God’s Word
For Everyday Life

How the city sits solitary,

She weeps bitterly in the night.

Judah has gone into captivity because of affliction

The roads to Zion mourn,

Her adversaries have become the head.

All majesty has departed from the daughter of Zion.

Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and of her miseries

Jerusalem has grievously sinned.

Her filthiness was in her skirts.

The adversary has spread out his hand on all her pleasant things;

All her people sigh.

“Is it nothing to you, all you who pass by?

“From on high has he sent fire into my bones,

“The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand.

“The Lord has set at nothing all my mighty men within me.

“For these things I weep.

Zion spreads out her hands.

“The LORD is righteous,

“I called for my lovers,

“Look, LORD; for I am in distress.

“They have heard that I sigh.

“Let all their wickedness come before you.