches out her hands,
          but there is no one to comfort her.
      The LORD has given orders against Jacob,
          that his neighbors should become his foes.
           Jerusalem has become
          filthy refuse among them.
18 צ The LORD is righteous,
          but I have rebelled against his command.
      Please listen, all you peoples,
           and see my sorrow.
      My young women and my young men
          have gone into exile.
19 ק I called for my lovers,
          but they deceived me.
      My priests and elders perished in the city
          while they searched for food to stay alive.
20 ר Look, O LORD,
          for I am in distress.
      My stomach churns,
          my heart is disturbed within me,
           for I have been very rebellious.
      Outside the sword bereaves;
          at home there is only death.
21 ש They have heard that I was groaning,
          yet there was no one to comfort me.
      All my enemies heard of my trouble;
          they are glad that you have done it.
      Bring on the day that you have announced,
          let them become like me.
22 ת Let all their wickedness come before you;
          do to them,
      as you have done to me because of all my sin,
      for my moans are many,
      and my heart is faint.
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