God in Lamentations

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1. 1:5

   Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.

2. 1:9

   Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!

3. 1:11

   All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.

4. 1:12

   Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

5. 1:14

   My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.

6. 1:15

   The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.

7. 1:17

   Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

8. 1:18

   The LORD is righteous, yet I rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.

9. 1:20

   See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.

10. 2:1

    How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.

11. 2:2

    Without pity the Lord has swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob. In His wrath He has demolished the fortified cities of the Daughter of Judah. He brought to the ground and defiled her kingdom and its princes.

12. 2:5

    The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.

13. 2:6

    He has laid waste His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His place of meeting. The LORD has made Zion forget her appointed feasts and Sabbaths. In His fierce anger He has despised both king and priest.

14. 2:7

    The Lord has rejected His altar; He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has delivered the walls of her palaces into the hand of the enemy. They have raised a shout in the house of the LORD as on the day of an appointed feast.

15. 2:8

    The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.

16. 2:9

    Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

17. 2:17

    The LORD has done what He planned; He has accomplished His decree, which He ordained in days of old; He has overthrown you without pity. He has let the enemy gloat over you and exalted the horn of your foes.

18. 2:18

    The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.

19. 2:19

    Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.

20. 2:20

    Look, O LORD, and consider: Whom have You ever treated like this? Should women eat their offspring, the infants they have nurtured? Should priests and prophets be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

21. 2:22

    You summoned my terrors on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD’s anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.

22. 3:18

    So I say, “My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD.”

23. 3:22

    Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.

24. 3:24

    “The LORD is my portion,” says my soul, “therefore I will hope in Him.”

25. 3:25

    The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

26. 3:26

    It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.

27. 3:31

    For the Lord will not cast us off forever.

28. 3:36

    to subvert a man in his lawsuit—of these the Lord does not approve.

29. 3:37

    Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?

30. 3:40

    Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.

31. 3:41

    Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:

32. 3:50

    until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.

33. 3:55

    I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.

34. 3:58

    You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.

35. 3:59

    You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!

36. 3:61

    O LORD, You have heard their insults, all their plots against me—

37. 3:64

    You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.

38. 3:66

    You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.

39. 4:11

    The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.

40. 4:16

    The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.

41. 4:20

    The LORD’s anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, “Under his shadow we will live among the nations.”

42. 5:1

    Remember, O LORD, what has happened to us. Look and see our disgrace!

43. 5:19

    You, O LORD, reign forever; Your throne endures from generation to generation.

44. 5:21

    Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,