39 You have (A)renounced (B)the covenant with your servant;
    you have (C)defiled his (D)crown in the dust.

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39 You have renounced the covenant with your servant
    and have defiled his crown in the dust.(A)

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18 Say to (A)the king and (B)the queen mother:
    “Take a lowly seat,
for (C)your beautiful crown
    has come down from your head.”

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18 Say to the king(A) and to the queen mother,(B)
    “Come down from your thrones,
for your glorious crowns(C)
    will fall from your heads.”

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How Lonely Sits the City

(A)How lonely sits the city
    that was full of people!
How like (B)a widow has she become,
    she who was great among the nations!
She who was (C)a princess among the provinces
    has become (D)a slave.

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[a]How deserted(A) lies the city,
    once so full of people!(B)
How like a widow(C) is she,
    who once was great(D) among the nations!
She who was queen among the provinces
    has now become a slave.(E)

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:1 This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.