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Lamentations

5 chapters, 154 verses. The 25th of 66 books, in The Major Prophets.

How it begins

1How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

2She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.

3Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest: all her persecutors overtook her between the straits.

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King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.