Lamentations 5:1

You will eat the fruit of your own body, the flesh of your sons and of your daughters, whom Yahweh your God has given you, in the siege and in the distress with which your enemies will distress you.

Then I said to them, “You see the bad situation that we are in, how Jerusalem lies waste, and its gates are burned with fire. Come, let’s build up the wall of Jerusalem, that we won’t be disgraced.”

He remembered that they were but flesh, a wind that passes away, and doesn’t come again.

Yahweh will scatter you among all peoples, from one end of the earth to the other end of the earth. There you will serve other gods which you have not known, you nor your fathers, even wood and stone.

Won’t you revive us again, that your people may rejoice in you?

Whereas you don’t know what your life will be like tomorrow. For what is your life? For you are a vapor that appears for a little time, and then vanishes away.

Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.

Yahweh said to him, “Therefore whoever slays Cain, vengeance will be taken on him sevenfold.” Yahweh appointed a sign for Cain, so that anyone finding him would not strike him.

You shall say before Yahweh your God, “I have put away the holy things out of my house, and also have given them to the Levite, to the foreigner, to the fatherless, and to the widow, according to all your commandment which you have commanded me. I have not transgressed any of your commandments, neither have I forgotten them.

All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down the walls around Jerusalem.

How much more, those who dwell in houses of clay, whose foundation is in the dust, who are crushed before the moth!

Men will clap their hands at him, and will hiss him out of his place.

You make us a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and a derision to those who are around us.

Beautiful in elevation, the joy of the whole earth, is Mount Zion, on the north sides, the city of the great King.

Because for your sake, I have borne reproach. Shame has covered my face.

Remember how short my time is, for what vanity you have created all the children of men!

Let your work appear to your servants, your glory to their children.

Look down from heaven, and see from the habitation of your holiness and of your glory. Where are your zeal and your mighty acts? The yearning of your heart and your compassion is restrained toward me.

But you, Yahweh, know me. You see me, and test my heart toward you. Pull them out like sheep for the slaughter, and prepare them for the day of slaughter.

to make their land an astonishment, and a perpetual hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished, and shake his head.

I will cause them to eat the flesh of their sons and the flesh of their daughters. They will each eat the flesh of his friend in the siege and in the distress, with which their enemies, and those who seek their life, will distress them.” ’

You show loving kindness to thousands, and repay the iniquity of the fathers into the bosom of their children after them. The great, the mighty God, Yahweh of Armies is your name:

The Chaldeans burned the king’s house, and the houses of the people, with fire, and broke down the walls of Jerusalem.

My eyes fail with tears. My heart is troubled. My liver is poured on the earth, because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the young children and the infants swoon in the streets of the city.

The hands of the pitiful women have boiled their own children. They were their food in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Your renown went out among the nations for your beauty; for it was perfect, through my majesty which I had put on you,” says the Lord Yahweh.

There is no healing your wound, for your injury is fatal. All who hear the report of you clap their hands over you; for who hasn’t felt your endless cruelty?

You will eat bread by the sweat of your face until you return to the ground, for you were taken out of it. For you are dust, and you shall return to dust.”

“ ‘If you walk contrary to me, and won’t listen to me, then I will bring seven times more plagues on you according to your sins.

then I will walk contrary to you in wrath. I will also chastise you seven times for your sins.

Outside the sword will bereave, and in the rooms, terror on both young man and virgin, the nursing infant with the gray-haired man.

Samson called to Yahweh, and said, “Lord Yahweh, remember me, please, and strengthen me, please, only this once, God, that I may be at once avenged of the Philistines for my two eyes.”

I also could speak as you do. If your soul were in my soul’s place, I could join words together against you, and shake my head at you,

You make us turn back from the adversary. Those who hate us take plunder for themselves.

Out of Zion, the perfection of beauty, God shines out.

Their priests fell by the sword, and their widows couldn’t weep.

You make us a source of contention to our neighbors. Our enemies laugh among themselves.

Satisfy us in the morning with your loving kindness, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days.

For he knows how we are made. He remembers that we are dust.

My flesh trembles for fear of you. I am afraid of your judgments.

Consider my affliction, and deliver me, for I don’t forget your law.

Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them. In his love and in his pity he redeemed them. He bore them, and carried them all the days of old.

But now, Yahweh, you are our Father. We are the clay and you our potter. We all are the work of your hand.

“Behold, it is written before me: I will not keep silence, but will repay, yes, I will repay into their bosom,

“Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves! Let’s enter into the fortified cities, and let’s be silent there; for Yahweh our God has put us to silence, and given us poisoned water to drink, because we have sinned against Yahweh.

If I go out into the field, then, behold, the slain with the sword! If I enter into the city, then, behold, those who are sick with famine! For both the prophet and the priest go about in the land, and have no knowledge.’ ”

As for me, I have not hurried from being a shepherd after you. I haven’t desired the woeful day. You know. That which came out of my lips was before your face.

I will make this city an astonishment and a hissing. Everyone who passes by it will be astonished and hiss because of all its plagues.

But Yahweh of Armies, who tests the righteous, who sees the heart and the mind, let me see your vengeance on them, for I have revealed my cause to you.

All the army of the Chaldeans, who were with the captain of the guard, broke down all the walls of Jerusalem all around.

“I called for my lovers, but they deceived me. My priests and my elders gave up the spirit in the city, while they sought food for themselves to refresh their souls.

“They have heard that I sigh. There is no one to comfort me. All my enemies have heard of my trouble. They are glad that you have done it. You will bring the day that you have proclaimed, and they will be like me.

Her gates have sunk into the ground. He has destroyed and broken her bars. Her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not. Yes, her prophets find no vision from Yahweh.

He has built against me, and surrounded me with bitterness and hardship.

He has filled me with bitterness. He has stuffed me with wormwood.

“ ‘The sword is outside, and the pestilence and the famine within. He who is in the field will die by the sword. He who is in the city will be devoured by famine and pestilence.

For the Lord Yahweh says: “Because you have clapped your hands, stamped with the feet, and rejoiced with all the contempt of your soul against the land of Israel;

I heard, and my body trembled. My lips quivered at the voice. Rottenness enters into my bones, and I tremble in my place, because I must wait quietly for the day of trouble, for the coming up of the people who invade us.

“Give, and it will be given to you: good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over, will be given to you. For with the same measure you measure it will be measured back to you.”

I said to the king, “Let the king live forever! Why shouldn’t my face be sad, when the city, the place of my fathers’ tombs, lies waste, and its gates have been consumed with fire?”

I went out by night by the valley gate, even toward the jackal’s well, then to the dung gate, and inspected the walls of Jerusalem, which were broken down, and its gates were consumed with fire.

Remember me, my God, for good, all that I have done for this people.

My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

In my distress, I cried to Yahweh. He answered me.

I lift up my eyes to you, you who sit in the heavens.

and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

My anguish, my anguish! I am pained at my very heart! My heart trembles within me. I can’t hold my peace, because you have heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

But, Yahweh of Armies, who judges righteously, who tests the heart and the mind, I will see your vengeance on them; for to you I have revealed my cause.

“House of Israel, can’t I do with you as this potter?” says Yahweh. “Behold, as the clay in the potter’s hand, so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

For as often as I speak, I cry out; I cry, “Violence and destruction!” because Yahweh’s word has been made a reproach to me, and a derision, all day.

until Yahweh looks down, and sees from heaven.

You have heard their reproach, Yahweh, and all their plans against me,

I will scatter you among the nations, and disperse you through the countries. I will consume your filthiness out of you.

This is the joyous city that lived carelessly, that said in her heart, “I am, and there is no one besides me.” How she has become a desolation, a place for animals to lie down in! Everyone who passes by her will hiss, and shake their fists.

to show mercy toward our fathers, to remember his holy covenant,

Alexander, the coppersmith, did much evil to me. The Lord will repay him according to his deeds,

They said to me, “The remnant who are left of the captivity there in the province are in great affliction and reproach. The wall of Jerusalem is also broken down, and its gates are burned with fire.”

“Remember, I beg you, the word that you commanded your servant Moses, saying, ‘If you trespass, I will scatter you among the peoples;

“Hear, our God; for we are despised. Turn back their reproach on their own head. Give them up for a plunder in a land of captivity.

Oh remember that my life is a breath. My eye will no more see good.

Remember, I beg you, that you have fashioned me as clay. Will you bring me into dust again?

Behold, and answer me, Yahweh, my God. Give light to my eyes, lest I sleep in death;

Consider my affliction and my travail. Forgive all my sins.

I will be glad and rejoice in your loving kindness, for you have seen my affliction. You have known my soul in adversities.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

Pay back to our neighbors seven times into their bosom their reproach with which they have reproached you, Lord.

All who pass by the way rob him. He has become a reproach to his neighbors.

Yahweh, remember David and all his affliction,

Yahweh, you know. Remember me, visit me, and avenge me of my persecutors. You are patient, so don’t take me away. Know that for your sake I have suffered reproach.

“We are confounded, because we have heard reproach. Confusion has covered our faces, for strangers have come into the sanctuaries of Yahweh’s house.”

“Look, Yahweh; for I am in distress. My heart is troubled. My heart turns over within me, for I have grievously rebelled. Abroad, the sword bereaves. At home, it is like death.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, “Is this the city that men called ‘The perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth’?”

“Look, Yahweh, and see to whom you have done thus! Should the women eat their offspring, the children that they held and bounced on their knees? Should the priest and the prophet be killed in the sanctuary of the Lord?

Remember my affliction and my misery, the wormwood and the bitterness.

For the statutes of Omri are kept, and all the works of Ahab’s house. You walk in their counsels, that I may make you a ruin, and her inhabitants a hissing; And you will bear the reproach of my people.”

Yahweh, I have heard of your fame. I stand in awe of your deeds, Yahweh. Renew your work in the middle of the years. In the middle of the years make it known. In wrath, you remember mercy.

He said to Jesus, “Lord, remember me when you come into your Kingdom.”

Now, Lord, look at their threats, and grant to your servants to speak your word with all boldness,