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Lamentations 2:10

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

Jod. The ancients of the daughter of Sion sit upon the ground, they have held their peace: they have sprinkled their heads with dust, they are girded with haircloth: the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground.

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And her gates shall lament and mourn: and she shall sit desolate on the ground.

In their streets they are girded with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets all shall howl and come down weeping.

And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place.

And they shall gird themselves with haircloth, and fear shall cover them, and shame shall be upon every face and baldness upon all their heads.

Jod. He shall sit solitary and hold his peace: because he hath taken it up upon himself.

Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come to the solemn feast: all her gates are broken down: her priests sigh: her virgins are in affliction and she is oppressed with bitterness.

Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! How is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes of provinces made tributary!

COME down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon: sit on the ground. There is no throne for the daughter of the Chaldeans, for thou shalt no more be called delicate and tender.

But Josue rent his garments, and fell flat on the ground before the ark of the Lord until the evening, both he and all the ancients of Israel: and they put dust upon their heads.

And they cast dust upon their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, wherein all were made rich, that had ships at sea, by reason of her prices: for in one hour she is made desolate.

In that day the fair virgins, and the young men shall faint for thirst.

Therefore the prudent shall keep silence at that time, for it is an evil time.

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

And they shall shave themselves bald for thee and shall be girded with haircloth: and they shall weep for thee with bitterness of soul, with most bitter weeping.

The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

The princes were hanged up by their hand: they did not respect the persons of the ancient.

Phe. The face of the Lord hath divided them, he will no more regard them: they respected not the persons of the priests, neither had they pity on the ancient.

He. They that were fed delicately have died in the streets; they that were brought up in scarlet have embraced the dung.

Why do we sit still? Assemble yourselves, and let us enter into the fenced city, and let us be silent there. For the Lord our God hath put us to silence and hath given us water of gall to drink: for we have sinned against the Lord.

Sit thou silent and get thee into darkness, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called the lady of kingdoms.

And Eliacim the son of Helcias, that was over the house, and Sobna the scribe, and Joahe the son of Asaph the recorder, went in to Ezechias, with their garments rent, and told him the words of Rabsaces.

And she put ashes on her head, and rent her long robe, and laid her hands upon her head, and went on crying.

And instead of a sweet smell, there shall be stench: and instead of a girdle, a cord. And instead of curled hair, baldness: and instead of a stomacher, haircloth.

And they shall mourn over thee with a loud voice and shall cry bitterly: and they shall cast up dust upon their heads and shall be sprinkled with ashes.

And the word came to the king of Ninive; and he rose up out of his throne, and cast away his robe from him, and was clothed with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.




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