Her adversaries have become [a]her masters,
Her enemies are [b]secure;
For the Lord has [c](A)caused her grief
Because of the multitude of her wrongdoings;
Her little ones have gone away
As captives [d]led by the enemy.
All of her (B)splendor
Is gone from the daughter of Zion;
Her leaders have become like deer
That have found no pasture,
And they have [e](C)fled without strength
[f]From the pursuer.
In the days of her affliction and homelessness
(D)Jerusalem remembers all her treasures
That were hers since the days of old,
When her people fell into the hand of the adversary
And (E)no one helped her.
The adversaries saw her,
They (F)laughed at her [g]ruin.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:5 Lit head
  2. Lamentations 1:5 Or at ease
  3. Lamentations 1:5 Or tormented her
  4. Lamentations 1:5 Lit before
  5. Lamentations 1:6 Lit gone
  6. Lamentations 1:6 Lit Before
  7. Lamentations 1:7 Lit cessation

Her foes have become her masters;
    her enemies are at ease.
The Lord has brought her grief(A)
    because of her many sins.(B)
Her children have gone into exile,(C)
    captive before the foe.(D)

All the splendor has departed
    from Daughter Zion.(E)
Her princes are like deer
    that find no pasture;
in weakness they have fled(F)
    before the pursuer.

In the days of her affliction and wandering
    Jerusalem remembers all the treasures
    that were hers in days of old.
When her people fell into enemy hands,
    there was no one to help her.(G)
Her enemies looked at her
    and laughed(H) at her destruction.

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