The Lamentations of Jeremiah - Ferrar Fenton Bible Translation page 875
The Psalms, Solomon and Sacred Writers
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LAMENTATIONS OF ]EREMIAH.
S1·Ax~zzA 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 wmth P
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.
S:rANzA 8.
‘ Hishand has wreathed and locked my sin's yoke on my neck,
My strength fails ;~·-—the LORD gives to unbearable hands,
All my heroes the Loxw has destroyed in my breast;
He summoned a meeting to break all my warriors!
The L6RD treads in a press the young daughters of judahl
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!
S·rANzA 9.
Zion spreads out her hands, but yet none give her comfort;
And the LOR1> has arranged }acob’s tyrants around!
Amongst them jerusalem comes to be ilouted,
‘ Yet ]EHOvAH 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 i
S·1‘ANzA ro.
‘ I called to. my lovers, but they have deceived me!
M y Priests and my Rulers expired in the City.
While seeking for food to sustain them in life !
Look, Loxm, 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!
STANZA 11.
‘ They hear that I sob, and I am without comfort;
Ali my foes hear my wrong,-——-they are glad You have done it!
Bring the day You proclaimed,-··—and let them be like me !
Bring all their wrongdoing before You and wound them,
In the way that You wounded myself for my sins,
LAMENT 2.
3:1 $PPm1 in ®¤h’¤ Marry.
Srauza x.
Why wraps the Loan Zion’s daughter in cloud in His anger 2
Why throws Israel’s beauty from heaven to earth?
Nor His footstool regards in the day of His wrath ?
The LORD swallowed all ]acob’s iields without pity ;
Broke down in His fury the forts of Bath-Judah ;
And flung to earth wounded her kingdom and princes!
Cut off in nerce anger the strong horn of Israel;
His hand has withdrawn from the face of the foe;
Burnt jacob, like flame that devours around,
Bent His bow like a foe, fixed His hand as opponent,
And slew all the loved in the halls of Bath-Zion,
And poured out His fury like tire!
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