Lamentations 1:1–5
1 How lonely sits the city
That was full of people!
aHow like a widow is she,
Who was great among the nations!
The bprincess among the provinces
Has become a 1slave!
2 She cweeps bitterly in the dnight,
Her tears are on her cheeks;
Among all her lovers
She has none to comfort her.
All her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
They have become her enemies.
3 eJudah has gone into captivity,
Under affliction and hard servitude;
fShe dwells among the 2nations,
She finds no grest;
All her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.
Because no one comes to the 3set feasts.
All her gates are hdesolate;
Her priests sigh,
Her virgins are afflicted,
And she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries ihave become 4the master,
Her enemies prosper;
For the Lord has afflicted her
jBecause of the multitude of her transgressions.
Her kchildren have gone into captivity before the enemy.