Lamentations 1 - New American Standard Bible (NASB)

The Sorrows of Zion

1 How (A)lonely sits the city
That once had (B)many people!
She has become like a (C)widow
Who was once (D)great among the nations!
She who was a princess among the [a]provinces
Has become a (E)forced laborer!
2 She (F)weeps bitterly in the night,
And her tears are on her cheeks;
She has no one to comfort her
Among all her (G)lovers.
All her friends have (H)dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.
3 (I)Judah has gone into exile out of affliction
And [b]harsh servitude;
She lives (J)among the nations,
But she has not found a resting place;
All those who (K)pursued her have overtaken her
In the midst of [c]distress.
4 The roads [d]of Zion are in mourning
Because (L)no one comes to an appointed feast.
All her gates are (M)deserted;
Her priests groan,
Her (N)virgins are worried,
And as for Zion herself, it is (O)bitter for her.
5 Her adversaries have become [e]her masters,
Her enemies are [f]secure;
For the Lord has [g](P)caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her wrongdoings;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives [h]led by the enemy.
6 All of her (Q)splendor
Is gone from the daughter of Zion;
Her leaders have become like deer
That have found no pasture,
And they have [i](R)fled without strength
[j]From the pursuer.
7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness
(S)Jerusalem remembers all her treasures
That were hers since the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And (T)no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her,
They (U)laughed at her [k]ruin.
8 Jerusalem sinned (V)greatly,
Therefore (W)she has become an [l]object of ridicule.
All who honored her despise her
Because they have seen her nakedness;
Even (X)she herself groans and turns away.
9 Her (Y)uncleanness was in her garment’s seams;
She [m]did not think of her (Z)future.
So she has [n](AA)fallen in an astonishing way;
(AB)She has no comforter.
“(AC)See, Lord, my affliction,
For the enemy has [o](AD)honored himself!”
10 The adversary has stretched out his hand
Over all her precious things,
For she has seen the (AE)nations enter her sanctuary,
The ones whom You commanded
That they were (AF)not to enter Your congregation.
11 All her people groan, (AG)seeking bread;
They have given their treasures for food
To (AH)restore their [p]lives.
“See, Lord, and look,
For I am (AI)despised.”
12 “Is it (AJ)nothing to all you who pass this way?
Look and see if there is any pain like my pain
Which was inflicted on me,
With which the (AK)Lord tormented me on the day of His (AL)fierce anger.
13 From [q]the height He sent fire into my (AM)bones,
And it dominated them.
He has spread a (AN)net for my feet;
He has turned me back;
He has made me (AO)desolate,
[r]Faint all day long.
14 The (AP)yoke of my wrongdoings is bound;
By His hand they are woven together.
They have (AQ)come upon my neck;
He has made my strength [s]fail.
The Lord (AR)has handed me over
To those against whom I am not able to stand.
15 The (AS)Lord has thrown away all my strong men
In my midst;
He has called an appointed [t]time against me
To crush my (AT)young men;
The Lord has (AU)trodden as in a wine press
The virgin daughter of Judah.
16 For these things I (AV)weep;
[u]My eyes run down with water;
Because far from me is a (AW)comforter,
One to restore my soul.
My children are desolate
Because the enemy has prevailed.”
17 Zion (AX)stretches out with her hands;
There is no one to comfort her;
The Lord has (AY)commanded regarding Jacob
That those around him become his adversaries;
(AZ)Jerusalem has become a filthy thing among them.
18 “The Lord is (BA)righteous,
For I have (BB)rebelled against His [v]command;
Hear now, all peoples,
And (BC)see my pain;
(BD)My virgins and my young men
Have gone into captivity.
19 I (BE)called to my lovers, but they deserted me;
My (BF)priests and my elders perished in the city
While they sought food to (BG)restore their [w]strength themselves.
20 See, Lord, for I am in distress;
My [x](BH)spirit is greatly troubled;
My heart is overturned within me,
For I have been very (BI)rebellious.
In the street the sword has made women childless;
In the house it is like death.
21 They have heard that I (BJ)groan;
There is no one to comfort me,
All my enemies have heard of my disaster;
They are (BK)joyful that You have done it.
Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed,
So that they will become (BL)like me.
22 May all their wickedness come before You;
And (BM)deal with them just as You have dealt with me
For all my wrongdoings.
For my groans are many and my heart is faint.”

Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:1 Or districts
  2. Lamentations 1:3 Lit great
  3. Lamentations 1:3 Or narrow places
  4. Lamentations 1:4 Or to
  5. Lamentations 1:5 Lit head
  6. Lamentations 1:5 Or at ease
  7. Lamentations 1:5 Or tormented her
  8. Lamentations 1:5 Lit before
  9. Lamentations 1:6 Lit gone
  10. Lamentations 1:6 Lit Before
  11. Lamentations 1:7 Lit cessation
  12. Lamentations 1:8 Or abomination
  13. Lamentations 1:9 Or remember her final end
  14. Lamentations 1:9 Lit gone down
  15. Lamentations 1:9 Or boasted
  16. Lamentations 1:11 Lit soul
  17. Lamentations 1:13 I.e., heaven
  18. Lamentations 1:13 Or Sick
  19. Lamentations 1:14 Lit falter
  20. Lamentations 1:15 Another reading is feast
  21. Lamentations 1:16 Lit My eye, my eye
  22. Lamentations 1:18 Lit mouth
  23. Lamentations 1:19 Lit soul
  24. Lamentations 1:20 Lit inward parts are in ferment

Cross references

  1. Lamentations 1:1 : Is 3:26
  2. Lamentations 1:1 : Is 22:2
  3. Lamentations 1:1 : Is 54:4
  4. Lamentations 1:1 : 1 Kin 4:21; Ezra 4:20; Jer 31:7
  5. Lamentations 1:1 : 2 Kin 23:35; Jer 40:9
  6. Lamentations 1:2 : Ps 6:6; 77:2-6; Lam 1:16
  7. Lamentations 1:2 : Jer 2:25; 3:1; 22:20-22
  8. Lamentations 1:2 : Job 19:13, 14; Ps 31:11; Mic 7:5
  9. Lamentations 1:3 : Jer 13:19
  10. Lamentations 1:3 : Lev 26:39; Deut 28:64-67
  11. Lamentations 1:3 : 2 Kin 25:4, 5
  12. Lamentations 1:4 : Is 24:4-6; Lam 2:6, 7
  13. Lamentations 1:4 : Jer 9:11; 10:22
  14. Lamentations 1:4 : Lam 2:10, 21
  15. Lamentations 1:4 : Joel 1:8-13
  16. Lamentations 1:5 : Ps 90:7, 8; Ezek 8:17, 18; 9:9, 10
  17. Lamentations 1:6 : Jer 13:18
  18. Lamentations 1:6 : 2 Kin 25:4, 5
  19. Lamentations 1:7 : Ps 42:4; 77:5-9
  20. Lamentations 1:7 : Jer 37:7; Lam 4:17
  21. Lamentations 1:7 : Ps 79:4; Jer 48:27
  22. Lamentations 1:8 : Is 59:2-13; Lam 1:5, 20
  23. Lamentations 1:8 : Lam 1:17
  24. Lamentations 1:8 : Lam 1:11, 21, 22
  25. Lamentations 1:9 : Jer 2:34; Ezek 24:13
  26. Lamentations 1:9 : Deut 32:29; Is 47:7
  27. Lamentations 1:9 : Is 3:8; Jer 13:17, 18
  28. Lamentations 1:9 : Eccl 4:1; Jer 16:7
  29. Lamentations 1:9 : Ps 25:18; 119:153
  30. Lamentations 1:9 : Ps 74:23; Zeph 2:10
  31. Lamentations 1:10 : Ps 74:4-8; Is 64:10, 11; Jer 51:51
  32. Lamentations 1:10 : Deut 23:3
  33. Lamentations 1:11 : Jer 38:9; 52:6
  34. Lamentations 1:11 : 1 Sam 30:12
  35. Lamentations 1:11 : Jer 15:19
  36. Lamentations 1:12 : Jer 18:16; 48:27
  37. Lamentations 1:12 : Jer 30:23, 24
  38. Lamentations 1:12 : Is 13:13; Jer 4:8
  39. Lamentations 1:13 : Job 30:30; Ps 22:14; Hab 3:16
  40. Lamentations 1:13 : Job 19:6; Ps 66:11
  41. Lamentations 1:13 : Jer 44:6
  42. Lamentations 1:14 : Prov 5:22; Is 47:6
  43. Lamentations 1:14 : Jer 28:13, 14
  44. Lamentations 1:14 : Jer 32:3, 5; Ezek 25:4, 7
  45. Lamentations 1:15 : Is 41:2; Jer 13:24; 37:10
  46. Lamentations 1:15 : Jer 6:11; 18:21
  47. Lamentations 1:15 : Mal 4:3
  48. Lamentations 1:16 : Jer 14:17; Lam 2:11, 18; 3:48, 49
  49. Lamentations 1:16 : Ps 69:20; Eccl 4:1; Lam 1:2
  50. Lamentations 1:17 : Is 1:15; Jer 4:31
  51. Lamentations 1:17 : 2 Kin 24:2-4; Jer 12:9
  52. Lamentations 1:17 : Lam 1:8
  53. Lamentations 1:18 : Ps 119:75; Jer 12:1
  54. Lamentations 1:18 : 1 Sam 12:14, 15; Jer 4:17
  55. Lamentations 1:18 : Lam 1:12
  56. Lamentations 1:18 : Deut 28:32, 41
  57. Lamentations 1:19 : Job 19:13-19; Lam 1:2
  58. Lamentations 1:19 : Jer 14:15; Lam 2:20
  59. Lamentations 1:19 : Lam 1:11
  60. Lamentations 1:20 : Is 16:11; Lam 2:11
  61. Lamentations 1:20 : Jer 14:20
  62. Lamentations 1:21 : Lam 1:4, 8, 22
  63. Lamentations 1:21 : Ps 35:15; Jer 50:11; Lam 2:15
  64. Lamentations 1:21 : Is 14:5, 6; 47:6, 11; Jer 30:16
  65. Lamentations 1:22 : Neh 4:4, 5; Ps 137:7, 8

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