Category Archives: Lamentations

1 ALEPH. O how a city once filled with people now sits alone! The Governess of the Gentiles has become like a widow. The Prince of the provinces has been placed under tribute. 2 BETH. Weeping, she has wept through the night, and her tears are on her cheeks. There is no one to be […]

1 ALEPH. O how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with gloom in his fury! O how he has thrown down from heaven to earth the famous one of Israel, and he has not remembered his footstool in the day of his fury. 2 BETH. The Lord has cast down, and he has […]

1 ALEPH. I am a man watching my own poverty by the rod of his indignation. 2 ALEPH. He has driven me and led me into darkness, and not into light. 3 ALEPH. Against me only, he has turned and turned again his hand, all day long. 4 BETH. My skin and my flesh, he […]

1 ALEPH. O how the gold has become dulled, the finest color has been altered, the stones of the sanctuary have been scattered at the head of every street. 2 BETH. The famous sons of Zion, and those clothed with the foremost gold: how they have become like earthen vessels, the work of the hands […]

1 Remember, O Lord, what has befallen us. Consider and look kindly upon our disgrace. 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to foreigners; our houses to outsiders. 3 We have become orphans without a father; our mothers are like widows. 4 We paid for our drinking water. We acquired our wood for a price. […]