for

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.

The aduersarie hath spread out his hand vpon all her pleasant things: for she hath seene that the heathen entred into her Sanctuarie, whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy congregation.

1611 marginal noteOr, desireable.

1611 marginal noteDeu.23.3

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.

From aboue hath he sent fire into my bones, and it preuaileth against them: he hath spread a net for my feete, he hath turned me backe: he hath made me desolate, and faint all the day.

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.

¶ 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.

I called for my louers, but they deceiued me: my priests and mine elders gaue vp the ghost in the citie, while they sought their meat to relieue their soules

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.

Let all their wickednes come before thee: and doe vnto them, as thou hast done vnto me for all my transgressions: for my sighes are many, and my heart is faint.