1ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury.

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Psalms 132:7, Psalms 132:7, 1 Chronicles 28:2, 1 Chronicles 28:2, Joel 2:2

2BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has not been lenient, with all the beauties of Jacob. In his fury, he has destroyed the fortifications of the virgin of Judah, and he has thrown them down to the ground. He has polluted the kingdom and its leaders.

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Lamentations 3:43, Psalms 89:39, Psalms 89:40, Lamentations 2:17, Lamentations 3:43

3GHIMEL. In the anger of his fury, he has broken the entire horn of Israel. He has drawn back his right hand before the face of the enemy. And he has kindled within Jacob a flaming fire, devouring all around.

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Psalms 74:11, Psalms 74:11, Psalms 75:10, Isaiah 42:25, Psalms 75:5

4DALETH. He has bent his bow like an enemy. He has fixed his right hand like an adversary. And he has cut down all that was beautiful to behold in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion. He has poured out his indignation like fire.

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Jeremiah 7:20, Jeremiah 7:20, Isaiah 42:25, Jeremiah 21:5, Lamentations 3:12

5HE. The Lord has become like an enemy. He has thrown down Israel. He has thrown down all of his defenses. He has torn apart his fortifications. And he has filled the daughter of Judah with humbled men and humbled women.

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Lamentations 2:2, Lamentations 2:2, Jeremiah 30:14, Jeremiah 30:14, Lamentations 2:4

6VAU. And he has torn apart her tent like a garden. He has demolished her tabernacle. In Zion, the Lord has delivered feast and Sabbath into oblivion, and king and priest into disgrace, and into the indignation of his fury.

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Zephaniah 3:18, Lamentations 1:4, Zephaniah 3:18, Lamentations 1:4, Lamentations 4:16

7ZAIN. The Lord has pushed away his own altar. He has cursed his own sanctuary. He has delivered the walls of its towers into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord, as if on the day of a solemnity.

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Psalms 74:3, Psalms 74:8, Ezekiel 24:21, Psalms 74:3, Psalms 74:8

8HETH. The Lord has decided to tear down the wall of the daughter of Zion. He has stretched out his measuring line, and he has not turned away his hand from perdition. And the rampart has mourned, and with the wall it has been torn apart.

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2 Kings 21:13, 2 Kings 21:13, Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 34:11, Jeremiah 14:2

9TETH. Her gates have been buried in the ground. He has ruined and crushed its bars. Her king and her princes are with the Gentiles. There is no law, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.

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Ezekiel 7:26, Ezekiel 7:26, Hosea 3:4, Hosea 3:4, Nehemiah 1:3

10JOD. The elders of the daughter of Zion have become idle; they sit on the ground. They have sprinkled their heads with ashes. They have been wrapped with haircloth. The virgins of Jerusalem have cast their heads down to the ground.

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Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 3:26, Isaiah 15:3, Job 2:12, Job 2:13

11CAPH. My eyes have exhausted their tears. My internal organs have become disturbed. My liver has been poured out on the earth, over the grief of the daughter of my people, when the little ones and the infants passed away in the streets of the town.

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Lamentations 1:20, Lamentations 1:20, Lamentations 1:16, Job 16:13, Lamentations 1:16

12LAMED. They said to their mothers, “Where is the wheat and the wine?” when they fell like the wounded in the streets of the city, when they breathed out their lives into the bosoms of their mothers.

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Ezekiel 30:24, Isaiah 53:12, Ezekiel 30:24, Isaiah 53:12

13MEM. To what shall I compare you, or to what shall I liken you, O daughter of Jerusalem? To what shall I equate you, so as to console you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your destruction is as great as the sea. Who will cure you?

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Lamentations 1:12, Lamentations 1:12, 2 Samuel 5:20, Jeremiah 14:17, Jeremiah 8:22

14NUN. Your prophets have seen false and foolish things for you. And they have not laid open your iniquity, so as to provoke you to repentance. Yet they have seen for you false revelations and banishments.

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Jeremiah 5:31, Ezekiel 22:28, Isaiah 58:1, Jeremiah 5:31, Ezekiel 22:28

15SAMECH. All those who passed by the way have clapped their hands over you. They have hissed and shook their heads over the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city of perfect dignity, the joy of all the earth?”

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Jeremiah 18:16, Psalms 48:2, Jeremiah 18:16, Psalms 48:2, Jeremiah 19:8

16PHE. All your enemies have opened their mouth over you. They have hissed and gnashed their teeth, and they said: “We will devour her. Yes, this is the day we waited for. We have found it, we have seen it.”

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Psalms 35:21, Psalms 35:21, Lamentations 3:46, Lamentations 3:46, Psalms 56:2

17AIN. The Lord has done what he decided to do. He has fulfilled his word, which he instructed since the days of antiquity. He has destroyed, and he has not been lenient, and he has caused the enemy to rejoice over you, and he has exalted the horn of your adversaries.

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Psalms 89:42, Ezekiel 5:11, Psalms 89:42, Ezekiel 5:11, Lamentations 2:1

18SADE. Their heart cried out to the Lord from the walls of the daughter of Zion. Let tears run down like a torrent throughout the day and the night. Do not give rest to yourself, and do not allow the pupil of your eye to cease.

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Psalms 119:145, Psalms 119:145, Lamentations 3:48, Lamentations 3:49, Lamentations 2:8

19COPH. Rise up. Give praise in the night, in the first of the watches. Pour out your heart like water before the sight of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him on behalf of the souls of your little ones, who have passed away from famine at the head of all the crossroads.

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Psalms 62:8, Psalms 62:8, Isaiah 26:9, Psalms 119:147, Psalms 119:148

20RES. O Lord, see and consider those whom you have made into such a vintage. So then, shall women eat their own fruit, little ones measured by the palm of the hand? Shall priest and prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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Jeremiah 19:9, Lamentations 4:10, Jeremiah 19:9, Lamentations 4:10, Psalms 78:64

21SIN. The boy and the old man lie down on the ground outside. My virgins and my youths have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of your fury. You have struck down, and you have not shown pity.

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2 Chronicles 36:17, 2 Chronicles 36:17, Zechariah 11:6, Lamentations 3:43, Jeremiah 13:14

22THAU. You have called, as if to a day of solemnity, those who would terrify me all around. And there was no one, in the day of the fury of the Lord, who escaped or was left behind. Those whom I educated and nourished, my enemy has consumed.

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Jeremiah 6:25, Jeremiah 6:25, Psalms 31:13, Psalms 31:13, Isaiah 24:17