The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 29: Lamentations of Jeremias by Anonymous


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2:9. Teth. Her gates are sunk into the ground: he hath destroyed, and
broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the
law is no more, and her prophets have found no vision from the Lord.

2:10. Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground,
they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust,
they are girdcd with haircloth, the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their
heads to the ground.

2:11. Caph. My eyes have failed with weeping, my bowels are troubled: my
liver is poured out upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter
of my people, when the children, and the sucklings, fainted away in the
streets of the city.

2:12. Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and wine? when
they fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they
breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers.

2:13. Mem. To what shall I compare thee? or to what shall I liken thee,
O daughter of Jerusalem? to what shall I equal thee, that I may comfort
thee, O virgin daughter of Sion? for great as the sea is thy
destruction: who shall heal thee?

2:14. Nun. Thy prophets have seen false and foolish things for thee: and
they have not laid open thy iniquity, to excite thee to penance: but
they have seen for thee false revelations and banishments.

2:15. Samech. All they that passed by the way have clapped their hands
at thee: they have hissed, and wagged their heads at the daughter of
Jerusalem, saying: Is this the city of perfect beauty, the joy of all
the earth?

2:16. Phe. All thy enemies have opened their month against thee: they
have hissed, and gnashed with the teeth, and have said: We will swallow
her up: lo, this is the day which we looked for: we have found it, we
have seen it.

2:17. Ain. The Lord hath done that which he purposed, he hath fulfilled
his word, which he commanded in the days of old: he hath destroyed, and
hath not spared, and he hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, and
hath set up the horn of thy adversaries.

2:18. Sade. Their heart cried to the Lord upon the walls of the daughter
of Sion: Let tears run down like a torrent day and night: give thyself
no rest, and let not the apple of thy eye cease.

2:19. Coph. Arise, give praise in the night, in the beginning of the
watches: pour out thy heart like water, before the face of the Lord:
lift up thy hands to him for the life of thy little children, that have
fainted for hunger at the top of all the streets.

2:20. Res. Behold, O Lord, and consider whom thou hast thus dealt with:
shall women then eat their own fruit, their children of a span long?
shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

2:21. Sin. The child and the old man lie without on the ground: my
virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword: thou hast slain them
in the day of thy wrath: thou hast killed, and shewn them no pity.

2:22. Thau. Thou hast called as to a festival, those that should terrify
me round about, and there was none in the day of the wrath of the Lord
that escaped and was left: those that I brought up, and nourished, my
enemy hath consumed them.

Lamentations Chapter 3

3:1. Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his
indignation.

3:2. Aleph. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, and not into
light. 3:3. Aleph. Only against me he hath turned, and turned again his
hand all the day.

3:4. Beth. My skin and my flesh he hath made old, he hath broken my
bones.

3:5. Beth. He hath built round about me, and he hath compassed me with
gall, and labour.

3:6. Beth. He hath set me in dark places as those that are dead for
ever.

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