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Lamentations · read by Chuck Smith
101 verses, in order. Only the verses Chuck read aloud are shown.
Lamentations 1
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How lonely lies the city, once so full of people! She who was great among the nations has become a widow. The princess of the provinces has become a slave.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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She weeps aloud in the night, with tears upon her cheeks. Among all her lovers there is no one to comfort her. All her friends have betrayed her; they have become her enemies.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Judah has gone into exile under affliction and harsh slavery; she dwells among the nations but finds no place to rest. All her pursuers have overtaken her in the midst of her distress.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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All the splendor has departed from the Daughter of Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; they lack the strength to flee in the face of the hunter.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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In the days of her affliction and wandering Jerusalem remembers all the treasures that were hers in days of old. When her people fell into enemy hands she received no help. Her enemies looked upon her, laughing at her downfall.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Her uncleanness stains her skirts; she did not consider her end. Her downfall was astounding; there was no one to comfort her. Look, O LORD, on my affliction, for the enemy has triumphed!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The adversary has seized all her treasures. For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary— those You had forbidden to enter Your assembly.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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He sent fire from on high, and it overpowered my bones. He spread a net for my feet and turned me back. He made me desolate, faint all the day long.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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My transgressions are bound into a yoke, knit together by His hand; they are draped over my neck, and the Lord has broken my strength. He has delivered me into the hands of those I cannot withstand.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The Lord has rejected all the mighty men in my midst; He has summoned an army against me to crush my young warriors. Like grapes in a winepress, the Lord has trampled the Virgin Daughter of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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I called out to my lovers, but they have betrayed me. My priests and elders perished in the city while they searched for food to keep themselves alive.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Let all their wickedness come before You, and deal with them as You have dealt with me because of all my transgressions. For my groans are many, and my heart is faint.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
Lamentations 2
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How the Lord has covered the Daughter of Zion with the cloud of His anger! He has cast the glory of Israel from heaven to earth. He has abandoned His footstool in the day of His anger.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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He has bent His bow like an enemy; His right hand is positioned. Like a foe He has killed all who were pleasing to the eye; He has poured out His wrath like fire on the tent of the Daughter of Zion.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The LORD determined to destroy the wall of the Daughter of Zion. He stretched out a measuring line and did not withdraw His hand from destroying. He made the ramparts and walls lament; together they waste away.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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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 · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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They cry out to their mothers: "Where is the grain and wine?" as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their lives fade away in the arms of their mothers.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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What can I say for you? To what can I compare you, O Daughter of Jerusalem? To what can I liken you, that I may console you, O Virgin Daughter of Zion? For your wound is as deep as the sea. Who can ever heal you?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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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 · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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All your enemies open their mouths against you. They hiss and gnash their teeth, saying, "We have swallowed her up. This is the day for which we have waited. We have lived to see it!"Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The hearts of the people cry out to the Lord. O wall of the Daughter of Zion, let your tears run down like a river day and night. Give yourself no relief, and your eyes no rest.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Arise, cry out in the night from the first watch of the night. Pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to Him for the lives of your children who are fainting from hunger on the corner of every street.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Both young and old lie together in the dust of the streets. My young men and maidens have fallen by the sword. You have slain them in the day of Your anger; You have slaughtered them without compassion.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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You summoned my attackers on every side, as for the day of an appointed feast. In the day of the LORD's anger no one escaped or survived; my enemy has destroyed those I nurtured and reared.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
Lamentations 3
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I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God's wrath.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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He is a bear lying in wait, a lion hiding in ambush.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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So I say, "My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Surely my soul remembers and is humbled within me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Yet I call this to mind, and therefore I have hope:Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in Him."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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It is good to wait quietly for the salvation of the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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It is good for a man to bear the yoke while he is still young.Read from ESV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Let him bury his face in the dust— perhaps there is still hope.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Let him offer his cheek to the one who would strike him; let him be filled with reproach.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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For He does not willingly afflict or grieve the sons of men.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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To crush underfoot all the prisoners of the land,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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to subvert a man in his lawsuit— of these the Lord does not approve.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Who has spoken and it came to pass, unless the Lord has ordained it?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Do not both adversity and good come from the mouth of the Most High?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Why should any mortal man complain, in view of his sins?Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Let us examine and test our ways, and turn back to the LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Let us lift up our hearts and hands to God in heaven:Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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You have covered Yourself with a cloud that no prayer can pass through.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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You have made us scum and refuse among the nations.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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All our enemies open their mouths against us.Read from NASB1995 · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Panic and pitfall have come upon us— devastation and destruction.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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My eyes bring grief to my soul because of all the daughters of my city.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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They dropped me alive into a pit and cast stones upon me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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I called on Your name, O LORD, out of the depths of the Pit.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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You have seen, O LORD, the wrong done to me; vindicate my cause!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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You have seen all their malice, all their plots against me.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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the slander and murmuring of my assailants against me all day long.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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You will pay them back what they deserve, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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You will pursue them in anger and exterminate them from under Your heavens, O LORD.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
Lamentations 4
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How the gold has become tarnished, the pure gold has become dull! The gems of the temple lie scattered on every street corner.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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How the precious sons of Zion, once worth their weight in pure gold, are now esteemed as jars of clay, the work of a potter's hands!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The nursing infant's tongue clings in thirst to the roof of his mouth. Little children beg for bread, but no one gives them any.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The hands of compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.Read from NKJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The kings of the earth did not believe, nor any people of the world, that an enemy or a foe could enter the gates of Jerusalem.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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But this was for the sins of her prophets and the guilt of her priests, who shed the blood of the righteous in her midst.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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They wandered blind in the streets, defiled by this blood, so that no one dared to touch their garments.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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"Go away! Unclean!" men shouted at them. "Away, away! Do not touch us!" So they fled and wandered. Among the nations it was said, "They can stay here no longer."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The presence of the LORD has scattered them; He regards them no more. The priests are shown no honor; the elders find no favor.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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All the while our eyes were failing as we looked in vain for help. We watched from our towers for a nation that could not save us.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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They stalked our every step, so that we could not walk in our streets. Our end drew near, our time ran out, for our end had come!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The LORD's anointed, the breath of our life, was captured in their pits. We had said of him, "Under his shadow we will live among the nations."Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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O Daughter of Zion, your punishment is complete; He will not prolong your exile. But He will punish your iniquity, O Daughter of Edom; He will expose your sins.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
Lamentations 5
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Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers, our houses to foreigners.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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We submitted to Egypt and Assyria to get enough bread.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Our fathers sinned and are no more, but we bear their punishment.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Slaves rule over us; there is no one to deliver us from their hands.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the wilderness.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Our skin is as hot as an oven with fever from our hunger.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Women have been ravished in Zion, virgins in the cities of Judah.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Because of this, our hearts are faint; because of these, our eyes grow dim—Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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because of Mount Zion, which lies desolate, patrolled by foxes.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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Restore us to Yourself, O LORD, so we may return; renew our days as of old,Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations
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unless You have utterly rejected us and remain angry with us beyond measure.Read from KJV · (Through the Bible) Lamentations