English Bible Presentation Sharing - Lamentations Book, chapter 1, verse 6 in Hcsb Version

Lamentations 1 : 1 (HCSB)

How she sits alone, the city *once crowded with people! She who was great among the nations has become like a widow. The princess among the provinces has become a slave.

Lamentations 1 : 2 (HCSB)

She weeps aloud during the night, with tears on her cheeks. There is no one to offer her comfort, *not one from all her lovers. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.

Lamentations 1 : 3 (HCSB)

Judah has gone into exile following affliction and harsh slavery; she lives among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in narrow places.

Lamentations 1 : 4 (HCSB)

The roads to Zion mourn, for no one comes to the appointed festivals. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her young women grieve, and she herself is bitter.

Lamentations 1 : 5 (HCSB)

Her adversaries have become *her masters; her enemies are at ease, for the LORD has made her suffer because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the adversary.

Lamentations 1 : 6 (HCSB)

All her splendor has vanished from Daughter Zion. Her leaders are like stags that find no pasture; they walk away exhausted before the hunter.

Lamentations 1 : 7 (HCSB)

During the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious belongings that were *hers in days of old. When her people fell into the adversary's hand, she had no one to help. The adversaries looked at her, laughing over her downfall.

Lamentations 1 : 8 (HCSB)

Jerusalem has sinned grievously; therefore, she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her *now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness. She herself groans and turns away.

Lamentations 1 : 9 (HCSB)

Her uncleanness *stains her skirts. She never considered her end. Her downfall was astonishing; there was no one to comfort her. LORD, look on my affliction, for the enemy triumphs!

Lamentations 1 : 10 (HCSB)

The adversary has seized all her precious belongings. She has even seen the nations enter her sanctuary-- those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.

Lamentations 1 : 11 (HCSB)

All her people groan while they search for bread. They have traded their precious belongings for food in order to stay alive. LORD, look and see how I have become despised.

Lamentations 1 : 12 (HCSB)

Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look and see! Is there any pain like mine, which was dealt out to me, which the LORD made *me suffer on the day of His burning anger?

Lamentations 1 : 13 (HCSB)

He sent fire from on high into my bones; He made it descend. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, sick all day long.

Lamentations 1 : 14 (HCSB)

My transgressions have been formed into a yoke, fastened together by His hand; they have been placed on my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has handed me over to those I cannot withstand.

Lamentations 1 : 15 (HCSB)

The Lord has rejected all the mighty men within me. He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. The Lord has trampled Virgin Daughter Judah *like grapes in a winepress.

Lamentations 1 : 16 (HCSB)

I weep because of these things; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort *me , no one to keep me alive. My children are desolate because the enemy has prevailed.

Lamentations 1 : 17 (HCSB)

Zion stretches out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has issued a decree against Jacob that his neighbors should be his adversaries. Jerusalem has become something impure among them.

Lamentations 1 : 18 (HCSB)

The LORD is in the right, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look at my pain. My young men and women have gone into captivity.

Lamentations 1 : 19 (HCSB)

I called to my lovers, but they betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while searching for food to keep themselves alive.

Lamentations 1 : 20 (HCSB)

LORD, see how I am in distress. I am churning within; my heart is broken, for I have been very rebellious. Outside, the sword takes the children; inside, there is death.

Lamentations 1 : 21 (HCSB)

People have heard me groaning, but there is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my misfortune; they are glad that You have caused *it . Bring on the day You have announced, so that they may become like me.

Lamentations 1 : 22 (HCSB)

Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and I am sick at heart.