bible-app/Translations/NKJV/NKJV_books/Lamentations.json

{
  "Info": {
    "Language": "English",
    "Meaningless": "1.2.0",
    "Timestamp": "2025-04-21T21:56:50.065183-04:00",
    "Translation": "NKJV"
  },
  "Lamentations": {
    "1": {
      "1": "How lonely sits the city\nThat was full of people!\nHow like a widow is she,\nWho was great among the nations!\nThe princess among the provinces\nHas become a slave!",
      "2": "She weeps bitterly in the night,\nHer tears are on her cheeks;\nAmong all her lovers\nShe has none to comfort her.\nAll her friends have dealt treacherously with her;\nThey have become her enemies.",
      "3": "Judah has gone into captivity,\nUnder affliction and hard servitude;\nShe dwells among the nations,\nShe finds no rest;\nAll her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.",
      "4": "The roads to Zion mourn\nBecause no one comes to the set feasts.\nAll her gates are desolate;\nHer priests sigh,\nHer virgins are afflicted,\nAnd she is in bitterness.",
      "5": "Her adversaries have become the master,\nHer enemies prosper;\nFor the Lord has afflicted her\nBecause of the multitude of her transgressions.\nHer children have gone into captivity before the enemy.",
      "6": "And from the daughter of Zion\nAll her splendor has departed.\nHer princes have become like deer\nThat find no pasture,\nThat flee without strength\nBefore the pursuer.",
      "7": "In the days of her affliction and roaming,\nJerusalem remembers all her pleasant things\nThat she had in the days of old.\nWhen her people fell into the hand of the enemy,\nWith no one to help her,\nThe adversaries saw her\nAnd mocked at her downfall.",
      "8": "Jerusalem has sinned gravely,\nTherefore she has become vile.\nAll who honored her despise her\nBecause they have seen her nakedness;\nYes, she sighs and turns away.",
      "9": "Her uncleanness is in her skirts;\nShe did not consider her destiny;\nTherefore her collapse was awesome;\nShe had no comforter.\n“O Lord, behold my affliction,\nFor the enemy is exalted!”",
      "10": "The adversary has spread his hand\nOver all her pleasant things;\nFor she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary,\nThose whom You commanded\nNot to enter Your assembly.",
      "11": "All her people sigh,\nThey seek bread;\nThey have given their valuables for food to restore life.\n“See, O Lord, and consider,\nFor I am scorned.”",
      "12": "“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?\nBehold and see\nIf there is any sorrow like my sorrow,\nWhich has been brought on me,\nWhich the Lord has inflicted\nIn the day of His fierce anger.",
      "13": "“From above He has sent fire into my bones,\nAnd it overpowered them;\nHe has spread a net for my feet\nAnd turned me back;\nHe has made me desolate\nAnd faint all the day.",
      "14": "“The yoke of my transgressions was bound;\nThey were woven together by His hands,\nAnd thrust upon my neck.\nHe made my strength fail;\nThe Lord delivered me into the hands of those whom I am not able to withstand.",
      "15": "“The Lord has trampled underfoot all my mighty men in my midst;\nHe has called an assembly against me\nTo crush my young men;\nThe Lord trampled as in a winepress\nThe virgin daughter of Judah.",
      "16": "“For these things I weep;\nMy eye, my eye overflows with water;\nBecause the comforter, who should restore my life,\nIs far from me.\nMy children are desolate\nBecause the enemy prevailed.”",
      "17": "Zion spreads out her hands,\nBut no one comforts her;\nThe Lord has commanded concerning Jacob\nThat those around him become his adversaries;\nJerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.",
      "18": "“The Lord is righteous,\nFor I rebelled against His commandment.\nHear now, all peoples,\nAnd behold my sorrow;\nMy virgins and my young men\nHave gone into captivity.",
      "19": "“I called for my lovers,\nBut they deceived me;\nMy priests and my elders\nBreathed their last in the city,\nWhile they sought food\nTo restore their life.",
      "20": "“See, O Lord, that I am in distress;\nMy soul is troubled;\nMy heart is overturned within me,\nFor I have been very rebellious.\nOutside the sword bereaves,\nAt home it is like death.",
      "21": "“They have heard that I sigh,\nBut no one comforts me.\nAll my enemies have heard of my trouble;\nThey are glad that You have done it.\nBring on the day You have announced,\nThat they may become like me.",
      "22": "“Let all their wickedness come before You,\nAnd do to them as You have done to me\nFor all my transgressions;\nFor my sighs are many,\nAnd my heart is faint.”"
    },
    "2": {
      "1": "How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion\nWith a cloud in His anger!\nHe cast down from heaven to the earth\nThe beauty of Israel,\nAnd did not remember His footstool\nIn the day of His anger.",
      "2": "The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied\nAll the dwelling places of Jacob.\nHe has thrown down in His wrath\nThe strongholds of the daughter of Judah;\nHe has brought them down to the ground;\nHe has profaned the kingdom and its princes.",
      "3": "He has cut off in fierce anger\nEvery horn of Israel;\nHe has drawn back His right hand\nFrom before the enemy.\nHe has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire\nDevouring all around.",
      "4": "Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow;\nWith His right hand, like an adversary,\nHe has slain all who were pleasing to His eye;\nOn the tent of the daughter of Zion,\nHe has poured out His fury like fire.",
      "5": "The Lord was like an enemy.\nHe has swallowed up Israel,\nHe has swallowed up all her palaces;\nHe has destroyed her strongholds,\nAnd has increased mourning and lamentation\nIn the daughter of Judah.",
      "6": "He has done violence to His tabernacle,\nAs if it were a garden;\nHe has destroyed His place of assembly;\nThe Lord has caused\nThe appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion.\nIn His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.",
      "7": "The Lord has spurned His altar,\nHe has abandoned His sanctuary;\nHe has given up the walls of her palaces\nInto the hand of the enemy.\nThey have made a noise in the house of the Lord\nAs on the day of a set feast.",
      "8": "The Lord has purposed to destroy\nThe wall of the daughter of Zion.\nHe has stretched out a line;\nHe has not withdrawn His hand from destroying;\nTherefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;\nThey languished together.",
      "9": "Her gates have sunk into the ground;\nHe has destroyed and broken her bars.\nHer king and her princes are among the nations;\nThe Law is no more,\nAnd her prophets find no vision from the Lord.",
      "10": "The elders of the daughter of Zion\nSit on the ground and keep silence;\nThey throw dust on their heads\nAnd gird themselves with sackcloth.\nThe virgins of Jerusalem\nBow their heads to the ground.",
      "11": "My eyes fail with tears,\nMy heart is troubled;\nMy bile is poured on the ground\nBecause of the destruction of the daughter of my people,\nBecause the children and the infants\nFaint in the streets of the city.",
      "12": "They say to their mothers,\n“Where is grain and wine?”\nAs they swoon like the wounded\nIn the streets of the city,\nAs their life is poured out\nIn their mothers’ bosom.",
      "13": "How shall I console you?\nTo what shall I liken you,\nO daughter of Jerusalem?\nWhat shall I compare with you, that I may comfort you,\nO virgin daughter of Zion?\nFor your ruin is spread wide as the sea;\nWho can heal you?",
      "14": "Your prophets have seen for you\nFalse and deceptive visions;\nThey have not uncovered your iniquity,\nTo bring back your captives,\nBut have envisioned for you false prophecies and delusions.",
      "15": "All who pass by clap their hands at you;\nThey hiss and shake their heads\nAt the daughter of Jerusalem:\n“Is this the city that is called\n‘The perfection of beauty,\nThe joy of the whole earth’?”",
      "16": "All your enemies have opened their mouth against you;\nThey hiss and gnash their teeth.\nThey say, “We have swallowed her up!\nSurely this is the day we have waited for;\nWe have found it, we have seen it!”",
      "17": "The Lord has done what He purposed;\nHe has fulfilled His word\nWhich He commanded in days of old.\nHe has thrown down and has not pitied,\nAnd He has caused an enemy to rejoice over you;\nHe has exalted the horn of your adversaries.",
      "18": "Their heart cried out to the Lord,\n“O wall of the daughter of Zion,\nLet tears run down like a river day and night;\nGive yourself no relief;\nGive your eyes no rest.",
      "19": "“Arise, cry out in the night,\nAt the beginning of the watches;\nPour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord.\nLift your hands toward Him\nFor the life of your young children,\nWho faint from hunger at the head of every street.”",
      "20": "“See, O Lord, and consider!\nTo whom have You done this?\nShould the women eat their offspring,\nThe children they have cuddled?\nShould the priest and prophet be slain\nIn the sanctuary of the Lord?",
      "21": "“Young and old lie\nOn the ground in the streets;\nMy virgins and my young men\nHave fallen by the sword;\nYou have slain them in the day of Your anger,\nYou have slaughtered and not pitied.",
      "22": "“You have invited as to a feast day\nThe terrors that surround me.\nIn the day of the Lord’s anger\nThere was no refugee or survivor.\nThose whom I have borne and brought up\nMy enemies have destroyed.”"
    },
    "3": {
      "1": "I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.",
      "2": "He has led me and made me walk\nIn darkness and not in light.",
      "3": "Surely He has turned His hand against me\nTime and time again throughout the day.",
      "4": "He has aged my flesh and my skin,\nAnd broken my bones.",
      "5": "He has besieged me\nAnd surrounded me with bitterness and woe.",
      "6": "He has set me in dark places\nLike the dead of long ago.",
      "7": "He has hedged me in so that I cannot get out;\nHe has made my chain heavy.",
      "8": "Even when I cry and shout,\nHe shuts out my prayer.",
      "9": "He has blocked my ways with hewn stone;\nHe has made my paths crooked.",
      "10": "He has been to me a bear lying in wait,\nLike a lion in ambush.",
      "11": "He has turned aside my ways and torn me in pieces;\nHe has made me desolate.",
      "12": "He has bent His bow\nAnd set me up as a target for the arrow.",
      "13": "He has caused the arrows of His quiver\nTo pierce my loins.",
      "14": "I have become the ridicule of all my people—\nTheir taunting song all the day.",
      "15": "He has filled me with bitterness,\nHe has made me drink wormwood.",
      "16": "He has also broken my teeth with gravel,\nAnd covered me with ashes.",
      "17": "You have moved my soul far from peace;\nI have forgotten prosperity.",
      "18": "And I said, “My strength and my hope\nHave perished from the Lord.”",
      "19": "Remember my affliction and roaming,\nThe wormwood and the gall.",
      "20": "My soul still remembers\nAnd sinks within me.",
      "21": "This I recall to my mind,\nTherefore I have hope.",
      "22": "Through the Lord’s mercies we are not consumed,\nBecause His compassions fail not.",
      "23": "They are new every morning;\nGreat is Your faithfulness.",
      "24": "“The Lord is my portion,” says my soul,\n“Therefore I hope in Him!”",
      "25": "The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,\nTo the soul who seeks Him.",
      "26": "It is good that one should hope and wait quietly\nFor the salvation of the Lord.",
      "27": "It is good for a man to bear\nThe yoke in his youth.",
      "28": "Let him sit alone and keep silent,\nBecause God has laid it on him;",
      "29": "Let him put his mouth in the dust—\nThere may yet be hope.",
      "30": "Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him,\nAnd be full of reproach.",
      "31": "For the Lord will not cast off forever.",
      "32": "Though He causes grief,\nYet He will show compassion\nAccording to the multitude of His mercies.",
      "33": "For He does not afflict willingly,\nNor grieve the children of men.",
      "34": "To crush under one’s feet\nAll the prisoners of the earth,",
      "35": "To turn aside the justice due a man\nBefore the face of the Most High,",
      "36": "Or subvert a man in his cause—\nThe Lord does not approve.",
      "37": "Who is he who speaks and it comes to pass,\nWhen the Lord has not commanded it?",
      "38": "Is it not from the mouth of the Most High\nThat woe and well-being proceed?",
      "39": "Why should a living man complain,\nA man for the punishment of his sins?",
      "40": "Let us search out and examine our ways,\nAnd turn back to the Lord;",
      "41": "Let us lift our hearts and hands\nTo God in heaven.",
      "42": "We have transgressed and rebelled;\nYou have not pardoned.",
      "43": "You have covered Yourself with anger\nAnd pursued us;\nYou have slain and not pitied.",
      "44": "You have covered Yourself with a cloud,\nThat prayer should not pass through.",
      "45": "You have made us an offscouring and refuse\nIn the midst of the peoples.",
      "46": "All our enemies\nHave opened their mouths against us.",
      "47": "Fear and a snare have come upon us,\nDesolation and destruction.",
      "48": "My eyes overflow with rivers of water\nFor the destruction of the daughter of my people.",
      "49": "My eyes flow and do not cease,\nWithout interruption,",
      "50": "Till the Lord from heaven\nLooks down and sees.",
      "51": "My eyes bring suffering to my soul\nBecause of all the daughters of my city.",
      "52": "My enemies without cause\nHunted me down like a bird.",
      "53": "They silenced my life in the pit\nAnd threw stones at me.",
      "54": "The waters flowed over my head;\nI said, “I am cut off!”",
      "55": "I called on Your name, O Lord,\nFrom the lowest pit.",
      "56": "You have heard my voice:\n“Do not hide Your ear\nFrom my sighing, from my cry for help.”",
      "57": "You drew near on the day I called on You,\nAnd said, “Do not fear!”",
      "58": "O Lord, You have pleaded the case for my soul;\nYou have redeemed my life.",
      "59": "O Lord, You have seen how I am wronged;\nJudge my case.",
      "60": "You have seen all their vengeance,\nAll their schemes against me.",
      "61": "You have heard their reproach, O Lord,\nAll their schemes against me,",
      "62": "The lips of my enemies\nAnd their whispering against me all the day.",
      "63": "Look at their sitting down and their rising up;\nI am their taunting song.",
      "64": "Repay them, O Lord,\nAccording to the work of their hands.",
      "65": "Give them a veiled heart;\nYour curse be upon them!",
      "66": "In Your anger,\nPursue and destroy them\nFrom under the heavens of the Lord."
    },
    "4": {
      "1": "How the gold has become dim!\nHow changed the fine gold!\nThe stones of the sanctuary are scattered\nAt the head of every street.",
      "2": "The precious sons of Zion,\nValuable as fine gold,\nHow they are regarded as clay pots,\nThe work of the hands of the potter!",
      "3": "Even the jackals present their breasts\nTo nurse their young;\nBut the daughter of my people is cruel,\nLike ostriches in the wilderness.",
      "4": "The tongue of the infant clings\nTo the roof of its mouth for thirst;\nThe young children ask for bread,\nBut no one breaks it for them.",
      "5": "Those who ate delicacies\nAre desolate in the streets;\nThose who were brought up in scarlet\nEmbrace ash heaps.",
      "6": "The punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people\nIs greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,\nWhich was overthrown in a moment,\nWith no hand to help her!",
      "7": "Her Nazirites were brighter than snow\nAnd whiter than milk;\nThey were more ruddy in body than rubies,\nLike sapphire in their appearance.",
      "8": "Now their appearance is blacker than soot;\nThey go unrecognized in the streets;\nTheir skin clings to their bones,\nIt has become as dry as wood.",
      "9": "Those slain by the sword are better off\nThan those who die of hunger;\nFor these pine away,\nStricken for lack of the fruits of the field.",
      "10": "The hands of the compassionate women\nHave cooked their own children;\nThey became food for them\nIn the destruction of the daughter of my people.",
      "11": "The Lord has fulfilled His fury,\nHe has poured out His fierce anger.\nHe kindled a fire in Zion,\nAnd it has devoured its foundations.",
      "12": "The kings of the earth,\nAnd all inhabitants of the world,\nWould not have believed\nThat the adversary and the enemy\nCould enter the gates of Jerusalem—",
      "13": "Because of the sins of her prophets\nAnd the iniquities of her priests,\nWho shed in her midst\nThe blood of the just.",
      "14": "They wandered blind in the streets;\nThey have defiled themselves with blood,\nSo that no one would touch their garments.",
      "15": "They cried out to them,\n“Go away, unclean!\nGo away, go away,\nDo not touch us!”\nWhen they fled and wandered,\nThose among the nations said,\n“They shall no longer dwell here.”",
      "16": "The face of the Lord scattered them;\nHe no longer regards them.\nThe people do not respect the priests\nNor show favor to the elders.",
      "17": "Still our eyes failed us,\nWatching vainly for our help;\nIn our watching we watched\nFor a nation that could not save us.",
      "18": "They tracked our steps\nSo that we could not walk in our streets.\nOur end was near;\nOur days were over,\nFor our end had come.",
      "19": "Our pursuers were swifter\nThan the eagles of the heavens.\nThey pursued us on the mountains\nAnd lay in wait for us in the wilderness.",
      "20": "The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the Lord,\nWas caught in their pits,\nOf whom we said, “Under his shadow\nWe shall live among the nations.”",
      "21": "Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom,\nYou who dwell in the land of Uz!\nThe cup shall also pass over to you\nAnd you shall become drunk and make yourself naked.",
      "22": "The punishment of your iniquity is accomplished,\nO daughter of Zion;\nHe will no longer send you into captivity.\nHe will punish your iniquity,\nO daughter of Edom;\nHe will uncover your sins!"
    },
    "5": {
      "1": "Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us;\nLook, and behold our reproach!",
      "2": "Our inheritance has been turned over to aliens,\nAnd our houses to foreigners.",
      "3": "We have become orphans and waifs,\nOur mothers are like widows.",
      "4": "We pay for the water we drink,\nAnd our wood comes at a price.",
      "5": "They pursue at our heels;\nWe labor and have no rest.",
      "6": "We have given our hand to the Egyptians\nAnd the Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.",
      "7": "Our fathers sinned and are no more,\nBut we bear their iniquities.",
      "8": "Servants rule over us;\nThere is none to deliver us from their hand.",
      "9": "We get our bread at the risk of our lives,\nBecause of the sword in the wilderness.",
      "10": "Our skin is hot as an oven,\nBecause of the fever of famine.",
      "11": "They ravished the women in Zion,\nThe maidens in the cities of Judah.",
      "12": "Princes were hung up by their hands,\nAnd elders were not respected.",
      "13": "Young men ground at the millstones;\nBoys staggered under loads of wood.",
      "14": "The elders have ceased gathering at the gate,\nAnd the young men from their music.",
      "15": "The joy of our heart has ceased;\nOur dance has turned into mourning.",
      "16": "The crown has fallen from our head.\nWoe to us, for we have sinned!",
      "17": "Because of this our heart is faint;\nBecause of these things our eyes grow dim;",
      "18": "Because of Mount Zion which is desolate,\nWith foxes walking about on it.",
      "19": "You, O Lord, remain forever;\nYour throne from generation to generation.",
      "20": "Why do You forget us forever,\nAnd forsake us for so long a time?",
      "21": "Turn us back to You, O Lord, and we will be restored;\nRenew our days as of old,",
      "22": "Unless You have utterly rejected us,\nAnd are very angry with us!"
    }
  }
}