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\c 1
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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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\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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\v 3 The people of Judah have become poor
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\q2 and have suffered greatly.
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\q1 Almost all of our people
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\q2 were forced to leave our land.
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\q1 We now live in another country
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\q2 and we have no peace.
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\q1 When the people Judah were unable to defend ourselves,
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\q2 that was when our enemies captured us.
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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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\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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\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 People who do not worship you, Yahweh, are going into our sacred temple,
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\q2 where you had said no foreigner must go into the place where your people worship you.
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\v 11 All the people in the city cry out with pain
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\q2 while they search for food.
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\q1 They have given their most valuable things
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\q2 to get food to eat to restore their strength.
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\q1 Yahweh, look at me,
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\q2 no one values my life.
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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 me.
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\q1 Look around and see
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\q2 that there are no other people who are suffering as I do.
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\q1 Yahweh has caused me to suffer
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\q2 because he was punished me on the day he was angry with us, his people.
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\v 13 It is as though he sent a fire from heaven
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\q2 that burned in my bones;
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\q1 it is as though he has placed a trap to entangle my feet,
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\q2 and has prevented me from walking turning back to our home.
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\q1 He has abandoned me;
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\q2 I am weak and alone every day, all during the day.
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\v 14 He turned the sins that I have committed into a heavy load for me to carry;
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\q2 it is as though he tied them around my neck.
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\q1 Previously we were strong,
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\q2 but he has caused me to become weak.
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\q1 He has allowed my enemies to capture me,
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\q2 and I was not able to do anything to resist them.
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\v 15 The Lord looked at my mighty soldiers, who kept me safe.
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\q1 He summoned a great army
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\q2 to come and crush me to defeat my strong young soldiers.
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\q1 The Lord has trampled on the 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 I weep because of all these things.
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\q2 My eyes are filled with tears.
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\q1 There is no one to comfort me.
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\q2 The one who comforts me is far away from me.
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\q1 My children have no hope
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\q2 because the enemy has taken us all captive.
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\v 17 The people who lived in Zion (the city of Jerusalem)
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\q2 have no one to give them comfort.
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\q1 Yahweh has give the order that the people in nearby nations
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\q2 will become the enemies of the descendants of our father Jacob (who are also called the Israelites).
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\q2 Jerusalem has become disgusting to them.
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\v 18 But what Yahweh has done to me is fair,
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\q2 for I had refused to obey what he told me to do.
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\q1 You people everywhere, listen to me!
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\q2 Look and see that that I am suffering greatly.
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\q1 My young daughters and brave sons
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\q2 have been taken away to far off lands.
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\v 19 I pleaded with our allies, in whom we trusted, to help,
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\q2 but they all refused,
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\q2 they told lies and did not keep their promises.
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\q1 My priests and my leaders
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\q2 died with the walls of the city
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\q1 while they searched for food to eat.
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\v 20 Yahweh, see that I am suffering very much!
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\q2 Inside of my body I am in great distress.
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\q1 I am sad in the center of my being,
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\q2 because I have rebelled against you
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\q2 and have caused you great sadness!
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\q1 Our enemies kill people in the streets with their swords;
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\q2 and that makes our homes the places where the dead are kept.
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\v 21 Here my groaning!
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\q2 but no one came to comfort me.
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\q1 All our enemies know what happened to me;
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\q2 they were all happy to hear
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\q2 about what Yahweh has done to his people.
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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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\v 22 Yahweh, let those evils deeds come near to you
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\q2 so you may see them all!
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\q1 Punish them as you have punished me
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\q2 for all my sins!
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\q1 I suffer and groan very much,
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\q2 and I faint within my inner self.
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