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Lamentations 2 King James Version (with Apocrypha)

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Lamentations is not in PT1904.

KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
1 How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, [and] cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
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2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought [them] down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
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3 He hath cut off in [his] fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, [which] devoureth round about.
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4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all [that were] pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
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5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
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6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as [if it were of] a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
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7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
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8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
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9 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;] her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
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10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, [and] keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
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11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
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12 They say to their mothers, Where [is] corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.
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13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach [is] great like the sea: who can heal thee?
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14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
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15 All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
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16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed [her] up: certainly this [is] the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen [it].
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17 The LORD hath done [that] which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused [thine] enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
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18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
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19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
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20 ¶ Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, [and] children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
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21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain [them] in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, [and] not pitied.
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22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD’s anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.
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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. 1 Psalm 132:7; 1 Chronicles 28:2; Ezekiel 28:14–16; Lamentations 3:43–44; Revelation 12:7–9
  2. 2 Psalm 89:39–40; Lamentations 2:17; Lamentations 3:43; Isaiah 25:12; Isaiah 43:28
  3. 3 Psalm 74:11; Psalm 75:5; Isaiah 42:25; Psalm 75:10; Psalm 89:46
  4. 4 Jeremiah 7:20; Ezekiel 24:25; Isaiah 42:25; Jeremiah 21:5; Job 6:4
  5. 5 Lamentations 2:2; Jeremiah 30:14; 2 Kings 25:9; Jeremiah 52:13; Lamentations 2:4
  6. 6 Zephaniah 3:18; Lamentations 1:4; Lamentations 4:16; Lamentations 4:20; Malachi 2:9
  7. 7 Psalm 74:3–8; Amos 2:5; Ezekiel 24:21; Psalm 78:59–61; Jeremiah 52:13
  8. 8 2 Kings 21:13; Isaiah 3:26; Jeremiah 14:2; Isaiah 34:11; Jeremiah 5:10
  9. 9 Ezekiel 7:26; Hosea 3:4; Psalm 74:9; Nehemiah 1:3; Micah 3:6–7
  10. 10 Isaiah 3:26; Job 2:12–13; Isaiah 15:3; Ezekiel 7:18; Lamentations 1:4
  11. 11 Lamentations 1:20; Job 16:13; Lamentations 1:16; Jeremiah 4:19; Psalm 6:7
  12. 12 Ezekiel 30:24; Isaiah 53:12
  13. 13 Lamentations 1:12; Jeremiah 30:12–15; 2 Samuel 5:20; Jeremiah 8:22; Jeremiah 14:17
  14. 14 Jeremiah 5:31; Isaiah 58:1; Ezekiel 22:28; Ezekiel 22:25; Micah 3:5–7
  15. 15 Jeremiah 18:16; Psalm 48:2; Psalm 50:2; Jeremiah 19:8; Ezekiel 25:6
  16. 16 Psalm 35:21; Lamentations 3:46; Psalm 37:12; Job 16:9–10; Psalm 56:2
  17. 17 Ezekiel 5:11; Psalm 89:42; Lamentations 2:1–2; Leviticus 26:14–46; Deuteronomy 28:15–68
  18. 18 Psalm 119:145; Lamentations 3:48–49; Lamentations 2:8; Psalm 119:136; Lamentations 1:16
  19. 19 Psalm 62:8; Isaiah 26:9; Psalm 119:147–148; Psalm 142:2; Mark 1:35
  20. 20 Lamentations 4:10; Jeremiah 19:9; Psalm 78:64; Lamentations 4:13; Exodus 32:11
  21. 21 Zechariah 11:6; 2 Chronicles 36:17; Lamentations 3:43; Jeremiah 13:14; Jeremiah 18:21
  22. 22 Jeremiah 6:25; Psalm 31:13; Jeremiah 20:3; Jeremiah 16:2–4; Isaiah 24:17–18

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences