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1 How dothThe prophet wonders at the great judgment of God, seeing Jerusalem, which was so strong and so full of people, to be now destroyed and desolate.the city sit desolate, [that was] full of people! [how] is she become as a widow! she [that was] great among the nations,Who had chief rule over many provinces and countries.[and] princess among the provinces, [how] is she become a slave!

2 She weepeth bitterly in theSo that she takes no rest.night, and her tears [are] on her cheeks: among all herMeaning the Egyptians and Assyrians who promised help.lovers she hath none to comfort [her]: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

3 Judah is gone into captivity becauseFor her cruelty toward the poor and oppression of servants, (Jer_34:11).of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the nations, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her in the midst of distress.

4 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none comeAs they used to come up with mirth and joy, (Psa_42:4).to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she [is] in bitterness.

5 Her adversariesThat is, have rule over her, (Deu_28:41).are the head, her enemies prosper; for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her children are gone into captivity before the enemy.

6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty hath departed: her princes are becomeAs men pined away with sorrow and that have no courage.like harts [that] find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer.

7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her peopleIn her misery she considered the great benefits and commodities that she had lost.fell into the hand of the enemy, and none helped her: the adversaries saw her, [and] mocked at herAt her religion and serving of God, which was the greatest grief to the godly.sabbaths.

8 Ierusalem hath grieuously sinned, therefore shee is in derision: all that honoured her, despise her, because they haue seene her filthinesse: yea, she sigheth and turneth backeward.

9 She is not ashamed of her sin, although it is revealed.Her filthiness [is] in her skirts; she remembereth not her latter end; therefore she hath been wonderfully abased: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified [himself].

10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen [that] the nations entered into her sanctuary, whomGod forbids the Ammonites and Moabites to enter into the congregation of the Lord, and under them he comprehends all enemies, (Deu_23:3).thou didst command [that] they should not enter into thy congregation.

11 All her people sigh and seeke their bread: they haue giuen their pleasant thinges for meate to refresh the soule: see, O Lorde, and consider: for I am become vile.

12 [Is it] nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there is anyThus Jerusalem laments moving others to pity her and to learn by her example.sorrow like my sorrow, which hath fallen upon me, with which the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

13 From above hathThis declares that we should acknowledge God to be the author of all our afflictions to the intent that we might seek him for remedy.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.

14 TheMy heavy sins are continually before his eyes as he that ties a thing to his hand for a reminder.yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are knit together, [and] come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall, the Lord hath delivered me into [their] hands, [from whom] I am not able to rise.

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 the virgin, the daughter of Judah, [as] in aHe has trodden them underfoot as they tread grapes in the winepress.winepress.

16 For these things I weepe: mine eye, euen mine eye casteth out water, because the comforter that should refresh my soule, is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemie preuailed.

17 Zion spreadeth forth her hands, [and there is] none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, [that] his adversaries [should be] around him: Jerusalem isWho because of her pollution was separate from her husband, (Lev_15:19) and was abhorred for the time.as a menstruous woman among them.

18 The Lorde is righteous: for I haue rebelled against his commandement: heare, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorowe: my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie.

19 I called for my lovers, [but] they deceived me: my priests and my elders gave up the ghost in the city, while theyThat is, they died for hunger.sought their food to relieve their souls.

20 Behold, O Lorde, howe I am troubled: my bowels swell: mine heart is turned within me, for I am ful of heauinesse: the sword spoyleth abroad, as death doeth at home.

21 They haue heard that I mourne, but there is none to comfort mee: all mine enemies haue heard of my trouble, and are glad, that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day, that thou hast pronounced, and they shalbe like vnto me.

22 Of desiring vengeance against the enemy, {{See Jer_11:20}} and {{See Jer_18:21}}Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do to them, as thou hast done to me for all my transgressions: for my sighs [are] many, and my heart [is] faint.

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