1 How doth the city Jerusalem (Yerushalayim) 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! 2 She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. Among all her …
Category Archives: Lamentations (Eykah)
Lamentations 2
1 How hath the Lord (Adonai) covered the daughter of Zion (Tsiyon) with a cloud in His anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Yisrael, and remembered not His footstool in the day of His anger! 2 The Lord (Adonai) hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob (Yaaqov), and …
Lamentations 3
1 I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of His wrath. 2 He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. 3 Surely against me is He turned; he turneth His hand against me all the day. 4 My flesh and my skin hath He made old; …
Lamentations 4
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. 2 The precious sons of Zion (Tsiyon), comparable to fine gold, how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers, the work of the hands of the potter! 3 …
Lamentations 5
1 Remember, O יהוה, 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 are as widows. 4 We have drunken our water for money; our wood is sold unto us. 5 Our necks are under …