28 He sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because he hath borne itupon him.
29 He putteth his mouth in the dust; if so be there may be hope.
30 He giveth hischeek to him that smiteth him: he is filled full with reproach.
31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever:
32 But though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his
mercies.
33 For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.
34 To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
35 To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
36 To subvert a man in his cause, the Lord approveth not.
37 Who ishe thatsaith, and it cometh to pass, whenthe Lord commandeth itnot?
38 Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good?
39 Wherefore doth a living man complain, a man for the punishment of his sins?
40 Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.
41 Let us lift up our heart with ourhands unto God in the heavens.
42 We have transgressed and have rebelled: thou hast not pardoned.
43 Thou hast covered with anger, and persecuted us: thou hast slain, thou hast not pitied.
44 Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud, that ourprayer should not pass through.
45 Thou hast made us asthe offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people.
46 All our enemies have opened their mouths against us.
47 Fear and a snare is come upon us, desolation and destruction.
48 Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my
people.
49 Mine eye trickleth down, and ceaseth not, without any intermission,
50 Till the LORD look down, and behold from heaven.
51 Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city.
52 Mine enemies chased me sore, like a bird, without cause.
53 They have cut off my life in the dungeon, and cast a stone upon me.
54 Waters flowed over mine head; thenI said, I am cut off.
55 I called upon thy name, O LORD, out of the low dungeon.
56 Thou hast heard my voice: hide not thine ear at my breathing, at my cry.
57 Thou drewest near in the day thatI called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not.
58 O Lord, thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; thou hast redeemed my life.
59 O LORD, thou hast seen my wrong: judge thou my cause.
60 Thou hast seen all their vengeance andall their imaginations against me.
61 Thou hast heard their reproach, O LORD, andall their imaginations against me;
62 The lips of those that rose up against me, and their device against me all the day.
63 Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I amtheir musick.
64 Render unto them a recompence, O LORD, according to the work of their hands.
65 Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them.
66 Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD.
1 How is the gold become dim! howis the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary
are poured out in the top of every street.
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!
3 Even the sea monsters draw out the breast, they give suck to their young ones: the daughter
of my people is becomecruel, like the ostriches in the wilderness.
4 The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: the young
children ask bread, andno man breaketh itunto them.

5 They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: they that were brought up in scarlet
embrace dunghills.
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.
7 Her Nazarites were purer than snow, they were whiter than milk, they were more ruddy in
body than rubies, their polishing wasof sapphire:
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.
9 They that beslain with the sword are better than they that beslain with hunger: for these
pine away, stricken through for want ofthe fruits of the field.
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.
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.
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.
13 For the sins of her prophets, andthe iniquities of her priests, that have shed the blood of
the just in the midst of her,
14 They have wandered asblind menin the streets, they have polluted themselves with blood,
so that men could not touch their garments.
15 They cried unto them, Depart ye; it isunclean; depart, depart, touch not: when they fled
away and wandered, they said among the heathen, They shall no more sojourn there.
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.
17 As for us, our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: in our watching we have watched for a
nation thatcould not save us.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
1 Remember, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.
2 Our inheritance is turned to strangers, our houses to aliens.
3 We are orphans and fatherless, our mothers areas widows.
4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us.
5 Our necks areunder persecution: we labour, andhave no rest.
6 We have given the hand tothe Egyptians, and tothe Assyrians, to be satisfied with bread.
7 Our fathers have sinned, and arenot; and we have borne their iniquities.
8 Servants have ruled over us: there isnone that doth deliver usout of their hand.
9 We gat our bread with the peril ofour lives because of the sword of the wilderness.
10 Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.
11 They ravished the women in Zion, andthe maids in the cities of Judah.

12 Princes are hanged up by their hand: the faces of elders were not honoured.
13 They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.
14 The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick.
15 The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
16 The crown is fallen fromour head: woe unto us, that we have sinned!
17 For this our heart is faint; for these thingsour eyes are dim.
18 Because of the mountain of Zion, which is desolate, the foxes walk upon it.
19 Thou, O LORD, remainest for ever; thy throne from generation to generation.
20 Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever, andforsake us so long time?
21 Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old.
22 But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.