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

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:5 Lit head
  2. Lamentations 1:5 The personal covenant name of God, a form of I AM WHO I AM, cf. Ex 3:14-15

Beth

The Lord has (A)swallowed up; He has not spared
All the habitations of Jacob.
In His wrath He has (B)pulled down
The strongholds of the daughter of Judah;
He has (C)brought them down to the ground;
He has (D)profaned the kingdom and its princes.

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