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Lamentations · read by Duane Troyer
53 verses, in order. Only the verses Duane 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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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The roads to Zion mourn, because no one comes to her appointed feasts. All her gates are deserted; her priests groan, her maidens grieve, and she herself is bitter with anguish.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. For the LORD has brought her grief because of her many transgressions. Her children have gone away as captives before the enemy.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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The Lord is like an enemy; He has swallowed up Israel. He has swallowed up all her palaces and destroyed her strongholds. He has multiplied mourning and lamentation for the Daughter of Judah.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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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 NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
Lamentations 3
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I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God's wrath.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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He has driven me away and made me walk in darkness instead of light.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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Indeed, He keeps turning His hand against me all day long.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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He has worn away my flesh and skin; He has shattered my bones.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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He has besieged me and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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He has made me dwell in darkness like those dead for ages.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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He has walled me in so I cannot escape; He has weighed me down with chains.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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Even when I cry out and plead for help, He shuts out my prayer.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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He has barred my ways with cut stones; He has made my paths crooked.Read from NASB1995 · Laying hold of Promises
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He forced me off my path and tore me to pieces; He left me without help.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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He has filled me with bitterness; He has intoxicated me with wormwood.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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He has ground my teeth with gravel and trampled me in the dust.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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My soul has been deprived of peace; I have forgotten what prosperity is.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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So I say, "My strength has perished, along with my hope from the LORD."Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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Remember my affliction and wandering, the wormwood and the gall.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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Because of the loving devotion of the LORD we are not consumed, for His mercies never fail.Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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"The LORD is my portion," says my soul, "therefore I will hope in Him."Read from NKJV · Laying hold of Promises
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The LORD is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.Read from ESV · Laying hold of Promises