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The Sorrowful City[a]

How lonely she lies,
    the city that thronged with people!
Like a widow she has become,
    this great one among nations!
The princess among provinces
    has become a vassal.

Bitterly she cries in the night,
    as tears stream down[b] her cheeks.
No one consoles her
    of all her friends.
All her neighbors have betrayed her;
    they have become her enemies.

Judah has gone into exile
    to escape affliction and servitude.
She that sat among the nations,
    has found no rest.
All her pursuers overtook her
    amid narrow passes.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:1 This book is an acrostic—successive verses begin with a consecutive letter of the Heb. alphabet except in chapter 3, where every three verses begin with the same consecutive Heb. letter.
  2. Lamentations 1:2 The Heb. lacks stream down