Lamentations 1:1

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How Lonely Sits the City

1 ^(A)How lonely sits the city
    that was full of people!
How like ^(B)a widow has she become,
    she who was great among the nations!
She who was ^(C)a princess among the provinces
    has become ^(D)a slave.

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Lamentations 1:1 in all English translations

Lamentations 1:2

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²^(A)She weeps bitterly in the night,
    with tears on her cheeks;
^(B)among all her lovers
    she has ^(C)none to comfort her;
^(D)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
    they have become her enemies.

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Lamentations 1:9

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⁹Her uncleanness was ^(A)in her skirts;
    ^(B)she took no thought of her future;^[a]
therefore her fall is terrible;
    ^(C)she has no comforter.
“O Lord, behold my affliction,
    for the enemy has ^(D)triumphed!”