LORD

Her aduersaries are the chiefe, her enemies prosper: for the LORD hath afflicted her; for the multitude of her transgressions, her children are gone into captiuitie before the enemie.

1611 marginal noteDeut. 28.13.

1611 marginal noteIer. 52.28.

Her filthines is in her skirts, she remembreth not her last end, therfore she came downe wonderfully: shee had no comforter: O LORD, behold my affliction: for y e enemie hath magnified himselfe.

All her people sigh, they seek bread, they haue giuen their pleasant things for meate to relieue the soule: see, O LORD, & consider: for I am become vile.

1611 marginal noteOr, to make the soule to come againe.

¶ Is it nothing to you, all ye that passe by? Behold and see, if there be any sorow like vnto my sorowe, which is done vnto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me, in the day of his fierce anger.

1611 marginal noteOr, it is nothing.

1611 marginal noteHeb. passe by the way.

Zion spreadeth forth her hands, and there is none to comfort her: the LORD hath commanded concerning Iacob, that his aduersaries should bee round about him: Ierusalem is as a menstruous woman among them.

¶ The LORD is righteous, for I haue rebelled against his commandement: heare, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorow: my virgins and my yong men are gone into captiuitie.

1611 marginal noteHeb. mouth.

1611 marginal noteDan.9.7.

Behold, O LORD: for I am in distresse: my bowels are troubled: mine heart is turned within mee, for I haue grieuously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaueth, at home there is as death.

1611 marginal noteIsa.16.11. iere.48.36.

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden, hee hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemne feasts and Sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the King and the Priest.

1611 marginal noteOr, hedge.

1611 marginal notePsal.80.13. and 89.41. and isa. 5.5.

The LORD hath cast off his Altar: hee hath abhorred his Sanctuarie: he hath giuen vp into the hand of the enemie the walles of her palaces: they haue made a noise in the house of the LORD, as in the day of a solemne Feast.

1611 marginal noteHeb. shut vp.

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: he hath stretched out a line: he hath not withdrawen his hand from destroying: therefore hee made the rampart and the wall to lament: they languished together.

1611 marginal noteHebr. swallowing vp.