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\c 1
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\p
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\q1
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\v 1 Jerusalem was once full of people,
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\q2 but now it is completely deserted.
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\q1 Once it was a powerful nation,
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\q2 but now it is alone, like a widow.
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\q1 Once everyone in the world honored it like a king's daughter,
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\q2 but now it is like a slave.
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\q1
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\v 2 We in the city weep bitterly all during the nights,
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\q2 with tears flowing down our cheeks.
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\q1 We did not trust Yahweh to help us, and the people groups that we did trust failed to help us;
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\q2 none of those people comfort us now.
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\q1 All the people groups that were friends with us have betrayed us;
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\q2 they are all now our enemies.
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\q1
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\v 3 All of us, the people of Judah have become poor and have suffered greatly;
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\q2 most of our people have gone to other lands as slaves.
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\q1 They now live in other lands
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\q2 and have no peace.
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\q1 Our enemies captured us all;
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\q2 there was no way for us to escape.
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\q1
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\v 4 The roads to Mount Zion are empty
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\q2 because no one comes here to celebrate the sacred festivals any longer.
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\q1 No elders or leaders sit under the city gates to talk any more,
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\q2 and Jerusalem's priests groan in sorrow.
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\q1 The young women left in Jerusalem cry
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\q2 because they are suffering greatly.
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\b
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\q1
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\v 5 Our enemies are now masters of our city,
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\q2 and they prosper.
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\q1 Yahweh has punished us, the people of Jerusalem,
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\q2 because of all the sins that we have committed.
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\q1 Our enemies have taken all our children
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\q2 and made them go to other countries.
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\q1
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\v 6 Jerusalem was a beautiful city,
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\q2 but it is not beautiful now.
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\q1 The leaders of our city are like deer that are starving
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\q2 because they can find no grass to eat.
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\q1 They are very weak
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\q2 and cannot run from our enemies.
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\v 7 We, the people of Jerusalem, are sad and have no more homes to live in;
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\q2 we think about all the splendid things that once filled our city.
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\q1 But now our enemies have captured the city,
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\q2 and there is no one to help us.
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\q1 Our enemies destroyed our city
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\q2 and laughed while they were doing it.
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\v 8 We, the people of Jerusalem, have sinned very much;
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\q2 our city has become like a bloody rag between a woman's legs.
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\q1 Everyone who previously honored our city now despise it;
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\q2 they are like people who strip a woman bare and then mock her.
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\q1 Now we groan in the city;
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\q2 we are like a woman without clothes who tries to cover herself with her hands.
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\v 9 It is as if our city has become filthy because we have sinned so greatly;
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\q2 we did not think about how God would punish us.
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\q1 We did not imagine how we would suffer;
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\q2 there is no one to comfort us.
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\q1 We all call out to God, "Yahweh, look at how we are suffering
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\q2 because our enemies have defeated us!
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\v 10 Our enemies have taken away all our treasures,
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\q2 all the valuable things that we owned.
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\q1 We have seen soldiers from other nations, men who do not worship you, Yahweh, enter our sacred temple,
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\q2 where you had said no foreigner must go."
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\b
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\v 11 We groan in the city
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\q2 while we search for food;
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\q1 we have given our most valuable things
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\q2 to get food to eat to gain some strength.
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\q1 We say, "Yahweh, look at us;
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\q2 see how our enemies despise us!"
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\v 12 You people who pass by,
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\q2 you do not seem to care at all about what has happened to us.
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\q1 Look around and see
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\q2 that there are no other people who are suffering as we are.
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\q1 Yahweh has caused us to suffer
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\q2 because he was extremely angry with us.
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\v 13 It is as though he sent a fire from heaven
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\q2 that burned in our bones;
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\q1 it is as though he has placed a trap to entangle our feet,
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\q2 and has prevented us from walking any further.
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\q1 He has abandoned us;
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\q2 we are weak and alone every day, all during the day.
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\b
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\v 14 He turned the sins that we have committed into a heavy load for us to carry;
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\q2 it is as though he tied them around our necks.
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\q1 Previously we were strong,
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\q2 but he has caused us to become weak.
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\q1 He has allowed our enemies to capture us,
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\q2 and we were not able to do anything to resist them.
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\v 15 The Lord looked at our mighty soldiers,
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\q2 laughed at them, and threw them away.
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\q1 He summoned a great army
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\q2 to come and crush our strong young soldiers.
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\q1 It is as though the Lord has trampled on us people of Judah
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\q2 as people trample on grapes in a pit to make juice.
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\v 16 We weep because of all those things;
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\q2 our eyes are filled with tears.
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\q1 There is no one to comfort us;
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\q2 those who could encourage us are far away.
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\q1 Our enemies have conquered us,
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\q2 so our children have nothing good to hope for.
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\b
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\v 17 We people of Jerusalem reach out our hands to get help,
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\q2 but there is no one to comfort us.
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\q1 Yahweh has decided concerning us descendants of Jacob
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\q2 that the people in nearby nations will become our enemies;
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\q1 so they consider that
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\q2 Jerusalem has become disgusting to them.
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\b
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\v 18 But what Yahweh has done to us is fair,
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\q2 because we have refused to obey what he told us to do.
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\q1 You people everywhere, listen to us;
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\q2 look and see that we are suffering greatly.
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\q1 We had many sons and daughters,
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\q2 but our enemies took them all and made them go to far off lands.
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\b
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\v 19 We pleaded with our allies, in whom we trusted, to help us,
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\q2 but they all refused, like men refuse to help a prostitute they slept with.
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\q1 Our priests and our leaders
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\q2 have died from hunger in the city
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\q1 while they were searching for food
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\q2 to eat to remain alive.
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\b
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\v 20 Yahweh, see that we are suffering very much.
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\q2 It is as though our inner organs are on fire.
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\q1 We are sad in our inner beings
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\q2 because we have rebelled against you.
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\q1 Our enemies kill people in the streets with their swords;
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\q2 at home it is like sheol, the world of the dead.
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\v 21 People heard us while we groaned,
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\q2 but no one came to comfort us.
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\q1 All our enemies know what happened to us;
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\q2 they were all happy to hear about it.
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\q1 Please do soon what you have promised,
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\q2 when our enemies will suffer like we have suffered!
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\b
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\v 22 Yahweh, consent to look at all the evil deeds
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\q2 that they have committed.
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\q1 Punish them as you have punished us
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\q2 for all the sins that we committed.
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\q1 We say this to you because we suffer and groan very much,
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\q2 and we faint in our inner beings.
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