RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

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How does the city sit alone, that was full of people!
How she is become as a widow she that was great among
the nations, and a princess among the provinces, how she
has become an eved!
2 She weeps heavy in the night, and her tears are on her
cheeks: among all her lovers she has none to comfort her:
all her chaverim have dealt treacherously with her, they
are become her enemies.
3 Yahudah has gone into exile because of affliction, and
because of great labor: she dwells among the nations, 4110
she finds no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between
the narrow places.
4 The ways of Tzion do mourn, because none come to the
moadim: all her gates are desolate: her Kohanim sigh, her
virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
5 Her adversaries have become the rulers, her enemies
prosper; for vuvh has afflicted her for the multitude of her
transgressions: her children are gone into exile before the
enemy.
6 And from the daughter of Tzion all her beauty has
departed: her rulers are become like harts that find no
pasture, and they go without strength before their pursuer.
7 Yahrushalayim remembered in the days of her affliction
and of her miseries, all her pleasant things that she had in
the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the
enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her,
and did mock her Shabbats.
8 Yahrushalayim has grievously sinned; therefore she has
been removed: all that honored her despise her, because
they have seen her nakedness: yes, she sighed, and turned
away.
9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembers not her last
end; therefore her collapse was awesome: she had no
comforter. 4111 O vuvh, behold my affliction: for the
enemy has magnified himself.
10 The adversary has spread out his hand upon all her
pleasant things: for she has seen that the heathens entered
into her Kadosh-Place, whom You did command that they
should not enter into Your congregation.
11 All her people sigh, they seek lechem; they barter their
pleasant things for food to relieve their being: see, O
vuvh, and consider; for I am become despised.
12 Is it nothing to you, all you that pass by? Look, and
see if there is any sorrow like my sorrow, which is done
to me, by which vuvh has afflicted me in the day of His
fierce anger.
13 From above He sent fire into my bones, and it
prevailed against them: He has spread a net for my feet,
He has turned me back: He has made me desolate and
faint all the day.
14 The yoke of my transgressions is bound by His hand:
they are wreathed, and come up upon my neck: He has
made my strength to fall, vuvh has delivered me into their
hands, from whom I am not able to rise up. 4112
15 vuvh has trodden under foot all my mighty men in the
midst of me: He has called a company against me to crush
my young men: vuvh has trodden the virgin, the daughter
of Yahudah, as in a winepress.
16 For these things I weep; my eye runs down with
Echah – vfht vfht – Lamentations
To Our Forefathers Yisrael
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mayim, because the comforter that should relieve my
being is far from me: my children are desolate, because
the enemy has prevailed.
17 Tzion spreads forth her hands, and there is none to
comfort her: vuvh has commanded concerning Yaakov,
that his adversaries should be around him: Yahrushalayim
is as an unclean woman in nidah among them.
18 vuvh is tzadik; for I have rebelled against His Torah:
listen all my people, and behold my sorrow: my virgins
and my young men are gone into exile.
19 I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my
Kohanim and my zechanim died in the city, while they
sought food to relieve their souls.
20 See, O vuvh; for I am in distress: my inward parts are
troubled; my lev is turned within me; for I have
grievously rebelled: from abroad the sword has bereaved
us, at home there is death.
21 They have heard me sigh: there is none to comfort me:
all my enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad
that You have done it: You will bring on the day that You
have announced to them also, and they shall be like me.
22 Let all their wickedness come before You; and do to
them, as You have done to me for all my transgressions:
for my sighs are many, and my lev is faint.
How has vuvh covered the daughter of Tzion with a
cloud in His anger, and cast down from the shamayim to
the earth the beauty of Yisrael, and remembered not His
footstool in the day of His anger!
2 vuvh has swallowed up all the pastures of Yaakov, and
has not pitied: He has thrown down in His wrath the
strongholds of the daughter of Yahudah; He has brought
them down to the ground: He has polluted the malchut
and its rulers.
3 He has cut off in His fierce anger all the horns of
Yisrael: He has drawn back His Right Hand from before
the enemy, and He burned against Yaakov like a flaming
fire, that devours all things all around.
4 He has bent His bow like an enemy: He stood with His
Right Hand as an adversary, and killed all that were
pleasant to the eye in the Tabernacle of the daughter of
Tzion: He poured out His fury like fire.
5 vuvh was as an enemy: He has swallowed up Yisrael,
He has swallowed up all her palaces: He has destroyed
her strongholds, and has increased in the daughter of
Yahudah mourning and lamentation.
6 And He has violently taken away His Tabernacle, 4113
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as if it were of a gan: He has destroyed the places of the
congregation: vuvh has caused the moadim and Shabbats
to be forgotten in Tzion, and has despised in the
indignation of His anger both the melech and the kohen.
7 vuvh has cast off His altar, He has rejected His Kadosh-
Place, He has given up into the hands of the enemy the
walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the Bayit
of vuvh, as in the day of a solemn moed.
8 vuvh has purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of
Tzion: He has stretched out a line, He has not withdrawn
His hand from destroying it: therefore He made her forces
and the wall to lament; they languished together.