25:001:004 The ways of Zion do mourn, because none
come to the solemn
feasts:
all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh,
her
virgins
are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
25:001:005 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies
prosper; for the
lord
hath afflicted her for the multitude of her
transgressions:
her children are gone into captivity before
the
enemy.
25:001:006 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty
is departed: her
princes
are become like harts that find no pasture, and they
are
gone without strength before the pursuer.
25:001:007 Jerusalem 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
at her
sabbaths.
25:001:008 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore
she is removed:
all
that honoured her despise her, because they have seen
her
nakedness:
yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
25:001:009 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth
not her last
end;
therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no
comforter.
O lord, behold my affliction: for the enemy
hath
magnified
himself.
25:001:010 The adversary hath spread out his hand
upon all her pleasant
things:
for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her
sanctuary,
whom thou didst command that they should not enter
into
thy congregation.
25:001:011 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they
have given their
pleasant
things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O lord,
and
consider;
for I am become vile.
25:001:012 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass
by? behold, and see if
there
be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto
me,
wherewith the lord hath afflicted me in the day
of his
fierce
anger.
25:001:013 From above hath he sent fire into my bones,
and it prevaileth
against
them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath
turned
me
back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the
day.
25:001:014 The yoke of my transgressions is bound
by his hand: they are
wreathed,
and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength
to
fall, the lord hath delivered me into their hands,
from
whom
I am not able to rise up.
25:001:015 The lord hath trodden under foot all
my mighty men in the
midst
of me: he hath called an assembly against me to
crush my
young
men: the lord hath trodden the virgin, the
daughter of
Judah,
as in a winepress.


