The roads to Zion mourn,
    for none come to (A)the festival;
(B)all her gates are desolate;
    her priests (C)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[a]
    and she herself suffers bitterly.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away

(A)Jerusalem sinned grievously;
    therefore she became filthy;
all who honored her despise her,
    (B)for they have seen her nakedness;
she herself (C)groans
    and turns her face away.

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11 All her people (A)groan
    as (B)they search for bread;
they trade their (C)treasures for (D)food
    to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
    for I am despised.”

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