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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF LAM 1:1 LAMENT 1.
Zion's Ruin.
STANZA 1.
Why sits the populous City in solitude?
The Great among Nations become like a widow?
The Princess of Countries reduced to pay tribute,—
RF LAM 1:2 And weeps in the night, with the tears on her cheeks?—
There is none to give comfort, of all that have loved her,—
Her friends all deceived her, they were to her traitors!
RF LAM 1:3 STANZA 2.
Judah is captive to grief and hard slavery;
She dwells with the heathen and cannot find rest;
All her lovers look at her enclosed by besiegers.
RF LAM 1:4 Zion's streets mourn, for none come up to worship;
All her gateways are empty, her Priesthood is sobbing;
Her maids are afflicted, herself in distress!
RF LAM 1:5 STANZA 3.
Her foes are supreme and her enemies prosper!—
For the LORD has distressed her for manifold sins.
Her children march captives before their tormentors!
RF LAM 1:6 All beauty has gone from the daughter of Zion.
Her princes are wild deer who cannot find pasture,—
They run without strength from the face of the hunter.
RF LAM 1:7 STANZA 4.
Jerusalem thinks in her mis'ry, and wandering,
Of all pleasures that were in the preceding times,
Ere her weak people fell to the hand of a rival,—
And tormentors look on her, and laugh at her capture.
RF LAM 1:8 STANZA 5.
Jerusalem sinned,—sinned,—so goes into exile:
All who honoured, despise her, from seeing her stripped,
Therefore she is sobbing, and turns herself lingering,
RF LAM 1:9 She defiled all her garments, nor thought not of results,
And falls in her sorrows with no one to cheer her.
"Look, LORD, on my griefs, for my enemy prospers; "—
RF LAM 1:10 STANZA 6.
How her tyrant has laid hands on all her delights!
She sees that the Heathen have entered her Temple,—
Tho' you ordered them never to enter Your court!
RF LAM 1:11 All her people are moaning and begging their bread;
Give their treasures for food to sustain them in life!
Look, O LORD, and assist, for I have become faint."
RF LAM 1:12 STANZA 7.
"Is it nothing to you who pass by on the road?—
Look and see!—Is there sorrow that equals my anguish?
Whose wound the LORD galled in the day of His wrath?
RF LAM 1:13 From above He sent fire on my bones and reduced them;
Spread a net for my feet and threw down on my back;
I was given to wasting and sickness all day.
RF LAM 1:14 STANZA 8.
"His hand has wreathed and locked my sin's yoke on my neck,
My strength fails;—the LORD gives to unbearable hands,—
RF LAM 1:15 All my heroes the LORD has destroyed in my breast;
He summoned a meeting to break all my warriors!
The LORD treads in a press the young daughters of Judah!—
RF LAM 1:16 For these I am weeping, my eyes flow with water,—
For the comfort is gone that refreshened my life,—
For my children were lost, when the enemy won!"
RF LAM 1:17 STANZA 9.
Zion spreads out her hands, but yet none give her comfort;
And the LORD has arranged Jacob's tyrants around!
Amongst them Jerusalem comes to be flouted,—
RF LAM 1:18 "Yet JEHOVAH is right! I rejected His orders!—
Hear, now, all the Nations, and look on my woes,—
For my girls and my boys are all taken as slaves!
RF LAM 1:19 STANZA 10.
"I called to my lovers, but they have deceived me!—
My Priests and my Rulers expired in the City.
While seeking for food to sustain them in life!
RF LAM 1:20 Look, LORD, for I grieve, and my bowels are tortured,
My heart turns in my breast, for it mourns my rebellion
In the street the Sword slaughters;—at home it is Death!
RF LAM 1:21 STANZA 11.
"They hear that I sob, and I am without comfort;—
All my foes hear my wrong,—they are glad You have done it!
Bring the day You proclaimed,—and let them be like me!
RF LAM 1:22 Bring all their wrong-doing before You and wound them,
In the way that You wounded myself for my sins,—
For my sobbings are great, and my heart is depressed."




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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