Lamentations · Brenton's English Septuagint
Lamentations 1 Brenton's English Septuagint
Audio: World English Bible (WEB), read by Winfred W. Henson · About the recordings
Notes on this text (2)
- Square brackets mark words Brenton supplied for English sense.
- Old Testament only (no New Testament). First printed 1844; the 1851 edition added the deuterocanonical books.
Lamentations is not in PT1904.
1 [][]Aleph. 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.
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2 Beth. 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.
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3 Gimel. 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.
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4 Daleth. The ways of Sion 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.
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5 He. 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.
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6 Vau. And all her beauty has been taken away from the daughter of Sion: her princes were as rams finding no pasture, and are gone [away] in weakness before the face of the pursuer.
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7 Zain. 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.
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8 Heth. Jerusalem has sinned a [great] sin; therefore has she come into tribulation, all that used to honour her have afflicted her, for they have seen her shame: yea, she herself groaned, and turned backward.
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9 Teth. 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.
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10 Jod. 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.
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11 Chaph. 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 dishonoured.
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12 Lamed. 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.
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13 Mem. 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.
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14 Nun. 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.
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15 Samech. 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 wine-press for the virgin daughter of Juda: for these things I weep.
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16 Ain. 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.
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17 Phe. Sion 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.
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18 Tsade. 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.
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19 Koph. 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.
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20 Rhechs. 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.
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21 Chsen. 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.
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22 Thau. 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.
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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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