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\par }{\MT LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH.



\par }\PoetryChap{1}{\Q \VerseOne{1}{\SC{How}} doth the city sit solitary,
{\ADD{that was}} full of people!

\par }{\Q {\ADD{How}} is she become as a widow! she
{\ADD{that was}} great among the nations,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} princess among the provinces,
{\ADD{how}} is she become tributary!


\par }{\Q \VS{2}She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears
{\ADD{are}} on her cheeks:

\par }{\Q Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort
{\ADD{her:}}

\par }{\Q All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude:

\par }{\Q She dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:

\par }{\Q All her persecutors overtook her between the straits.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts:

\par }{\Q All her gates are desolate: her priests sigh:

\par }{\Q Her virgins
{\ADD{are}} afflicted, and she
{\ADD{is}} in bitterness.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper;

\par }{\Q For the
{\SC{Lord}} hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions:

\par }{\Q Her children are gone
{\ADD{into}} captivity before the enemy.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed:

\par }{\Q Her princes are become like harts
{\ADD{that}} find no pasture,

\par }{\Q And they are gone without strength before the pursuer.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries

\par }{\Q All her pleasant things that she had in the days of old,

\par }{\Q When her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:

\par }{\Q The adversaries saw her,
{\ADD{and}} did mock at her sabbaths.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed:

\par }{\Q All that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:

\par }{\Q Yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Her filthiness
{\ADD{is}} in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end;

\par }{\Q Therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter.

\par }{\Q O
{\SC{Lord}}, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified
{\ADD{himself}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things:

\par }{\Q For she hath seen
{\ADD{that}} the heathen entered into her sanctuary,

\par }{\Q Whom thou didst command
{\ADD{that}} they should not enter into thy congregation.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}All her people sigh, they seek bread;

\par }{\Q They have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul:

\par }{\Q See, O
{\SC{Lord}}, and consider; for I am become vile.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}{\ADD{Is it}} nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see

\par }{\Q If there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me,

\par }{\Q Wherewith the
{\SC{Lord}} hath afflicted
{\ADD{me}} in the day of his fierce anger.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them:

\par }{\Q He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back;

\par }{\Q He hath made me desolate
{\ADD{and}} faint all the day.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand:

\par }{\Q They are wreathed,
{\ADD{and}} come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall,

\par }{\Q The Lord hath delivered me into
{\ADD{their}} hands,
{\ADD{from whom}} I am not able to rise up.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty
{\ADD{men}} in the midst of me:

\par }{\Q He hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men:

\par }{\Q The Lord hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah,
{\ADD{as in}} a winepress.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}For these
{\ADD{things}} I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down
{\ADD{with}} water,

\par }{\Q Because the comforter that
{\ADD{should}} relieve my soul is far from me:

\par }{\Q My children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}Zion spreadeth forth her hands,
{\ADD{and there is}} none to comfort her:

\par }{\Q The
{\SC{Lord}} hath commanded concerning Jacob,
{\ADD{that}} his adversaries
{\ADD{should be}} round about him:

\par }{\Q Jerusalem is as a menstruous
{\ADD{woman}} among them.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}The
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{is}} righteous; for I have rebelled against his commandment:

\par }{\Q Hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow:

\par }{\Q My virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}I called for my lovers,
{\ADD{but}} they deceived me:

\par }{\Q My priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,

\par }{\Q While they sought their meat, to relieve their souls.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Behold, O
{\SC{Lord}}; for I
{\ADD{am}} in distress: my bowels are troubled;

\par }{\Q Mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled:

\par }{\Q Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home
{\ADD{there is}} as death.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}They have heard that I sigh;
{\ADD{there is}} none to comfort me:

\par }{\Q All mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done
{\ADD{it:}}

\par }{\Q Thou wilt bring the day
{\ADD{that}} thou hast called, and they shall be like unto me.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Let all their wickedness come before thee;

\par }{\Q And do unto them, as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions:

\par }{\Q For my sighs
{\ADD{are}} many, and my heart
{\ADD{is}} faint.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{2}{\Q \VerseOne{1}How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} cast down from heaven
{\ADD{unto}} the earth the beauty of Israel,

\par }{\Q And remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!


\par }{\Q \VS{2}The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied:

\par }{\Q He hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah;

\par }{\Q He hath brought
{\ADD{them}} down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}He hath cut off in
{\ADD{his}} fierce anger all the horn of Israel:

\par }{\Q He hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,

\par }{\Q And he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire,
{\ADD{which}} devoureth round about.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}He hath bent his bow like an enemy:
{\ADD{he}} stood
{\ADD{with}} his right hand as an adversary,

\par }{\Q And slew all
{\ADD{that were}} pleasant to the eye,

\par }{\Q In the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel,

\par }{\Q He hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds,

\par }{\Q And hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as
{\ADD{if it were of}} a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly:

\par }{\Q The
{\SC{Lord}} hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,

\par }{\Q And hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary,

\par }{\Q He hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces;

\par }{\Q They have made a noise in the house of the
{\SC{Lord}}, as
{\ADD{in}} the day of a solemn feast.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}The
{\SC{Lord}} hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion:

\par }{\Q He hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying:

\par }{\Q Therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars:

\par }{\Q Her king and her princes
{\ADD{are}} among the Gentiles: the law
{\ADD{is}} no
{\ADD{more;}}

\par }{\Q Her prophets also find no vision from the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
{\ADD{and}} keep silence:

\par }{\Q They have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth:

\par }{\Q The virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled,

\par }{\Q My liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people;

\par }{\Q Because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}They say to their mothers, Where
{\ADD{is}} corn and wine?

\par }{\Q When they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city,

\par }{\Q When their soul was poured out into their mothers’ bosom.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}What
{\ADD{thing}} shall I take to witness for thee? what
{\ADD{thing}} shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem?

\par }{\Q What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion?

\par }{\Q For thy breach
{\ADD{is}} great like the sea: who can heal thee?


\par }{\Q \VS{14}Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee:

\par }{\Q And they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity;

\par }{\Q But have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}All that pass by clap
{\ADD{their}} hands at thee;

\par }{\Q They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,
{\ADD{saying}},

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Is}} this the city that
{\ADD{men}} call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?


\par }{\Q \VS{16}All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee:

\par }{\Q They hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed
{\ADD{her}} up:

\par }{\Q Certainly this
{\ADD{is}} the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}The
{\SC{Lord}} hath done
{\ADD{that}} which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old:

\par }{\Q He hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused
{\ADD{thine}} enemy to rejoice over thee,

\par }{\Q He hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Their heart cried unto the Lord,

\par }{\Q O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night:

\par }{\Q Give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches,

\par }{\Q Pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord:

\par }{\Q Lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children,

\par }{\Q That faint for hunger in the top of every street.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Behold, O
{\SC{Lord}}, and consider to whom thou hast done this.

\par }{\Q Shall the women eat their fruit,
{\ADD{and}} children of a span long?

\par }{\Q Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?


\par }{\Q \VS{21}The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets:

\par }{\Q My virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword;

\par }{\Q Thou hast slain
{\ADD{them}} in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed,
{\ADD{and}} not pitied.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}Thou hast called as
{\ADD{in}} a solemn day my terrors round about,

\par }{\Q So that in the day of the
{\SC{Lord’s}} anger none escaped nor remained:

\par }{\Q Those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{3}{\Q \VerseOne{1}I
{\ADD{am}} the man
{\ADD{that}} hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}He hath led me, and brought
{\ADD{me into}} darkness, but not
{\ADD{into}} light.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand
{\ADD{against me}} all the day.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}He hath builded against me, and compassed
{\ADD{me}} with gall and travail.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made my chain heavy.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my paths crooked.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}He
{\ADD{was}} unto me
{\ADD{as}} a bear lying in wait,
{\ADD{and as}} a lion in secret places.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he hath made me desolate.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}I was a derision to all my people;
{\ADD{and}} their song all the day.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken
{\ADD{with}} wormwood.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath covered me with ashes.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat prosperity.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the
{\SC{Lord}}:


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the gall.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}My soul hath
{\ADD{them}} still in remembrance, and is humbled in me.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}{\ADD{It is of}} the
{\SC{Lord’s}} mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not.


\par }{\Q \VS{23}{\ADD{They are}} new every morning: great
{\ADD{is}} thy faithfulness.


\par }{\Q \VS{24}The
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{is}} my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope in him.


\par }{\Q \VS{25}The
{\SC{Lord}}
{\ADD{is}} good unto them that wait for him, to the soul
{\ADD{that}} seeketh him.


\par }{\Q \VS{26}{\ADD{It is}} good
{\ADD{that a man should}} both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{27}{\ADD{It is}} good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth.


\par }{\Q \VS{28}He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne
{\ADD{it}} upon him.


\par }{\Q \VS{29}He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.


\par }{\Q \VS{30}He giveth
{\ADD{his}} cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.


\par }{\Q \VS{31}For the Lord will not cast off for ever:


\par }{\Q \VS{32}But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies.


\par }{\Q \VS{33}For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.


\par }{\Q \VS{34}To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,


\par }{\Q \VS{35}To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,


\par }{\Q \VS{36}To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{37}Who
{\ADD{is}} he
{\ADD{that}} saith, and it cometh to pass,
{\ADD{when}} the Lord commandeth
{\ADD{it}} not?


\par }{\Q \VS{38}Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?


\par }{\Q \VS{39}Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?


\par }{\Q \VS{40}Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{41}Let us lift up our heart with
{\ADD{our}} hands unto God in the heavens.


\par }{\Q \VS{42}We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.


\par }{\Q \VS{43}Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.


\par }{\Q \VS{44}Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that
{\ADD{our}} prayer should not pass through.


\par }{\Q \VS{45}Thou hast made us
{\ADD{as}} the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.


\par }{\Q \VS{46}All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.


\par }{\Q \VS{47}Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.


\par }{\Q \VS{48}Mine eye runneth down
{\ADD{with}} rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people.


\par }{\Q \VS{49}Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,


\par }{\Q \VS{50}Till the
{\SC{Lord}} look down, and behold from heaven.


\par }{\Q \VS{51}Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.


\par }{\Q \VS{52}Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.


\par }{\Q \VS{53}They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.


\par }{\Q \VS{54}Waters flowed over mine head;
{\ADD{then}} I said, I am cut off.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{55}I called upon thy name, O
{\SC{Lord}}, out of the low dungeon.


\par }{\Q \VS{56}Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.


\par }{\Q \VS{57}Thou drewest near in the day
{\ADD{that}} I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.


\par }{\Q \VS{58}O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.


\par }{\Q \VS{59}O
{\SC{Lord}}, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.


\par }{\Q \VS{60}Thou hast seen all their vengeance
{\ADD{and}} all their imaginations against me.


\par }{\Q \VS{61}Thou hast heard their reproach, O
{\SC{Lord}},
{\ADD{and}} all their imaginations against me;


\par }{\Q \VS{62}The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.


\par }{\Q \VS{63}Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I
{\ADD{am}} their musick.


\par }{\Q \VS{64}Render unto them a recompence, O
{\SC{Lord}}, according to the work of their hands.


\par }{\Q \VS{65}Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.


\par }{\Q \VS{66}Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the
{\SC{Lord}}.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{4}{\Q \VerseOne{1}How is the gold become dim!
{\ADD{how}} is the most fine gold changed!

\par }{\Q The stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold,

\par }{\Q How are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!


\par }{\Q \VS{3}Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones:

\par }{\Q The daughter of my people
{\ADD{is}} become cruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst:

\par }{\Q The young children ask bread,
{\ADD{and}} no man breaketh
{\ADD{it}} unto them.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:

\par }{\Q They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,

\par }{\Q That was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk,

\par }{\Q They were more ruddy
{\ADD{in}} body than rubies, their polishing
{\ADD{was of}} sapphire:


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets:

\par }{\Q Their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}{\ADD{They that be}} slain with the sword are better than
{\ADD{they that be}} slain with hunger:

\par }{\Q For these pine away, stricken through for
{\ADD{want of}} the fruits of the field.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children:

\par }{\Q They were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}The
{\SC{Lord}} hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger,

\par }{\Q And hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the foundations thereof.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the world, would not have believed

\par }{\Q That the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}For the sins of her prophets,
{\ADD{and}} the iniquities of her priests,

\par }{\Q That
{\ADD{have}} shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,


\par }{\Q \VS{14}They have wandered
{\ADD{as}} blind
{\ADD{men}} in the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood,

\par }{\Q So that
{\ADD{men}} could not touch their garments.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}They cried unto them, Depart ye;
{\ADD{it is}} unclean; depart, depart, touch not, when they fled away and wandered:

\par }{\Q They said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn
{\ADD{there}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}The anger of the
{\SC{Lord}} hath divided them; he will no more regard them:

\par }{\Q They respected not the persons of the priests, they favoured not the elders.


\par }{\Q \VS{17}As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help:

\par }{\Q In our watching we have watched for a nation
{\ADD{that}} could not save
{\ADD{us}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}They hunt our steps, that
{\ADD{we}} cannot go in our streets:

\par }{\Q Our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.


\par }{\Q \VS{19}Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven:

\par }{\Q They pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the
{\SC{Lord}}, was taken in their pits,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{Of}} whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen.


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in the land of Uz;

\par }{\Q The cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity:

\par }{\Q He will visit thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.


\par }{\BB \par }


\PoetryChap{5}{\Q \VerseOne{1}Remember, O
{\SC{Lord}}, what is come upon us:

\par }{\Q Consider, and behold our reproach.


\par }{\Q \VS{2}Our inheritance is turned to strangers,

\par }{\Q Our houses to aliens.


\par }{\Q \VS{3}We are orphans and fatherless,

\par }{\Q Our mothers
{\ADD{are}} as widows.


\par }{\Q \VS{4}We have drunken our water for money;

\par }{\Q Our wood is sold
{\ADD{unto us}}.


\par }{\Q \VS{5}Our necks
{\ADD{are}} under persecution:

\par }{\Q We labour,
{\ADD{and}} have no rest.


\par }{\Q \VS{6}We have given the hand
{\ADD{to}} the Egyptians,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And to}} the Assyrians, to be satisfied
{\ADD{with}} bread.


\par }{\Q \VS{7}Our fathers have sinned,
{\ADD{and are}} not;

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} we have borne their iniquities.


\par }{\Q \VS{8}Servants have ruled over us:

\par }{\Q {\ADD{There is}} none that doth deliver
{\ADD{us}} out of their hand.


\par }{\Q \VS{9}We gat our bread with
{\ADD{the peril of}} our lives

\par }{\Q Because of the sword of the wilderness.


\par }{\Q \VS{10}Our skin was black like an oven

\par }{\Q Because of the terrible famine.


\par }{\Q \VS{11}They ravished the women in Zion,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} the maids in the cities of Judah.


\par }{\Q \VS{12}Princes are hanged up by their hand:

\par }{\Q The faces of elders were not honoured.


\par }{\Q \VS{13}They took the young men to grind,

\par }{\Q And the children fell under the wood.


\par }{\Q \VS{14}The elders have ceased from the gate,

\par }{\Q The young men from their musick.


\par }{\Q \VS{15}The joy of our heart is ceased;

\par }{\Q Our dance is turned into mourning.


\par }{\Q \VS{16}The crown is fallen
{\ADD{from}} our head:

\par }{\Q Woe unto us, that we have sinned!


\par }{\Q \VS{17}For this our heart is faint;

\par }{\Q For these
{\ADD{things}} our eyes are dim.


\par }{\Q \VS{18}Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate,

\par }{\Q The foxes walk upon it.


\par }{\BB \par }
{\Q \VS{19}Thou, O
{\SC{Lord}}, remainest for ever;

\par }{\Q Thy throne from generation to generation.


\par }{\Q \VS{20}Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,

\par }{\Q {\ADD{And}} forsake us so long time?


\par }{\Q \VS{21}Turn thou us unto thee, O
{\SC{Lord}}, and we shall be turned;

\par }{\Q Renew our days as of old.


\par }{\Q \VS{22}But thou hast utterly rejected us;

\par }{\Q Thou art very wroth against us.


\par }