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Lamentations

Chapter 2

KJV · Textus Receptus

How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!
2 The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.
3 He hath cut off in his fierce anger all the horn of Israel: he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy, and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire, which devoureth round about.
4 He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an adversary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he poured out his fury like fire.
5 The Lord was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.
6 And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
7 The Lord hath cast off his altar, he hath abhorred his sanctuary, he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; they have made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemn feast.
8 The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished together.
9 Her gates are sunk into the ground; he hath destroyed and broken her bars: her king and her princes are among the Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground, and keep silence: they have cast up dust upon their heads; they have girded themselves with sackcloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.
11 Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
12 They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.
13 What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? what shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? for thy breach is great like the sea: who can heal thee?
14 Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.
15 All that pass by clap their hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, saying, Is this the city that men call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?
16 All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: they hiss and gnash the teeth: they say, We have swallowed her up: certainly this is the day that we looked for; we have found, we have seen it.
17 The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries.
18 Their heart cried unto the Lord, O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night: give thyself no rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.
19 Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children, that faint for hunger in the top of every street.
20 Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?
21 The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; thou hast slain them in the day of thine anger; thou hast killed, and not pitied.
22 Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

Asante Twi

1Hwɛ sɛdeɛ Awurade de omununkum akata Sion babaa so n'abufuo mu, na wato Israel ahoɔfɛ afiri ɔsoro abɛhwe asase so, na wankae ne nan ntiasoɔ n'abufuo da no mu!Under pastoral review
2Awurade amene Yakob atenaeɛ nyinaa, na wanhunu mmɔbɔ: wadwiri Yuda babaa abandenden agu n'abufuhyeɛ mu; wama abrɛ ase akɔ fam: wagu ahennie ne ne mmapɔmma ho fi.Under pastoral review
3Watwa Israel abɛn nyinaa ato n'abufuhyeɛ mu: wasane ne nsa nifa afiri ɔtamfoɔ anim, na ɔdɛree tiaa Yakob sɛ ogyaframa, deɛ ɛhye ne ho nyinaa.Under pastoral review
4Wakuntun ne tadua sɛ ɔtamfoɔ: ɔde ne nsa nifa gyinaeɛ sɛ ɔtamfoɔ, na ɔkumm deɛ ɛyɛ ani anisɔ nyinaa wɔ Sion babaa ntamadan mu: wahwie n'abufuhyeɛ agu sɛ ogya.Under pastoral review
5Awurade ayɛ sɛ ɔtamfoɔ: wamene Israel, wamene n'ahemfie nyinaa: wasɛe n'abandenden, na wama awerɛhoɔ ne agyaadwotwa adɔɔso wɔ Yuda babaa mu.Under pastoral review
6Na wafa ne ntamadan afiri hɔ basabasa, te sɛ deɛ ɛyɛ turo: wasɛe ne nhyiamu mmeaeɛ: AWURADE ama wɔn werɛ afiri afahyɛ kɛseɛ ne homeda wɔ Sion, na wabu ɔhene ne ɔsɔfoɔ animtiaa n'abufuo abufuhyeɛ mu.Under pastoral review
7Awurade apo n'afɔremuka, wakyiri ne kronkronbea, ɔde n'ahemfie afasuo ahyɛ ɔtamfoɔ nsa; wɔateam wɔ AWURADE fie sɛ afahyɛ kɛseɛ da mu.Under pastoral review
8AWURADE abɔ ne tirim sɛ ɔbɛsɛe Sion babaa ɔfasuo: watene ahoma mu, wansane ne nsa amfiri ɔsɛeɛ ho: ɛno enti wama banbɔeɛ ne ɔfasuo adi awerɛhoɔ; wɔbɔɔ mu hwee ase.Under pastoral review
9N'apono amem afam; wasɛe na wabubu n'adaban: ne hene ne ne mmapɔmma wɔ amanamanmufoɔ mu: mmara nni hɔ bio; n'adiyifoɔ nso nnya anisoadehunu mfiri AWURADE hɔ.Under pastoral review
10Sion babaa mpanyimfoɔ tete fam, na wɔyɛ komm: wɔatu mfuturo agu wɔn tiri so; wɔde ayitoma abɔ wɔn ho: Yerusalem mmaabunu asisi wɔn tiri ase kɔ fam.Under pastoral review
11M'ani ayɛ basaa nisuo enti, me nsono ho yeraw me, me berɛboɔ ahwie agu asase so, me nkurɔfoɔ babaa sɛeɛ enti; ɛfiri sɛ mmɔfra ne mmɔfra a wɔnum nufu totɔ bearɛ wɔ kuropɔn no mmɔntene so.Under pastoral review
12Wɔka kyerɛ wɔn maamenom sɛ, Aburoo ne nsã wɔ he? ɛberɛ a wɔtotɔ bearɛ sɛ apirafoɔ wɔ kuropɔn no mmɔntene so, ɛberɛ a wɔn kra hwie guu wɔn maamenom kokom.Under pastoral review
13Ɛdeɛn na mede bɛdi adanseɛ ama wo? ɛdeɛn na mede bɛtoto wo ho, Ao Yerusalem babaa? ɛdeɛn na mede bɛsusu wo, sɛ mɛkyekye wo werɛ, Ao Sion babaa ɔbaabunu? ɛfiri sɛ w'apirakuro so sɛ ɛpo: hwan na ɔbɛtumi asa wo yadeɛ?Under pastoral review
14W'adiyifoɔ ahunu nneɛma hunu ne nkwaseasɛm ama wo: na wɔanna w'amumuyɛ adi, sɛ wɔbɛdane wo nnommum afiri hɔ; na mmom wɔahunu adesoa atorɔ ne atuo nnyinasoɔ ama wo.Under pastoral review
15Wɔn a wɔtwam nyinaa bɔ wɔn nsam gu wo so; wɔbɔ wɔn ano na wɔwoso wɔn ti gu Yerusalem babaa so, sɛ, Yei ne kuropɔn a nnipa frɛ no Ahoɔfɛ a ɛyɛ pɛ, Asase nyinaa anigyeɛ no anaa?Under pastoral review
16W'atamfoɔ nyinaa abue wɔn ano atia wo: wɔbɔ wɔn ano na wɔtwɛre wɔn se: wɔka sɛ, Yɛamene no: ampa ara yei ne da a na yɛretwɛn no; yɛanya, yɛahunu.Under pastoral review
17AWURADE ayɛ deɛ ɔbɔɔ ne tirim: wama n'asɛm a ɔhyɛeɛ tete nna mu no aba mu: wadwiri agu, na wanhunu mmɔbɔ: na wama wo tamfoɔ ani agye wo ho, wama w'atamfoɔ abɛn so.Under pastoral review
18Wɔn akoma su frɛɛ Awurade sɛ, Ao Sion babaa ɔfasuo, ma nisuo ntene sɛ asubɔnten awia ne anadwo: mma wo ho ahomegyeɛ; mma w'aniwa kesua nnyae.Under pastoral review
19Sɔre, teaam anadwo: ɔwɛn mmerɛ ahyɛaseɛ, hwie w'akoma gu sɛ nsuo wɔ Awurade anim: ma wo nsa so kyerɛ no wo mmɔfra nkwa enti, wɔn a ɔkɔm ama wɔatotɔ bearɛ wɔ mmɔntene nyinaa atifi.Under pastoral review
20Hwɛ, Ao AWURADE, na dwene deɛ woayɛ no saa yi ho. Mmaa nnwe wɔn aba, mma a wɔn tenten yɛ nsateakwaa anaa? wɔnkum ɔsɔfoɔ ne odiyifoɔ wɔ Awurade kronkronbea mu anaa?Under pastoral review
21Mmɔfra ne mpanyimfoɔ deda fam wɔ mmɔntene so: me mmaabunu ne me mmeranteɛ atotɔ akofena ano; woakum wɔn w'abufuo da no mu; woakum, na woanhunu mmɔbɔ.Under pastoral review
22Woafrɛ m'ahunahuna a atwa me ho ahyia sɛ afahyɛ da mu, ɛno enti AWURADE abufuo da no mu obiara andwane na obiara anka: wɔn a mahwɛ wɔn na matete wɔn no, me tamfoɔ asɛe wɔn.Under pastoral review

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