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Daleth

The roads [a]of Zion are in mourning
Because (A)no one comes to the appointed times.
All her gates are (B)desolate;
Her priests are sighing,
Her (C)virgins are grieving,
And she herself [b]is (D)bitter.

He

Her adversaries have become [c]her masters;
Her enemies are complacent;
For [d]Yahweh has (E)caused her grief
Because of the greatness of her transgressions;
Her infants have gone away
As captives before the adversary.

Vav

So all her (F)majesty
Has gone out from the daughter of Zion;
Her princes have become like deer
That have found no pasture;
So they have [e](G)fled without strength
Before the pursuer.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:4 Or to
  2. Lamentations 1:4 Or suffers bitterly
  3. Lamentations 1:5 Lit head
  4. Lamentations 1:5 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15
  5. Lamentations 1:6 Lit gone