1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, How is she become tributary!

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Ezra 4:20, 1 Kings 4:21, Isaiah 3:26, Ezra 4:20, 1 Kings 4:21

2She weepeth bitterly in the night; tears are upon her cheeks; Among all her lovers she hath no comforter; All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.

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Psalms 6:6, Psalms 6:6, Micah 7:5, Micah 7:5, Lamentations 1:16

3Judah goeth into exile, because of affliction and because of great servitude; She dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest; All her pursuers overtake her in the straits.

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Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 28:67, Lamentations 2:9, Deuteronomy 28:64, Deuteronomy 28:67

4The ways to Zion mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts; All her gates are desolate, her priests sigh, Her virgins wail, and she is in bitterness.

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Joel 1:8, Joel 1:13, Jeremiah 9:11, Joel 1:8, Joel 1:13

5Her 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 enemy.

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Ezekiel 8:17, Ezekiel 8:18, Deuteronomy 32:15, Deuteronomy 32:27, Ezekiel 9:9

6From the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed; Her princes are become like harts, that find no pasture; Without strength, they flee before the pursuer.

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Ezekiel 24:25, Ezekiel 24:25, Jeremiah 14:5, Jeremiah 14:6, Jeremiah 52:7

7Jerusalem remembereth, in the days of her affliction and of her oppression, All her pleasant things, which she had in the days of old, When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and she had no helper; Her adversaries saw her, and mocked at her destruction.

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Psalms 79:4, Psalms 79:4, Deuteronomy 4:34, Deuteronomy 4:37, Psalms 77:5

8Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore is she become vile; All that honored her despise her, because they have seen her shame; She sigheth, and turneth backward.

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Lamentations 1:20, Lamentations 1:22, Isaiah 59:2, Isaiah 59:13, Lamentations 1:20

9Her filthiness is upon her skirts; She thought not of her end, therefore is she brought down wonderfully; she hath no comforter. "Behold, O Jehovah, my affliction, for the enemy doth triumph!"

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Deuteronomy 32:29, Deuteronomy 32:29, Isaiah 47:7, Isaiah 47:7, Psalms 25:18

10The adversary spreadeth his hands over all her pleasant things; Yea, she seeth the nations enter into her sanctuary, Concerning whom thou didst command that they should not enter into her congregation.

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Deuteronomy 23:3, Deuteronomy 23:3, Jeremiah 51:51, Jeremiah 51:51, Psalms 74:4

11All her people sigh; they seek bread; They give their precious things for bread to sustain life. "Behold, O Jehovah, and consider, how I am become vile!"

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Jeremiah 52:6, Jeremiah 52:6, Jeremiah 38:9, Jeremiah 38:9, Lamentations 2:12

12"Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see, if there be any sorrow like to my sorrow, which is brought upon me, With which Jehovah hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger!

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Luke 23:28, Luke 23:31, Daniel 9:12, Luke 23:28, Luke 23:31

13"From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevailed against them: He hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back; He hath made me desolate, faint all the day long.

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Job 30:30, Habakkuk 3:16, Job 30:30, Habakkuk 3:16, Job 19:6

14"The yoke of my transgressions is fastened in his hand; they are twisted together; They are laid upon my neck; he hath made my strength to fall; The Lord hath delivered me into their hands, against whom I cannot stand.

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Isaiah 47:6, Deuteronomy 28:48, Isaiah 47:6, Deuteronomy 28:48, Jeremiah 28:14

15"The Lord hath trodden under foot 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 down the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a wine-vat.

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Isaiah 63:3, Isaiah 28:18, Malachi 4:3, Isaiah 63:3, Isaiah 28:18

16"For these things do I weep; mine eye runneth down with water; For far from me are they that should comfort me, that should restore my strength; My children have perished, because the enemy prevailed."

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Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 2:18, Lamentations 3:48, Lamentations 3:49

17Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her; Jehovah hath given command against Jacob, that his adversaries should be round about him; Jerusalem is become an abhorrence among them.

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Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 4:31, Isaiah 1:15, Jeremiah 4:31, Lamentations 1:9

18"Righteous is Jehovah, for I have disobeyed his commandment; Hear, I pray you, all ye nations, and behold my sorrow! My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

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Psalms 119:75, 1 Samuel 12:14, 1 Samuel 12:15, Zephaniah 3:5, Psalms 119:75

19"I called upon my lovers, but they have proved false to me; My priests and my elders have expired in the city, While they sought for food to sustain their lives.

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Lamentations 2:20, Lamentations 1:2, Lamentations 1:11, Lamentations 2:20, Lamentations 1:2

20"Behold, O Jehovah, how I am distressed! my bowels boil, My heart turneth itself within me; for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad the sword bereaveth; at home, Death.

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Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:11, Deuteronomy 32:25, Isaiah 16:11, Ezekiel 7:15

21"They hear how I sigh, yet none comforteth me; mine enemies have heard of my calamity; they rejoice that thou hast done it. O bring the day which thou hast appointed, that they shall be like me!

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Lamentations 1:8, Lamentations 1:8, Psalms 35:15, Lamentations 2:15, Lamentations 1:16

22"Let all their wickedness come before thee, deal thou with them as thou hast dealt with me for all my transgressions! For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint."

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Jeremiah 8:18, Jeremiah 8:18, Nehemiah 4:4, Nehemiah 4:5, Psalms 109:14