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+<book name='Lamentations' permalink='lamentations' id='25'>
+  <chapter no='1'>
+    <verse no='1'>How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how  is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and  princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her  cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her  friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and  because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth  no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn  feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her virgins are  afflicted, and she is in bitterness.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the  LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her  children are gone into captivity before the enemy.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed:  her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are  gone without strength before the pursuer.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of  her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old,  when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her:  the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed:  all that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her  nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her  last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O  LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant  things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,  whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy  congregation.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their  pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: see, O LORD, and  consider; for I am become vile.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see  if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me,  wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>From above hath he sent fire into my bones, and it  prevaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, he hath  turned me back: he hath made me desolate and faint all the day.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: they are  wreathed, and come up upon my neck: he hath made my strength to fall,  the LORD hath delivered me into their hands, from whom I am not able to  rise up.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The LORD hath trodden under foot all my mighty men in the  midst of me: he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young  men: the LORD hath trodden the virgin, the daughter of Judah, as in a  winepress.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down  with water, because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far  from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy prevailed.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort  her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob, that his adversaries  should be round about him: Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among  them.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against his  commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: my  virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>I called for my lovers, but they deceived me: my priests and  mine elders gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat  to relieve their souls.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Behold, O LORD; for I am in distress: my bowels are  troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously  rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>They have heard that I sigh: there is none to comfort me:  all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast  done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, and they shall  be like unto me.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them,  as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: for my sighs are  many, and my heart is faint.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='2'>
+    <verse no='1'>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!</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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?</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+    <verse no='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.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='3'>
+    <verse no='1'>I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his  wrath.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into  light.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against  me all the day.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my  bones.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and  travail.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>He hath set me in dark places, as they that be dead of old.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>He hath hedged me about, that I cannot get out: he hath made  my chain heavy.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Also when I cry and shout, he shutteth out my prayer.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone, he hath made my  paths crooked.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>He was unto me as a bear lying in wait, and as a lion in  secret places.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces: he  hath made me desolate.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>He hath bent his bow, and set me as a mark for the arrow.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my  reins.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>I was a derision to all my people; and their song all the  day.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>He hath filled me with bitterness, he hath made me drunken  with wormwood.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones, he hath  covered me with ashes.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: I forgat  prosperity.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the  LORD:</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Remembering mine affliction and my misery, the wormwood and  the gall.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>My soul hath them still in remembrance, and is humbled in  me.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>This I recall to my mind, therefore have I hope.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>It is of the LORD's mercies that we are not consumed,  because his compassions fail not.</verse>
+    <verse no='23'>They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.</verse>
+    <verse no='24'>The LORD is my portion, saith my soul; therefore will I hope  in him.</verse>
+    <verse no='25'>The LORD is good unto them that wait for him, to the soul  that seeketh him.</verse>
+    <verse no='26'>It is good that a man should both hope and quietly wait for  the salvation of the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='27'>It is good for a man that he bear the yoke of his youth.</verse>
+    <verse no='28'>He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne  it upon him.</verse>
+    <verse no='29'>He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be  hope.</verse>
+    <verse no='30'>He giveth his cheek to him that smiteth him: he is filled  full with reproach.</verse>
+    <verse no='31'>For the LORD will not cast off for ever:</verse>
+    <verse no='32'>But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion  according to the multitude of his mercies.</verse>
+    <verse no='33'>For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of  men.</verse>
+    <verse no='34'>To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth.</verse>
+    <verse no='35'>To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most  High,</verse>
+    <verse no='36'>To subvert a man in his cause, the LORD approveth not.</verse>
+    <verse no='37'>Who is he that saith, and it cometh to pass, when the Lord  commandeth it not?</verse>
+    <verse no='38'>Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and  good?</verse>
+    <verse no='39'>Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the  punishment of his sins?</verse>
+    <verse no='40'>Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.</verse>
+    <verse no='41'>Let us lift up our heart with our hands unto God in the  heavens.</verse>
+    <verse no='42'>We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not  pardoned.</verse>
+    <verse no='43'>Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast  slain, thou hast not pitied.</verse>
+    <verse no='44'>Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that our prayer  should not pass through.</verse>
+    <verse no='45'>Thou hast made us as the offscouring and refuse in the midst  of the people.</verse>
+    <verse no='46'>All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.</verse>
+    <verse no='47'>Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and  destruction.</verse>
+    <verse no='48'>Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the  destruction of the daughter of my people.</verse>
+    <verse no='49'>Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any  intermission.</verse>
+    <verse no='50'>Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.</verse>
+    <verse no='51'>Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters  of my city.</verse>
+    <verse no='52'>Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.</verse>
+    <verse no='53'>They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone  upon me.</verse>
+    <verse no='54'>Waters flowed over mine head; then I said, I am cut off.</verse>
+    <verse no='55'>I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.</verse>
+    <verse no='56'>Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my  breathing, at my cry.</verse>
+    <verse no='57'>Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou  saidst, Fear not.</verse>
+    <verse no='58'>O LORD, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast  redeemed my life.</verse>
+    <verse no='59'>O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.</verse>
+    <verse no='60'>Thou hast seen all their vengeance and all their  imaginations against me.</verse>
+    <verse no='61'>Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, and all their  imaginations against me;</verse>
+    <verse no='62'>The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device  against me all the day.</verse>
+    <verse no='63'>Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their  musick.</verse>
+    <verse no='64'>Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work  of their hands.</verse>
+    <verse no='65'>Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='66'>Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens  of the LORD.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='4'>
+    <verse no='1'>How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold  changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every  street.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>The precious sons of Zion, comparable to fine gold, how are  they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter!</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to  their young ones: the daughter of my people is become cruel, like the  ostriches in the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his  mouth for thirst: the young children ask bread, and no man breaketh it  unto them.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets:  they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my  people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was  overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than  milk, they were more ruddy in body than rubies, their polishing was of  sapphire:</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in  the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is  become like a stick.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>They that be slain with the sword are better than they that  be slain with hunger: for these pine away, stricken through for want of  the fruits of the field.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own  children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my  people.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his  fierce anger, and hath kindled a fire in Zion, and it hath devoured the  foundations thereof.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>The kings of the earth, and all the inhabitants of the  world, would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should  have entered into the gates of Jerusalem.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her  priests, that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>They have wandered as blind men in the streets, they have  polluted themselves with blood, so that men could not touch their  garments.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>They cried unto them, Depart ye; it is unclean; depart,  depart, touch not: when they fled away and wandered, they said among  the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The anger of the LORD hath divided them; he will no more  regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, they  favoured not the elders.</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our  watching we have watched for a nation that could not save us.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our  end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven:  they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the  wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>The breath of our nostrils, the anointed of the LORD, was  taken in their pits, of whom we said, Under his shadow we shall live  among the heathen.</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Rejoice and be glad, O daughter of Edom, that dwellest in  the land of Uz; the cup also shall pass through unto thee: thou shalt  be drunken, and shalt make thyself naked.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter  of Zion; he will no more carry thee away into captivity: he will visit  thine iniquity, O daughter of Edom; he will discover thy sins.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+  <chapter no='5'>
+    <verse no='1'>Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold  our reproach.</verse>
+    <verse no='2'>Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to  aliens.</verse>
+    <verse no='3'>We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers are as widows.</verse>
+    <verse no='4'>We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto  us.</verse>
+    <verse no='5'>Our necks are under persecution: we labour, and have no  rest.</verse>
+    <verse no='6'>We have given the hand to the Egyptians, and to the  Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.</verse>
+    <verse no='7'>Our fathers have sinned, and are not; and we have borne  their iniquities.</verse>
+    <verse no='8'>Servants have ruled over us: there is none that doth deliver  us out of their hand.</verse>
+    <verse no='9'>We gat our bread with the peril of our lives because of the  sword of the wilderness.</verse>
+    <verse no='10'>Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible  famine.</verse>
+    <verse no='11'>They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities  of Judah.</verse>
+    <verse no='12'>Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders  were not honoured.</verse>
+    <verse no='13'>They took the young men to grind, and the children fell  under the wood.</verse>
+    <verse no='14'>The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from  their musick.</verse>
+    <verse no='15'>The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into  mourning.</verse>
+    <verse no='16'>The crown is fallen from our head: woe unto us, that we have  sinned!</verse>
+    <verse no='17'>For this our heart is faint; for these things our eyes are  dim.</verse>
+    <verse no='18'>Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the  foxes walk upon it.</verse>
+    <verse no='19'>Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation  to generation.</verse>
+    <verse no='20'>Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, and forsake us so  long time?</verse>
+    <verse no='21'>Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned;  renew our days as of old.</verse>
+    <verse no='22'>But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth  against us.</verse>
+  </chapter>
+</book>