Lamentations · Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Lamentations 1 Updated Brenton English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
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- Same Septuagint text as Brenton, with modernised spelling.
1 [][]How does the city that was filled with people sit solitary! She is become as a widow: She that was magnified among the nations, [And] princess among the provinces, Has become tributary.
1 How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!
2 She weeps sore in the night, And her tears are on her cheeks; And there is none of all her lovers to comfort her: All that were her friends have dealt deceitfully with her, They are become her enemies.
2 She weeps bitterly in the night. Her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her lovers she has no one to comfort her. All her friends have dealt treacherously with her. They have become her enemies.
3 Judea is gone into captivity by reason of her affliction, And by reason of the abundance of her servitude: She dwells among the nations, She has not found rest: All her pursuers have overtaken her between her oppressors.
3 Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction and because of great servitude. She dwells among the nations. She finds no rest. All her persecutors overtook her in her distress.
4 The ways of Zion mourn, Because there are none that come to the feast: All her gates are ruined: Her priests groan, Her virgins are led captive, And she is in bitterness in herself.
4 The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to the solemn assembly. All her gates are desolate. Her priests sigh. Her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.
5 Her oppressors are become the head, And her enemies have prospered; For the Lord has afflicted her Because of the multitude of her sins: Her young children are gone into captivity Before the face of the oppressor.
5 Her adversaries have become the head. Her enemies prosper; for Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her young children have gone into captivity before the adversary.
6 And all her beauty has been taken away From the daughter of Zion: Her princes were as rams finding no pasture, And are gone [away] in weakness Before the face of the pursuer.
6 All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion. Her princes have become like deer that find no pasture. They have gone without strength before the pursuer.
7 Jerusalem remembered the days of her affliction, And her rejection; [She thought on] all her desirable things Which were from the days of old, When her people fell into the hands of the oppressor, And there was none to help her: When her enemies saw [it] They laughed at her habitation.
7 Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that were from the days of old; when her people fell into the hand of the adversary, and no one helped her. The adversaries saw her. They mocked at her desolations.
8 Jerusalem has sinned a [great] sin; Therefore has she come into tribulation, All that used to honor her have afflicted her, For they have seen her shame: Yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward.
8 Jerusalem has grievously sinned. Therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. Yes, she sighs and turns backward.
9 Her uncleanness is before her feet; She remembered not her last end; She has lowered her boasting [tone], There is none to comfort her. Behold, O Lord, my affliction: For the enemy has magnified himself.
9 Her filthiness was in her skirts. She didn’t remember her latter end. Therefore she has come down astoundingly. She has no comforter. “See, Yahweh, my affliction; for the enemy has magnified himself.”
10 The oppressor has stretched out his hand On all her desirable things: For she has seen the Gentiles Entering into her sanctuary, [Concerning] whom thou didst command That they should not enter into thy congregation.
10 The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things; for she has seen that the nations have entered into her sanctuary, concerning whom you commanded that they should not enter into your assembly.
11 All her people groan, Seeking bread: They have given their desirable things for meat, To restore their soul: Behold, Lord, and look; For she is become dishonored.
11 All her people sigh. They seek bread. They have given their pleasant things for food to refresh their soul. “Look, Yahweh, and see, for I have become despised.”
12 All ye that pass by the way, Turn, and see if there is sorrow like to my sorrow, Which has happened [to me]. The Lord who spoke by me Has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
12 “Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look, and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is brought on me, with which Yahweh has afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
13 He has sent fire from his lofty habitation, He has brought it into my bones: He has spread a net for my feet, He has turned me back: He has made me desolate [And] mourning all the day.
13 “From on high has he sent fire into my bones, and it prevails against them. He has spread a net for my feet. He has turned me back. He has made me desolate and I faint all day long.
14 He has watched over my sins, They are twined about my hands, They have come up on my neck: My strength has failed; For the Lord has laid pains on my hands, I shall not be able to stand.
14 “The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand. They are knit together. They have come up on my neck. He made my strength fail. The Lord has delivered me into their hands, against whom I am not able to stand.
15 The Lord has cut off All my strong men from the midst of me: He has summoned against me a time For crushing my choice men: The Lord has trodden a winepress For the virgin daughter of Judah: For these things I weep.
15 “The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me. He has called a solemn assembly against me to crush my young men. The Lord has trodden the virgin daughter of Judah as in a wine press.
16 Mine eye has poured out water, Because he that should comfort me, That should restore my soul, Has been removed far from me: My sons have been destroyed, Because the enemy has prevailed.
16 “For these things I weep. My eye, my eye runs down with water, because the comforter who should refresh my soul is far from me. My children are desolate, because the enemy has prevailed.”
17 Zion has spread out her hand, [And] there is none to comfort her: The Lord has commanded [concerning] Jacob, His oppressors are round about him: Jerusalem has become among them as a removed woman.
17 Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.
18 The Lord is righteous; For I have provoked his mouth: Hear, I pray you, all people, And behold my grief: My virgins and my young men Are gone into captivity.
18 “Yahweh is righteous, for I have rebelled against his commandment. Please hear all you peoples, and see my sorrow. My virgins and my young men have gone into captivity.
19 I called my lovers, But they deceived me: My priests and my elders Failed in the city; For they sought meat That they might restore their souls, And found [it] not.
19 “I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.
20 Behold, O Lord; for I am afflicted: My belly is troubled, And my heart is turned within me; For I have been grievously rebellious: Abroad the sword has bereaved me, Even as death at home.
20 “Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.
21 Hear, I pray you, for I groan: There is none to comfort me: All mine enemies have heard [of] mine afflictions, And rejoice because thou hast done [it]: Thou hast brought on the day, Thou hast called the time: They are become like to me.
21 “They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before thy face; And strip them, as they have made a gleaning for all my sins: For my groans are many, And my heart is grieved.
22 “Let all their wickedness come before you. Do to them as you have done to me for all my transgressions. For my sighs are many, and my heart is faint.
Cross references (22)
Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.
- 1 Isaiah 3:26; Ezra 4:20; 1 Kings 4:21; Revelation 18:16–17; Isaiah 54:4
- 2 Psalm 6:6; Micah 7:5; Jeremiah 30:14; Ezekiel 23:22–25; Jeremiah 22:20–22
- 3 Lamentations 2:9; Lamentations 4:18–19; 2 Kings 25:21; 2 Kings 25:11; 2 Chronicles 36:20–21
- 4 Joel 1:8–13; Jeremiah 9:11; Lamentations 2:6–7; Jeremiah 14:2; Isaiah 24:4–6
- 5 Psalm 90:7–8; Jeremiah 39:9; Ezekiel 9:9; Deuteronomy 32:15–27; Jeremiah 30:14–15
- 6 Ezekiel 24:25; Ezekiel 24:21; Psalm 44:9–11; Deuteronomy 32:30; Psalm 50:2
- 7 Psalm 79:4; Deuteronomy 4:34–37; Psalm 42:4; Psalm 77:5–9; Lamentations 2:15–16
- 8 Lamentations 1:20–22; Isaiah 59:2–13; Lamentations 1:11; Jeremiah 13:26; Jeremiah 13:22
- 9 Deuteronomy 32:29; Isaiah 47:7; Psalm 25:18; Lamentations 1:17; Ecclesiastes 4:1
- 10 Deuteronomy 23:3; Jeremiah 51:51; Psalm 74:4–8; Isaiah 64:10–11; Lamentations 1:7
- 11 Jeremiah 52:6; Lamentations 2:12; Jeremiah 38:9; 1 Samuel 30:11–12; Deuteronomy 28:52–57
- 12 Luke 23:28–31; Daniel 9:12; Jeremiah 18:16; Jeremiah 30:24; Lamentations 4:6–11
- 13 Habakkuk 3:16; Job 30:30; Ezekiel 17:20; Job 19:6; Psalm 22:14
- 14 Isaiah 47:6; Deuteronomy 28:48; Ezekiel 25:7; Ezekiel 25:4; Jeremiah 28:14
- 15 Isaiah 63:3; Isaiah 28:18; Malachi 4:3; Luke 21:24; Revelation 14:19–20
- 16 Psalm 119:136; Lamentations 1:2; Jeremiah 13:17; Lamentations 3:48–49; Jeremiah 14:17
- 17 Jeremiah 4:31; Isaiah 1:15; Lamentations 1:9; 2 Kings 25:1; 2 Kings 24:2–4
- 18 Psalm 119:75; 1 Samuel 12:14–15; Zephaniah 3:5; Lamentations 1:12; Jeremiah 12:1
- 19 Lamentations 1:11; Lamentations 2:20; Lamentations 1:2; Job 19:13–19; Jeremiah 27:13–15
- 20 Lamentations 2:11; Ezekiel 7:15; Proverbs 28:13; Deuteronomy 32:25; Isaiah 16:11
- 21 Lamentations 1:8; Jeremiah 50:11; Lamentations 1:22; Lamentations 2:15; Lamentations 1:16
- 22 Revelation 6:10; Jeremiah 8:18; Psalm 109:14–15; Nehemiah 4:4–5; Ephesians 3:13
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