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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.

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.

Arise, cry out in the night: in the beginning of the watches powre out thine heart like water before the face of the LORD: lift vp thy handes toward him, for the life of thy yong children, that faint for hunger in the top of euery streete.

¶ Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this: shal the women eat their fruit, and children of a spanne long? shall the priest and the prophet be slaine in the Sanctuary of the LORD?

1611 marginal noteOr, swadled with their hands.

For he doth not afflict willingly, nor grieue the children of men.

1611 marginal noteHeb. from his heart.

The tongue of the sucking child cleaueth to the roofe of his mouth for thirst: the young children aske bread, and no man breaketh it vnto them.

The hands of the pitifull women haue sodden their owne children, they were their meate in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

1611 marginal note2.Kings 6.29. deut. 28.57.

They tooke the young men to grinde, and the children fell vnder the wood.