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(A)Judah has gone into exile because of affliction
    and hard servitude;
(B)she dwells now among the nations,
    (C)but finds no resting-place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
    in the midst of her distress.[a]
The roads to Zion mourn,
    for none come to (D)the festival;
(E)all her gates are desolate;
    her priests (F)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[b]
    and she herself suffers bitterly.
(G)Her foes have become the head;
    her (H)enemies prosper,
because (I)the Lord has afflicted her
    (J)for the multitude of her transgressions;
(K)her children have gone away,
    captives before the foe.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 Or in the narrow passes
  2. Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away