with

Shee weepeth sore in the night, and her teares are on her cheekes: among all her louers she hath none to comfort her, all her friends haue dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

1611 marginal noteIer.13.17.

1611 marginal noteIob.7.3.

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.

¶ How hath the LORD couered the daughter of Zion with a cloud, in his anger, and cast downe from heauen vnto the earth the beautie of Israel, and remembred not his footstoole in the day of his anger?

He hath bent his bow like an enemy: he stood with his right hand as an aduersary, and slew all that were pleasant to the eye, in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: he powred out his furie like fire.

1611 marginal noteHeb. all the desireable of the eye.

The Elders of the daughter of Zion sit vpon the ground and keepe silence: they haue cast vp dust vpon their heads: they haue girded themselues with sackcloth: the virgins of Ierusalem hang downe their heades to the ground.

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.

He hath builded against me, and compassed me with gall and trauel.

Hee hath inclosed my wayes with hewen stone: he hath made my pathes crooked.

Hee hath filled me with bitternesse, hee hath made me drunken with wormewood.

1611 marginal noteHeb. bitternesses.

He hath also broken my teeth with grauell stones, hee hath couered me with ashes.

1611 marginal noteOr, rolled me in the ashes.