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Her foes have become her masters,
    and her enemies prosper,
for the Lord has made her suffer
    for her endless transgressions.
Her children are no longer there,
    having been taken captive by their oppressor.
Every vestige of splendor
    has departed from the daughter of Zion.[a]
Her princes have become like stags
    that can find no pasture;
with their strength exhausted
    they flee before their pursuers.
In the days of her misery and distress
    Jerusalem will remember those times
when her people were overcome by the enemy,
    and she had no one to help her.
Her foes mocked her unceasingly
    and laughed over her downfall.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:6 Daughter of Zion: the city of Jerusalem and its people.

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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