Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore she is [a]in derision: all that honored her, despise her, because they have seen her filthiness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.

[b]Her filthiness is in her skirts: she remembered not her last end, therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter: O Lord, behold mine affliction: for the enemy [c]is proud.

10 The enemy hath stretched out his hand upon all her pleasant things: for she hath seen the heathen enter into her Sanctuary, whom [d]thou didst command, that they should not enter into thy Church.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:8 Or, driven away.
  2. Lamentations 1:9 She is not ashamed of her sin, although it be manifest.
  3. Lamentations 1:9 Hebrew, hath magnified himself.
  4. Lamentations 1:10 God forbiddeth that the Ammonites and Moabites should enter into the Congregation of the Lord, and under them he comprehendeth all enemies, Deut. 23:3.

Jerusalem has sinned(A) greatly
    and so has become unclean.(B)
All who honored her despise her,
    for they have all seen her naked;(C)
she herself groans(D)
    and turns away.

Her filthiness clung to her skirts;
    she did not consider her future.(E)
Her fall(F) was astounding;
    there was none to comfort(G) her.
“Look, Lord, on my affliction,(H)
    for the enemy has triumphed.”

10 The enemy laid hands
    on all her treasures;(I)
she saw pagan nations
    enter her sanctuary(J)
those you had forbidden(K)
    to enter your assembly.

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