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13 He sent fire from on high,[a]
    making it penetrate my bones.[b]
He stretched out a net at my feet,
    forcing me to turn back.
He made me desolate;
    I’m fainting all day long.

14 The yoke of my sins was bound on,[c]
    fastened together by his hand.
They settled on my neck;
    he caused my strength to fail.
The Lord placed me in the power
    of those I cannot resist.

15 He rejected all the valiant men—
    the Lord, in my midst.
He set a time to meet with me
    to crush my young warriors.
The Lord has trampled, as in a winepress,
    the fair virgin that is[d] Judah.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:13 Lit. high into my bones
  2. Lamentations 1:13 Lit. overcoming her
  3. Lamentations 1:14 Lit. was heavy
  4. Lamentations 1:15 Lit. the virgin daughter of