Lamentations, King James Bible
The full text of Lamentations from the King James Version of the Bible, verse by verse.
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| ID | Testament | BookNbr | Book | Chapter | VerseNbr | Verse |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 1 | How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! |
| 2 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 2 | She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies. |
| 3 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 3 | Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. |
| 4 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 4 | 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. |
| 5 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 5 | 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. |
| 6 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 6 | 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. |
| 7 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 7 | 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. |
| 8 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 8 | 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. |
| 9 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 9 | 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. |
| 10 | Old Testament | 25 | Lamentations | 1 | 10 | 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. |
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