Zion's Sorrows come from Jehovah. Lamentation of the Afflicted They hiss and gnash the teeth; 3 I am the man that hath seen they say, We have swallowed her up; Certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it. 17 Jehovah hath done that which he purposed; he hath fulfilled his word that he commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: And he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee; he hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries. 18 Their heart cried unto the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; Give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease. 19 Arise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; Pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord : Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger at the head of every street. 20 See, O Jehovah, and behold to whom thou hast done thus ! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness, 2 and not in light. 3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all theday. 4 My flesh and my skin hath he 3 made old; he hath broken my bones. 5 He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and travail. 6 He hath made me to dwell in dark places, as those that have been long dead. 7 He hath walled me about, that I cannot go forth; he hath made my chain heavy. 8 Yea, when I cry, and call for help, he shutteth out my 21 The youth and the old man lie on Thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast 17 slaughtered, and not pitied. 22 Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors 18 on every side; And there was none that escaped or remained in the day of Jehovah's anger: Those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. 1 Or, finished He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath sated me with wormwood. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones; he hath covered me with ashes. And thou hast 5 removed my soul far off from peace; I forgat prosperity. And I said, My strength is perished, and mine expectation from Jehovah. 19 Remember mine affliction and my 6 misery, the wormwood and the gall. 2 Or, without light 3 Or, worn c 5 Or, cast off Or, wandering Hope of Relief through God's Mercy 20 My soul hath them still in re membrance, and is bowed down complain, a man for the ishment of his sins? 21 This I recall to my mind; there- 40 Let us search and try our w fore have I hope. and turn again to Jehovah. our hands unto God in heavens. 22 It is of Jehovah's lovingkind- 41 Let us lift up our heart v nesses that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. 23 They are new every morning; great is thy faithfulness. 42 We have transgressed and h rebelled; thou hast not doned. 24 Jehovah is my portion, saith my 43 Thou hast 5 covered with an soul; therefore will I hope in him. 25 Jehovah is good unto them that 44 wait for him, to the soul that seeketh him. 26 It is good that a man should 45 hope and quietly wait for the salvation of Jehovah. 27 It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 28 Let him sit alone and keep silence, because he hath laid it upon him. 29 Let him put his mouth in the dust, if so be there may be hope. 46 47 48 30 Let him give his cheek to him 49 that smiteth him; let him be filled full with reproach. 31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever. 32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesses. 50 51 52 33 For he doth not afflict 2 willingly, 35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most 54 3 36 To subvert a man in his cause, 38 Out of the mouth of the Most 39 Wherefore doth a living man Or, He sitteth &c. (so through ver. 28-30) from his heart. seeth not. and pursued us; thou h slain, thou hast not pitied. Thou hast covered thyself w a cloud, so that no prayer pass through. Thou hast made us an offscour and refuse in the midst of peoples. All our enemies have oper their mouth wide against Fear and the pit are come up us, "devastation and destructi Mine eye runneth down w streams of water, for the struction of the daughter my people. Mine eye poureth down, a Till Jehovah look down, a Waters flowed over my head; 55 I called upon thy name, Jehovah, out of the lowe dungeon. Distress of the Siege described 58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life. 59 O Jehovah, thou hast seen my wrong; judge thou my cause. 60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their devices against me. 61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O Jehovah, and all their devices against me, 62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day. 63 Behold thou their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their of my people is greater than 4 the sin of Sodom, That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands 5 were laid upon her. 7 Her nobles were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk; They were more ruddy in body than 7 rubies, their polishing was as of sapphire. 8 Their visage is 8 blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. 9 They that are slain with the sword are better than they that are slain with hunger; For these pine away, stricken through, for want of the fruits of the field. 10 11 9 The hands of the pitiful women And he hath kindled a fire in as 12 The kings of the earth believed not, neither all the inhabitants of the world, earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 3 Even the jackals draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: That the adversary and the enemy would enter into the gates of Jerusalem. The daughter of my people is 13 It is because of the sins of her become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness. prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, That have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her. They wander as blind men in the streets, they are polluted with blood, So that men cannot touch their garments. Depart ye, they cried unto them, Unclean! depart, depart, touch not! 4 Or, the punishment of the sin 5 Or, fell See 2 S. 3. 29. 6 Or, Nazirit 7 Or, corals 8 Heb. darker than black Heb. flow away. Miseries of the Captivity bewailed Our houses unto aliens. 3 We are orphans and fatherless Our mothers are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water money; Our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our pursuers are upon ( necks: We are weary, and have no re 6 We have given the hand to t Egyptians, And to the Assyrians, to be s isfied with bread. 7 Our fathers sinned, and are no And we have borne their iniq ties. 8 Servants rule over us: There is none to deliver us out their hand. 9 We get our bread at the peril our lives, 10 Jehovah, was 11 taken in their pits; Of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the nations. 21 Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Úz: The cup shall pass through unto thee also; thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked. 22 3 The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will uncover thy sins. Remember, O Jehovah, what is come upon us : Behold, and see our reproach. 2 Our inheritance is turned unto strangers, 1 Or, Yea 2 Heb. face. 3 Or, Thine iniquity hath an end Because of the sword of the w derness. Our skin is 5 black like an oven They ravished the women The virgins in the cities 12 Princes were hanged up by the hand: 13 The faces of elders were n honored. The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled und the wood. 14 The elders have ceased from th gate, 15 The young men from their musi The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mour Prayer for Mercy 19 Thou, O Jehovah, 1abidest for 21 Turn thou us unto thee, O Jeho ever; Thy throne is from generation to generation. 20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, And forsake us so long time? 1 Or, sittest as King vah, and we shall be turned; Renew our days as of old. 22 2 But thou hast utterly rejected us; Thou art very wroth against us. 2 Or, Unless thou... and art &c. |