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Young's Literal Translation

Lamentations

5 chapters

Chapters

Lamentations 1

How hath she sat alone, The city abounding with people! She hath been as a widow, The mighty among nations! Princes among provinces, She hath become tributary!

Lamentations 2

How doth the Lord cloud in His anger the daughter of Zion, He hath cast from heaven [to] earth the beauty of Israel, And hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.

Lamentations 3

I [am] the man [who] hath seen affliction By the rod of His wrath.

Lamentations 4

How is the gold become dim, Changed the best — the pure gold? Poured out are stones of the sanctuary At the head of all out-places.

Lamentations 5

Remember, O Jehovah, what hath befallen us, Look attentively, and see our reproach.