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Lamentations · read by Brian Long
31 verses, in order. Only the verses Brian read aloud are shown.
Lamentations 1
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For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
Lamentations 2
9
Her gates have sunk into the ground; He has destroyed and shattered their bars. Her king and her princes are exiled among the nations, the law is no more, and even her prophets find no vision from the LORD.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
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My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
14
The visions of your prophets were empty and deceptive; they did not expose your guilt to ward off your captivity. The burdens they envisioned for you were empty and misleading.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
15
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: "Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?"Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
Lamentations 3
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Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
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Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
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Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
22
Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
23
They are new every morning; great is Your faithfulness!Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
24
"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in Him."Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
25
The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
26
It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
27
It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.Read from ESV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
28
Let him sit alone in silence, for God has disciplined him.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
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Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
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You have covered Yourself in anger and pursued us; You have killed without pity.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
44
You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
45
You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
46
All our enemies open their mouths against us.Read from NASB1995 · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
47
Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.Read from NKJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
48
Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.Read from KJV · A Desperate Hour Calls For A Radical Response
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My eyes overflow unceasingly, without relief,Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
50
until the LORD looks down from heaven and sees.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
51
My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
55
I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
56
You heard my plea: "Do not ignore my cry for relief."Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
57
You drew near when I called on You; You said, "Do not be afraid."Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
58
You defend my cause, O Lord; You redeem my life.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
Lamentations 4
6
The punishment of the daughter of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in an instant without a hand turned to help her.Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!
Lamentations 5
21
Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,Read from KJV · The Land Is in Ruins, Weep All Ye People!