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Lamentations 5:16

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The crown is fallen from our head. Woe to us, because we have sinned!

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Say to the king and to the queen: Humble yourselves, sit down: for the crown of your glory is come down from your head.

He hath stripped me of my glory, and hath taken the crown from my head.

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!

Behold, I come quickly: hold fast that which thou hast, that no man take thy crown.

Thus saith the Lord God: Remove the diadem, take off the crown. Is it not this that hath exalted the low one, and brought down him that was high?

Mem. For the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her.

Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! How hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger!

Sade. The Lord is just, for I have provoked his mouth to wrath: hear, I pray you, all ye people, and see my sorrow: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable: all that honoured her have despised her, because they have seen her shame: but she sighed and turned backward.

Thy ways and thy devices have brought these things upon thee: this is thy wickedness, because it is bitter, because it hath touched thy heart.

Thy own wickedness shall reprove thee, and thy apostasy shall rebuke thee. Know thou, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing for thee, to have left the Lord thy God, and that my fear is not with thee, saith the Lord, the God of hosts.

Hath not this been done to thee, because thou hast forsaken the Lord thy God, at that time when he led thee by the way?

Justice exalteth a nation: but sin maketh nations miserable.

Fear none of those things which thou shalt suffer. Behold, the devil will cast some of you into prison that you may be tried: and you shall have tribulation ten days. Be thou faithful until death: and I will give thee the crown of life.

For thou shalt not always have power: but a crown shall be given to generation and generation.

And they gathered together to Masphath. And they drew water, and poured it out before the Lord; and they fasted on that day, and they said there: We have sinned against the Lord. And Samuel judged the children of Israel in Masphath.

For Jerusalem is ruined, and Juda is fallen: because their tongue and their devices are against the Lord, to provoke the eyes of his majesty.

And they came in and possessed it: but they obeyed not thy voice and they walked not in thy law. And they did not any of those things that thou didst command them to do: and all these evils are come upon them.

Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth and at home there is death alike.

And I therefore began to strike thee with desolation for thy sins.




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