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Zion Lays Desolate
א — Aleph
How alonely sits the cityThat was bgreat with people!She has become like a cwidowWho was once dgreat among the nations!She who was a princess among the 1provincesHas become a eforced laborer!
ב — Beth
2 She aweeps bitterly in the night,And her tears are on her cheeks;She has none to comfort herAmong all her blovers.All her friends have cdealt treacherously with her;They have become her enemies.
ג — Gimel
3 aJudah has gone into exile because of afflictionAnd because of great slavery;She sits bamong the nations,But she has found no rest;All cher pursuers have overtaken herIn the midst of 1distress.
ד — Daleth
4 The roads 1of Zion are in mourningBecause ano one comes to the appointed times.All her gates are bdesolate;Her priests are sighing,Her cvirgins are grieving,And she herself 2is dbitter.
ה — He
5 Her adversaries have become 1her masters;Her enemies are complacent;For 2Yahweh has acaused her griefBecause of the greatness of her transgressions;Her infants have gone awayAs captives before the adversary.
ו — Vav
6 So all her amajestyHas gone out from the daughter of Zion;Her princes have become like deerThat have found no pasture;So they have 1bfled without strengthBefore the pursuer.
ז — Zayin
7 In the days of her affliction and homelessnessaJerusalem remembers all her precious thingsThat were from the days of old,When her people fell into the hand of the adversaryAnd bno one helped her.The adversaries saw her;They claughed at her 1ruin.
ח — Heth
8 Jerusalem sinned agreatly;Therefore bshe has become an impure thing.All who honored her despise herBecause they have seen her nakedness;Even cshe herself sighs and turns away.
ט — Teth
9 Her auncleanness was in her skirts;She did not remember her bfuture.Therefore she has cgone down astonishingly;dShe has no comforter.“eSee, O Yahweh, my affliction,For the enemy has fmagnified himself!”
י — Yodh
10 The adversary has stretched out his handOver all her desirable things,For she has seen the anations enter her sanctuary,The ones whom You commandedThat they should bnot enter into Your assembly.
כ — Kaph
11 All her people are sighing, aseeking bread;They have given their desirable things for foodTo brestore their souls.“See, O Yahweh, and look,For I am cdespised.”
ל — Lamedh
12 “Is ait nothing to all you who pass this way?Look and see if there is any 1pain like my 2painWhich was dealt severely to me,Which bYahweh grieved me with on the day of His cburning anger.
מ — Mem
13 “From on high He sent fire into my abones,And it dominated them.He has spread a bnet for my feet;He has turned me back;He has made me cdesolate,1Faint all day long.
נ — Nun
14 “The ayoke of my transgressions is bound;By His hand they are knit together.They have bcome upon my neck;He has made my strength stumble.The Lord chas given me into the handsOf those against whom I am not able to stand.
ס — Samekh
15 “The aLord has rejected all my mighty menIn my midst;He has called an appointed time against meTo break my byoung men;The Lord has ctrodden as in a wine pressThe virgin daughter of Judah.
ע — Ayin
16 “For these things I aam weeping;1My eyes run down with water;Because far from me is a bcomforter,One who restores my soul.My children are desolateBecause the enemy has prevailed.”
פ — Pe
17 Zion astretches out her hands;There is no one to comfort her;Yahweh has bcommanded concerning JacobThat the ones round about him should be his adversaries;cJerusalem has become an impure thing among them.
צ — Tsadhe
18 “Yahweh is arighteous;For I have brebelled against His 1command;Hear now, all peoples,And cbehold my 2pain;dMy virgins and my young menHave gone into captivity.
ק — Qoph
19 “I acalled to my lovers, but they deceived me;My bpriests and my elders breathed their last in the cityWhile they sought food for themselves in order to crestore their souls.
ר — Resh
20 “See, O Yahweh, for I am in distress;My 1ainmost being is greatly disturbed;My heart is overturned within me,For I have been very brebellious.In the street the sword bereaves;In the house it is like death.
ש — Shin
21 “They have heard that I aam sighing;There is no one to comfort me;All my enemies have heard of the 1evil done to me;They brejoice that You have done it.You have brought the day which You have proclaimed,So that they will become clike me.
ת — Tav
22 “Let all their evil come before You;And adeal severely with them as You have dealt severely with meFor all my transgressions;For my groans are great and my heart is faint.”