GetPassageurn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:25urn:cts:pbc:bible.parallel.eng.darby:25How doth the city sit solitary [ that ] was full of people ! She that was great among the nations is become as a widow ; the princess among the provinces is become tributary ! She weepeth sore in the night , and her tears are on her cheeks ; among all her lovers she hath no comforter ; all her friends have dealt treacherously with her , they are become her enemies . Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction , and because of great servitude ; she dwelleth among the nations , she findeth no rest : all her pursuers have overtaken her within the straits . The ways of Zion do mourn , because none come to the solemn assembly : all her gates are desolate ; her priests sigh , her virgins are in grief ; and as for her , she is in bitterness . Her adversaries have become the head , her enemies prosper ; for Jehovah hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions : her children are gone into captivity before the adversary . And from the daughter of Zion all her splendour is departed : her princes are become like harts that find no pasture ; and they are gone without strength before the pursuer . In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings , since her people fell into the hand of an adversary , and none did help her , Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old : the adversaries have seen her , they mock at her ruin . Jerusalem hath grievously sinned ; therefore is she removed as an impurity : all that honoured her despise her because they have seen her nakedness ; and she sigheth , and turneth backward . Her impurity was in her skirts , she remembered not her latter end ; and she came down wonderfully : she hath no comforter . Jehovah , behold my affliction ; for the enemy hath magnified himself . The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her precious things ; for she hath seen the nations enter into her sanctuary , concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation . All her people sigh , they seek bread ; they have given their precious things for food to revive [ their ] soul . See , Jehovah , and consider , for I am become vile . Is it nothing to you , all ye that pass by ? Behold , and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow , which is done unto me , whom Jehovah hath afflicted in the day of his fierce anger . From on high hath he sent fire into my bones , and it prevaileth against them ; he hath spread a net for my feet ; he hath turned me back ; he hath made me desolate [ and ] faint all the day . The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand : they are wreathed , they are come up upon my neck ; he hath made my strength to fail ; the Lord hath delivered me into hands out of which I am not able to rise up . The Lord hath cast down all my mighty men in the midst of me ; he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men ; the Lord hath trodden as a winepress the virgin daughter of Judah . For these things I weep ; mine eye , mine eye runneth down with water : for the comforter that should revive my soul is far from me ; my children are desolate , for the enemy hath prevailed . Zion spreadeth forth her hands ; there is none to comfort her ; Jehovah hath commanded concerning Jacob , [ that ] his adversaries [ should be ] round about him ; Jerusalem is as an impurity among them . Jehovah is righteous ; for I have rebelled against his commandment . Hear , I pray you , all ye peoples , and behold my sorrow . My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity . I called for my lovers , they have deceived me ; my priests and mine elders have expired in the city , while they sought them food to revive their soul . See , Jehovah , for I am in distress , my bowels are troubled ; my heart is turned within me , for I have grievously rebelled : without , the sword hath bereaved [ me ] , within , it is as death . They have heard that I sigh : I have no comforter : all mine enemies have heard of my calamity ; they are glad that thou hast done it . Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called , and they shall be like unto me . Let all their wickedness come before thee ; and do unto them , as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions : for my sighs are many , and my heart is faint . How hath the Lord in his anger covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud ! He hath cast down from the heavens unto the earth the beauty of Israel , and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger . The Lord hath swallowed up all the dwellings of Jacob , and hath not spared ; he hath thrown down in his wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah : he hath brought [ them ] down to the ground ; he hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof . He hath cut off in fierce anger all the horn of Israel : he hath withdrawn his right hand from before the enemy ; and he burned up Jacob like a flaming fire , devouring round about . He hath bent his bow like an enemy ; he stood with his right hand as an adversary , and hath slain all that was pleasant to the eye : in the tent of the daughter of Zion , he hath poured out his fury like fire . The Lord is become as an enemy : he hath swallowed up Israel ; he hath swallowed up all her palaces ; he hath destroyed his strongholds , and hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation . And he hath violently cast down his enclosure as a garden ; he hath destroyed his place of assembly : Jehovah hath caused set feast and sabbath to be forgotten in Zion , and hath despised in the indignation of his anger king and priest . The Lord hath cast off his altar , he hath rejected his sanctuary ; he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces : they have made a noise in the house of Jehovah , as on the day of a set feast . Jehovah hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion : he hath stretched out the line , he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying ; and he hath made the rampart and the wall to lament : they languish together . Her gates are sunk into the ground ; he hath destroyed and broken her bars . Her king and her princes are among the nations : the law is no [ more ] ; her prophets also find no vision from Jehovah . The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground , they keep silence ; they have cast dust upon their heads , they have girded themselves with sackcloth : the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their head to the ground . Mine eyes are consumed with tears , my bowels are troubled ; my liver is poured upon the earth , because of the ruin of the daughter of my people ; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city . They say to their mothers , Where is corn and wine ? when they swoon as the wounded in the streets of the city ; when they pour out their soul into their mothers' bosom . What shall I take to witness for thee ? what shall I liken unto thee , daughter of Jerusalem ? What shall I equal to thee , that I may comfort thee , virgin daughter of Zion ? For thy ruin is great as the sea : who will heal thee ? Thy prophets have seen vanity and folly for thee ; and they have not revealed thine iniquity , to turn away thy captivity ; but have seen for thee burdens of falsehood and causes of expulsion . All that pass by clap [ their ] hands at thee ; they hiss and shake their head at the daughter of Jerusalem : Is this the city which they called , The perfection of beauty , The joy of the whole earth ? All thine enemies open their mouth against thee , they hiss and gnash the teeth : they say , We have swallowed [ her ] up ; this is forsooth the day that we looked for : we have found , we have seen [ it ] . Jehovah hath done what he had devised ; he hath fulfilled his word which he had commanded from the days of old : he hath thrown down , and hath not spared , and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee ; he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries . Their heart cried unto the Lord . O wall of the daughter of Zion , let tears run down like a torrent day and night : give thyself no respite ; let not the apple of thine eye rest . Arise , cry out in the night , in the beginning of the watches ; pour out thy heart like water before the face of the Lord : lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children , who faint from hunger at the top of all the streets . See , Jehovah , and consider to whom thou hast done this ! Shall the women eat their fruit , the infants that they nursed ? Shall priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord ? The child and the old man lie on the ground in the streets ; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword : thou hast slain [ them ] in the day of thine anger ; thou hast killed , thou hast not spared . Thou hast called up , as on the day of a set feast , my terrors on every side ; and in the day of Jehovah's anger there was none that escaped or remained : those that I have nursed and brought up hath mine enemy consumed . I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath . Me hath he led , and brought into darkness , and not into light . Surely against me hath he turned again and again his hand all the day . My flesh and my skin hath he wasted away , he hath broken my bones . He hath built against me , and encompassed [ me ] with gall and toil . He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead . He hath hedged me about that I cannot get out : he hath made my chain heavy . Even when I cry and shout , he shutteth out my prayer . He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone , he hath made my paths crooked . He is unto me [ as ] a bear lying in wait , a lion in secret places . He hath turned aside my ways , and pulled me in pieces ; he hath made me desolate . He hath bent his bow , and set me as a mark for the arrow . He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins . I am become a derision to all my people ; their song all the day . He hath sated me with bitterness , he hath made me drunk with wormwood . He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones , he hath covered me with ashes . And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace : I have forgotten prosperity . And I said , My strength is perished , and my hope in Jehovah . Remember thou mine affliction and my wandering , the wormwood and the gall . My soul hath [ them ] constantly in remembrance , and is humbled in me . -- This I recall to heart , therefore have I hope . It is of Jehovah's loving-kindness we are not consumed , because his compassions fail not ; they are new every morning : great is thy faithfulness . Jehovah is my portion , saith my soul ; therefore will I hope in him . Jehovah is good unto them that wait for him , to the soul [ that ] seeketh him . It is good that one should both wait , and that in silence , for the salvation of Jehovah . It is good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth : He sitteth solitary and keepeth silence , because he hath laid it upon him ; he putteth his mouth in the dust , if so be there may be hope ; he giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him ; he is filled full with reproach . For the Lord will not cast off for ever ; but if he have caused grief , he will have compassion according to the multitude of his loving-kindnesses : for he doth not willingly afflict or grieve the children of men . To crush under foot all the prisoners of the earth , to turn aside the right of a man before the face of the Most High , to wrong a man in his cause , -- will not the Lord see it ? Who is he that saith , and there cometh to pass , what the Lord hath not commanded ? Out of the mouth of the Most High doth not there proceed evil and good ? Wherefore doth a living man complain , a man for the punishment of his sins ? Let us search and try our ways , and turn again to Jehovah . Let us lift up our heart with [ our ] hands unto God in the heavens . We have transgressed and have rebelled : thou hast not pardoned . Thou hast covered thyself with anger , and pursued us ; thou hast slain , thou hast not spared . Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud , that prayer should not pass through . Thou hast made us the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the peoples . All our enemies have opened their mouth against us . Fear and the pit are come upon us , devastation and ruin . Mine eye runneth down with streams of water for the ruin of the daughter of my people . Mine eye poureth down , and ceaseth not , without any intermission , till Jehovah look down and behold from the heavens . Mine eye affecteth my soul , because of all the daughters of my city . They that are mine enemies without cause have chased me sore like a bird . They have cut off my life in a pit , and cast a stone upon me . Waters streamed over my head ; I said , I am cut off . I called upon thy name , Jehovah , out of the lowest pit . Thou hast heard my voice : hide not thine ear at my sighing , at my cry . Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee ; thou saidst , Fear not . Lord , thou hast pleaded the cause of my soul , thou hast redeemed my life . Jehovah , thou hast seen my wrong : judge thou my cause . Thou hast seen all their vengeance , all their imaginations against me . Thou hast heard their reproach , O Jehovah , all their imaginations against me ; the lips of those that rise up against me and their meditation against me all the day . Behold thou their sitting down and their rising up : I am their song . Render unto them a recompence , O Jehovah , according to the work of their hands ; give them obduracy of heart , thy curse unto them ; pursue them in anger , and destroy them from under the heavens of Jehovah . How is the gold become dim ! the most pure gold changed ! the stones of the sanctuary poured out at the top of all the streets ! The sons of Zion , so precious , comparable to fine gold , how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers , the work of the hands of the potter ! Even the jackals offer the breast , they give suck to their young ; the daughter of my people is become cruel , like the ostriches in the wilderness . The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst ; the young children ask bread , no man breaketh it unto them . They that fed delicately are desolate in the streets ; they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dung-hills . And the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the reward of the sin of Sodom , which was overthrown as in a moment , and no hands were violently laid upon her . Her Nazarites were purer than snow , whiter than milk ; they were more ruddy in body than rubies , their figure was as sapphire . Their visage is darker than blackness , they are not known in the streets ; their skin cleaveth to their bones , it is withered , it is become like a stick . The slain with the sword are happier than the slain with hunger ; for these pine away , stricken through for want of the fruits of the field . The hands of pitiful women have boiled their own children : they were their meat in the ruin of the daughter of my people . Jehovah hath accomplished his fury ; he hath poured out his fierce anger , and hath kindled a fire in Zion , which hath consumed the foundations thereof . The kings of the earth , and all the inhabitants of the world , would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should enter into the gates of Jerusalem . [ It is ] for the sins of her prophets , [ and ] the iniquities of her priests , who have shed the blood of the righteous in the midst of her . They wandered about blind in the streets ; they were polluted with blood , so that men could not touch their garments . They cried unto them , Depart ! Unclean ! Depart ! depart , touch not ! When they fled away , and wandered about , it was said among the nations , They shall no more sojourn [ there ] . The face of Jehovah hath divided them ; he will no more regard them . They respected not the persons of the priests , they favoured not the aged . Our eyes still failed for our vain help ; in our watching , we have watched for a nation that did not save . They hunted our steps , that we could not go in our streets : our end is near , our days are fulfilled ; for our end is come . Our pursuers were swifter than the eagles of the heavens ; they chased us hotly upon the mountains , they laid wait for us in the wilderness . The breath of our nostrils , the anointed of Jehovah , was taken in their pits ; of whom we said , Under his shadow we shall live among the nations . Rejoice and be glad , daughter of Edom , that dwellest in the land of Uz : the cup shall pass also unto thee ; thou shalt be drunken , and make thyself naked . The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished , O daughter of Zion ; he will no more carry thee away into captivity . He will visit thine iniquity , O daughter of Edom ; he will discover thy sins . Remember , O Jehovah , what is come upon us ; consider , and see our reproach . Our inheritance is turned to strangers , our houses to aliens . We are orphans and fatherless , our mothers are as widows . Our water have we to drink for money , our wood cometh unto us for a price . Our pursuers are on our necks : we are weary , we have no rest . We have given the hand to Egypt , [ and ] to Asshur , to be satisfied with bread . Our fathers have sinned , [ and ] they are not ; and we bear their iniquities . Bondmen rule over us : there is no deliverer out of their hand . We have to get our bread at the risk of our lives , because of the sword of the wilderness . Our skin gloweth like an oven , because of the burning heat of the famine . They have ravished the women in Zion , the maids in the cities of Judah . Princes were hanged up by their hand ; the faces of elders were not honoured . The young men have borne the mill , and the youths have stumbled under the wood . The elders have ceased from the gate , the young men from their music . The joy of our heart hath ceased ; our dance is turned into mourning . The crown is fallen from our head : woe unto us , for we have sinned ! For this our heart is faint ; for these things our eyes have grown dim , Because of the mountain of Zion , which is desolate : foxes walk over it . Thou , Jehovah , dwellest for ever ; thy throne is from generation to generation . Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever , dost thou forsake us so long time ? Turn thou us unto thee , Jehovah , and we shall be turned ; renew our days as of old . Or is it that thou hast utterly rejected us ? Wouldest thou be exceeding wroth against us ?