1. How lonely sits the city that was full of people!
   How like a widow is she, who was great among the nations!
   The princess among the provinces (Is. 47:7-9;   Ezra 4:20) has become a slave!
2. She weeps bitterly in the night, her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her.  All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they have become her enemies.  (Jer. 13:17;   Job 7:3)
3. Judah has gone into captivity, under affliction and hard servitude;  (Jer. 52:27)  she dwells among the nations,  (Lam. 2:9)  she finds no rest; all her persecutors overtake her in dire straits.  (Deut. 28:65)
   
4. The roads to Zion mourn because no one comes to the set feasts.  All her gates are desolate; her priests sigh,  (Is. 27:10)  her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
   
5. Her adversaries have become the master, her enemies prosper; for the Lord has afflicted her  (Deut. 28:43)  because of the multitude of her transgressions.  Her children have gone into captivity before the enemy.  (Jer. 52:28;   Dan. 9:7;   Dan. 9:16)
   
12. "Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?  Behold and see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which has been brought on me, which the Lord has inflicted on me in the day of His fierce anger.  (Dan. 9:12)
    
13. "From above He has sent fire into my bones, and it overpowered them; He has spread a net for my feet  (Ezek. 12:13;   Ezek. 17:20)  and turned me back; He has made me desolate and faint all the day.  (Ps. 66:11)

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1. How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in His anger!  He cast down from heaven to the earth  (Matt. 11:23)  the beauty of Israel, and did not remember His footstool  (2 Sam. 1:19;   Ps. 99:5)  in the day of His anger.
2. The Lord has swallowed up and has not pitied all the habitations of Jacob. He has thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah;  (Lam. 3:43)  He has brought them down to the ground; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes.
3. He has cut off in fierce anger every horn of Israel; He has drawn back His right hand  (Ps. 74:11)  from before the enemy. He has blazed against Jacob like a flaming fire  (Ps. 89:46)  which devours all around.
4. Standing like an enemy, He has bent His bow; with His right hand, like an adversary, He has slain all who were pleasing to His eye; on the tent of the daughter of Zion, He has poured out His fury like fire.
5. The Lord was like an enemy.  He has swallowed up Israel, He has swallowed up all her palaces; He has destroyed her strongholds,  (Jer. 30:14;   Jer. 52:13)  and has increased mourning and lamentation in the daughter of Judah.  (Job 13:24)
6. He has done violence to His tabernacle,  (Ps. 80:12)  as if it were a garden; He has destroyed His place of assembly; the Lord has caused the appointed feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion. In His burning indignation He has spurned the king and the priest.  (Is. 1:8;   Is. 43:28)
7. The Lord has spurned His altar, He has abandoned His sanctuary; He has given up the walls of her palaces  (Ezek. 24:21)  into the hand of the enemy. They have made a noise in the house of the Lord as on the day of a set feast.  (Ps. 74:4)
8. The Lord has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion.  (Jer. 52:14)  He has stretched out a line; He has not withdrawn His hand from destroying; therefore He has caused the rampart and wall to lament;  (Is. 34:11)  they languished together.
21. "Young and old lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men have fallen by the sword; You have slain them in the day of Your anger, You have slaughtered and not pitied.  (2 Chr. 36:17;   Jer. 18:21)
22. "You have invited as to a feast day the terrors that surround me.  In the day of the Lord's anger there was no refugee or survivor.  (Ps. 31:13)  Those whom I have borne and brought up  (Hos. 9:12)  my enemies have destroyed."  (Jer. 16:2-4;   Jer. 44:7)
    

1. I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of His wrath.
2. He has led me and made me walk in darkness and not in light.
3. Surely He has turned His hand against me time and time again throughout the day.
   
19. Remember my affliction and roaming, the wormwood and the gall.  (Jer. 9:15)
    
20. My soul still remembers and sinks within me.
    
21. This I recall to my mind, therefore I have hope.
    
22. Through the Lord's mercies we are not consumed, because His compassions fail not.  (Ps. 78:38;   Mal. 3:6)
    
23. They are new every morning;  (Is. 33:2)  great is Your faithfulness.
24. "The Lord is my portion," says my soul,  (Ps. 16:5;   Ps. 73:26)  "therefore I hope in Him!"  (Ps. 42:5)
25. The Lord is good to those who wait for Him,  (Is. 30:18)  to the soul who seeks Him.
26. It is good that one should hope and wait quietly for the salvation of the Lord.  (Ps. 4:4;   Ps. 37:7;   Rom. 4:16-18)    ( PASS ON TO A FRIEND)
27. It is good for a man to bear the yoke in his youth.  (Ps. 94:12;   Eccl. 12:1)
28. Let him sit alone and keep silent, because God has laid it on him;  (Jer. 15:17)
29. Let him put his mouth in the dust - - there may yet be hope.  (Job 42:6)
30. Let him give his cheek to the one who strikes him, and be full of reproach.  (Job 16:10)
35. To turn aside the justice due a man before the face of the Most High,
36. or subvert a man in his cause - - The Lord does not approve.
    

1. How the gold has become dim!  How changed the fine gold!  The stones of the sanctuary are scattered at the head of every street.
2. The precious sons of Zion, valuable as fine gold, how they are regarded as clay pots, the work of the hands of the potter!
3. Even the jackals present their breasts to nurse their young; but the daughter of my people has become cruel, like ostriches in the wilderness.  (Job 39:14-17)
4. The tongue of the infant clings to the roof of its mouth for thirst; the young children ask for bread, but no one breaks it for them.  (Ps. 22:15)
5. Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those who were brought up in scarlet embrace ash heaps.  (Job 24:8)

1. Remember, O Lord, what has come upon us; look, and behold our reproach!  (Ps. 89:50;   Ps. 119:153;   Lam. 2:15)