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Tet
9
Her uncleanness stains her skirts.
She never considered her end.
Her downfall was astonishing;
there was no one to comfort her.
Lord
, look on my affliction,
for the enemy triumphs!
Her uncleanness stains her skirts.
She never considered her end.
Her downfall was astonishing;
there was no one to comfort her.
Lord
, look on my affliction,
for the enemy triumphs!
Yod
10
The adversary has seized
all her precious belongings.
She has even seen the nations
enter her sanctuary —
those You had forbidden
to enter Your assembly.
The adversary has seized
all her precious belongings.
She has even seen the nations
enter her sanctuary —
those You had forbidden
to enter Your assembly.
Kaf
11
All her people groan
while they search for bread.
They have traded their precious belongings for food
in order to stay alive.
Lord
, look and see
how I have become despised.
All her people groan
while they search for bread.
They have traded their precious belongings for food
in order to stay alive.
Lord
, look and see
how I have become despised.
Lamed
12
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the
Lord
made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?
Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by?
Look and see!
Is there any pain like mine,
which was dealt out to me,
which the
Lord
made me suffer
on the day of His burning anger?
Mem
13
He sent fire from heaven into my bones;
He made it descend.
He spread a net for my feet
and turned me back.
He made me desolate,
sick all day long.
He sent fire from heaven into my bones;
He made it descend.
He spread a net for my feet
and turned me back.
He made me desolate,
sick all day long.
Nun
14
My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,
fastened together by His hand;
they have been placed on my neck,
and the Lord has broken my strength.
He has handed me over
to those I cannot withstand.
My transgressions have been formed into a yoke,
fastened together by His hand;
they have been placed on my neck,
and the Lord has broken my strength.
He has handed me over
to those I cannot withstand.
Samek
15
The Lord has rejected
all the mighty men within me.
He has summoned an army against me
to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah
like grapes in a winepress.
The Lord has rejected
all the mighty men within me.
He has summoned an army against me
to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah
like grapes in a winepress.
Ayin
16
I weep because of these things;
my eyes flow with tears.
For there is no one nearby to comfort me,
no one to keep me alive.
My children are desolate
because the enemy has prevailed.
I weep because of these things;
my eyes flow with tears.
For there is no one nearby to comfort me,
no one to keep me alive.
My children are desolate
because the enemy has prevailed.
Pe
17
Zion stretches out her hands;
there is no one to comfort her.
The
Lord
has issued a decree against Jacob
that his neighbors should be his adversaries.
Jerusalem has become
something impure among them.
Zion stretches out her hands;
there is no one to comfort her.
The
Lord
has issued a decree against Jacob
that his neighbors should be his adversaries.
Jerusalem has become
something impure among them.
Tsade
18
The
Lord
is just,
for I have rebelled against His command.
Listen, all you people;
look at my pain.
My young men and women
have gone into captivity.
The
Lord
is just,
for I have rebelled against His command.
Listen, all you people;
look at my pain.
My young men and women
have gone into captivity.
Qof
19
I called to my lovers,
but they betrayed me.
My priests and elders
perished in the city
while searching for food
to keep themselves alive.
I called to my lovers,
but they betrayed me.
My priests and elders
perished in the city
while searching for food
to keep themselves alive.
Resh
20
Lord
, see how I am in distress.
I am churning within;
my heart is broken,
for I have been very rebellious.
Outside, the sword takes the children;
inside, there is death.
Lord
, see how I am in distress.
I am churning within;
my heart is broken,
for I have been very rebellious.
Outside, the sword takes the children;
inside, there is death.
Shin
21
People have heard me groaning,
but there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my misfortune;
they are glad that You have caused it.
Bring on the day You have announced,
so that they may become like me.
People have heard me groaning,
but there is no one to comfort me.
All my enemies have heard of my misfortune;
they are glad that You have caused it.
Bring on the day You have announced,
so that they may become like me.
Tav
22
Let all their wickedness come before You,
and deal with them
as You have dealt with me
because of all my transgressions.
For my groans are many,
and I am sick at heart.
Let all their wickedness come before You,
and deal with them
as You have dealt with me
because of all my transgressions.
For my groans are many,
and I am sick at heart.
Lamentations
Judgment on Jerusalem
Alef
2
How the Lord has overshadowed
Daughter
•Zion
with His anger!
He has thrown down Israel's glory
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool
in the day of His anger.
How the Lord has overshadowed
Daughter
•Zion
with His anger!
He has thrown down Israel's glory
from heaven to earth.
He has abandoned His footstool
in the day of His anger.
Bet
2
Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In His wrath He has demolished
the fortified cities of Daughter Judah.
He brought them to the ground
and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.
Without compassion the Lord has swallowed up
all the dwellings of Jacob.
In His wrath He has demolished
the fortified cities of Daughter Judah.
He brought them to the ground
and defiled the kingdom and its leaders.
Gimel
3
He has cut off every
•horn
of Israel
in His burning anger
and withdrawn His right hand
in the presence of the enemy.
He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything.
He has cut off every
•horn
of Israel
in His burning anger
and withdrawn His right hand
in the presence of the enemy.
He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire
that consumes everything.
Dalet
4
He has bent His bow like an enemy;
His right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was loved,
pouring out His wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.
He has bent His bow like an enemy;
His right hand is positioned like an adversary.
He has killed everyone who was loved,
pouring out His wrath like fire
on the tent of Daughter Zion.
He
5
The Lord is like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah.
The Lord is like an enemy;
He has swallowed up Israel.
He swallowed up all its palaces
and destroyed its fortified cities.
He has multiplied mourning and lamentation
within Daughter Judah.
Vav
6
He has done violence to His temple
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting.
The
Lord
has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.
He has done violence to His temple
as if it were a garden booth,
destroying His place of meeting.
The
Lord
has abolished
appointed festivals and Sabbaths in Zion.
He has despised king and priest
in His fierce anger.
Zayin
7
The Lord has rejected His altar,
repudiated His sanctuary;
He has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the
Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
The Lord has rejected His altar,
repudiated His sanctuary;
He has handed the walls of her palaces
over to the enemy.
They have raised a shout in the house of the
Lord
as on the day of an appointed festival.
Khet
8
The
Lord
determined to destroy
the wall of Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line
and did not restrain Himself from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
together they waste away.
The
Lord
determined to destroy
the wall of Daughter Zion.
He stretched out a measuring line
and did not restrain Himself from destroying.
He made the ramparts and walls grieve;
together they waste away.
Tet
9
Zion's gates have fallen to the ground;
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction is no more,
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the
Lord
.
Zion's gates have fallen to the ground;
He has destroyed and shattered the bars on her gates.
Her king and her leaders live among the nations,
instruction is no more,
and even her prophets receive
no vision from the
Lord
.
Yod
10
The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads
and put on
•sackcloth
.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
The elders of Daughter Zion
sit on the ground in silence.
They have thrown dust on their heads
and put on
•sackcloth
.
The young women of Jerusalem
have bowed their heads to the ground.
Kaf
11
My eyes are worn out from weeping;
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief
because of the destruction of my dear people,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
My eyes are worn out from weeping;
I am churning within.
My heart is poured out in grief
because of the destruction of my dear people,
because children and infants faint
in the streets of the city.
Lamed
12
They cry out to their mothers:
Where is the grain and wine?
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives fade away
in the arms of their mothers.
They cry out to their mothers:
Where is the grain and wine?
as they faint like the wounded
in the streets of the city,
as their lives fade away
in the arms of their mothers.
Mem
13
What can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?
What can I say on your behalf?
What can I compare you to, Daughter Jerusalem?
What can I liken you to,
so that I may console you, Virgin Daughter Zion?
For your ruin is as vast as the sea.
Who can heal you?
Nun
14
Your prophets saw visions for you
that were empty and deceptive;
they did not reveal your
•guilt
and so restore your fortunes.
They saw
•oracles
for you
that were empty and misleading.
Your prophets saw visions for you
that were empty and deceptive;
they did not reveal your
•guilt
and so restore your fortunes.
They saw
•oracles
for you
that were empty and misleading.
Samek
15
All who pass by
scornfully clap their hands at you.
They mock and shake their heads
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?
All who pass by
scornfully clap their hands at you.
They mock and shake their heads
at Daughter Jerusalem:
Is this the city that was called
the perfection of beauty,
the joy of the whole earth?
Pe
16
All your enemies
open their mouths against you.
They hiss and gnash their teeth,
saying, “We have swallowed her up.
This is the day we have waited for!
We have lived to see it.”
All your enemies
open their mouths against you.
They hiss and gnash their teeth,
saying, “We have swallowed her up.
This is the day we have waited for!
We have lived to see it.”
Ayin
17
The
Lord
has done what He planned;
He has accomplished His decree,
which He ordained in days of old.
He has demolished without compassion,
letting the enemy gloat over you
and exalting the horn of your adversaries.
The
Lord
has done what He planned;
He has accomplished His decree,
which He ordained in days of old.
He has demolished without compassion,
letting the enemy gloat over you
and exalting the horn of your adversaries.
Tsade
18
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.
Wall of Daughter Zion,
let your tears run down like a river
day and night.
Give yourself no relief
and your eyes no rest.
The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord.
Wall of Daughter Zion,
let your tears run down like a river
day and night.
Give yourself no relief
and your eyes no rest.
Qof
19
Arise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord's presence.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.
Arise, cry out in the night
from the first watch of the night.
Pour out your heart like water
before the Lord's presence.
Lift up your hands to Him
for the lives of your children
who are fainting from hunger
on the corner of every street.
Resh
20
Lord
, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord's sanctuary?
Lord
, look and consider
who You have done this to.
Should women eat their own children,
the infants they have nurtured?
Should priests and prophets
be killed in the Lord's sanctuary?
Shin
21
Both young and old
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion.
Both young and old
are lying on the ground in the streets.
My young men and women
have fallen by the sword.
You have killed them in the day of Your anger,
slaughtering without compassion.
Tav
22
You summoned my attackers on every side,
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the
Lord
's anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured and reared.
You summoned my attackers on every side,
as if for an appointed festival day;
on the day of the
Lord
's anger
no one escaped or survived.
My enemy has destroyed
those I nurtured and reared.
Lamentations
Hope through God's Mercy
Alef
3
I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of God's wrath.
2
He has driven me away and forced me to walk
in darkness instead of light.
3
Yes, He repeatedly turns His hand
against me all day long.
I am the man who has seen affliction
under the rod of God's wrath.
2
He has driven me away and forced me to walk
in darkness instead of light.
3
Yes, He repeatedly turns His hand
against me all day long.
Bet
4
He has worn away my flesh and skin;
He has shattered my bones.
5
He has laid siege against me,
encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
6
He has made me dwell in darkness
like those who have been dead for ages.
He has worn away my flesh and skin;
He has shattered my bones.
5
He has laid siege against me,
encircling me with bitterness and hardship.
6
He has made me dwell in darkness
like those who have been dead for ages.
Gimel
7
He has walled me in so I cannot escape;
He has weighed me down with chains.
8
Even when I cry out and plead for help,
He rejects my prayer.
9
He has walled in my ways with cut stones;
He has made my paths crooked.
He has walled me in so I cannot escape;
He has weighed me down with chains.
8
Even when I cry out and plead for help,
He rejects my prayer.
9
He has walled in my ways with cut stones;
He has made my paths crooked.
Dalet
10
He is a bear waiting in ambush,
a lion in hiding.
11
He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces;
He left me desolate.
12
He strung His bow
and set me as the target for His arrow.
He is a bear waiting in ambush,
a lion in hiding.
11
He forced me off my way and tore me to pieces;
He left me desolate.
12
He strung His bow
and set me as the target for His arrow.
He
13
He pierced my kidneys
with His arrows.
14
I am a laughingstock to all my people,
mocked by their songs all day long.
15
He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with
•wormwood
.
He pierced my kidneys
with His arrows.
14
I am a laughingstock to all my people,
mocked by their songs all day long.
15
He filled me with bitterness,
satiated me with
•wormwood
.
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