11 All her people sigh and seek their bread: they have given their pleasant things for meat to refresh the soul: see, O Lord, and consider: for I am become vile.

12 Have ye no regard, all ye that pass by this way? behold and see, if there be any [a]sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is done unto me wherewith the Lord hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce wrath.

13 From above hath [b]he sent fire into my bones, which prevail against them: he hath spread a net for my feet, and turned me back: he hath made me desolate, and daily in heaviness.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:12 Thus Jerusalem lamenteth moving others to pity her and to learn by her example.
  2. Lamentations 1:13 This declareth that we should acknowledge God to be the author of all our afflictions to the intent that we might seek unto him for remedy.

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