Lamentations 1:1-9 — Legacy Standard Bible

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

²She ^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

⁴The 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

⁵Her 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

⁶So all her ^amajestyHas gone out from the daughter of Zion;Her princes have become like deerThat have found no pasture;So they have ¹^,^bfled without strengthBefore the pursuer.

ז Zayin

⁷In the days of her affliction and homelessness^aJerusalem 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

⁸Jerusalem 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

⁹Her ^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!”