because

Iudah is gone into captiuitie, because of affliction, and because of great seruitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors ouertook her betweene the straits.

1611 marginal noteHeb. for the greatnesse of seruitude.

The wayes of Zion do mourne, because none come to the solemne feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh: her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitternesse.

Ierusalem hath grieuously sinned, therefore she is remoued: all that honoured her, despise her, because they haue seene her nakednesse: yea, shee sigheth and turneth backward.

1611 marginal noteHeb. is become a remouing or wandering.

For these things I weepe, mine eye, mine eye runneth downe with water, because the comforter that should relieue my soule is farre from me: my children are desolate, because the enemy preuailed.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bring backe.

1611 marginal noteIer.13.17 and 14.17. chap. 2.18.

Mine eyes doe faile with teares: my bowels are troubled: my liuer is powred vpon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people, because the children and the sucklings swoone in the streets of the citie.

1611 marginal noteOr, faint.

¶ It is of the LORDs mercies that wee are not consumed, because his compassions faile not.

Hee sitteth alone and keepeth silence, because hee hath borne it vpon him.

Mine eye affecteth mine heart, because of all the daughters of my city.

1611 marginal noteHeb. my soule.

1611 marginal noteOr, more then all.

We gate our bread with the perill of our liues, because of the sword of the wildernesse.

Our skinne was blacke like an ouen, because of the terrible famine.

1611 marginal noteOr, terrors or stormes.

1611 marginal notePsal.11.38