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The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Chapter links:   1 ,  2 ,  3 ,  4 ,  5 

Lament Chapter 1 Ordered by Punctuation

Links to sentences in this chapter: 
C1-S1 (Verse 1-2), C1-S2 (Verse 3), C1-S3 (Verse 4), C1-S4 (Verse 5), C1-S5 (Verse 6), C1-S6 (Verse 7), C1-S7 (Verse 8), C1-S8 (Verse 9), C1-S9 (Verse 9), C1-S10 (Verse 10), C1-S11 (Verse 11), C1-S12 (Verse 12), C1-S13 (Verse 12), C1-S14 (Verse 13), C1-S15 (Verse 14), C1-S16 (Verse 15), C1-S17 (Verse 16), C1-S18 (Verse 17), C1-S19 (Verse 18), C1-S20 (Verse 19), C1-S21 (Verse 20), C1-S22 (Verse 21), C1-S23 (Verse 22). 
C1-S1 (Verse 1-2) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. How doth the city sit solitary,
    2.  that was  full of people  how  is she become as a widow she  that was  great among the nations,
    3.  and  princess among the provinces,
    4.  how  is she become tributary She weepeth sore in the night,
    5. and her tears  are  on her cheeks: 
  2. among all her lovers she hath none to comfort  her : 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. all her friends have dealt treacherously with her,
    2. they are become her enemies. 
C1-S2 (Verse 3) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction,
    2. and because of great servitude: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. she dwelleth among the heathen,
    2. she findeth no rest: 
  3. all her persecutors overtook her between the straits. 
C1-S3 (Verse 4) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. The ways of Zion do mourn,
    2. because none come to the solemn feasts: 
  2. all her gates are desolate: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. her priests sigh,
    2. her virgins are afflicted,
    3. and she  is  in bitterness. 
C1-S4 (Verse 5) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. Her adversaries are the chief,
      2. her enemies prosper; 
    2. for the LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: 
  2. her children are gone into captivity before the enemy. 
C1-S5 (Verse 6) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. her princes are become like harts  that  find no pasture,
    2. and they are gone without strength before the pursuer. 
C1-S6 (Verse 7) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old,
    2. when her people fell into the hand of the enemy,
    3. and none did help her: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. the adversaries saw her,
    2.  and  did mock at her sabbaths. 
C1-S7 (Verse 8) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; 
    2. therefore she is removed: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. all that honoured her despise her,
    2. because they have seen her nakedness: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. yea,
    2. she sigheth,
    3. and turneth backward. 
C1-S8 (Verse 9) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Her filthiness  is  in her skirts; 
    2. she remembereth not her last end; 
    3. therefore she came down wonderfully: 
  2. she had no comforter. 
C1-S9 (Verse 9) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. O LORD,
    2. behold my affliction: 
  2. for the enemy hath magnified  himself . 
C1-S10 (Verse 10) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant things: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. for she hath seen  that  the heathen entered into her sanctuary,
    2. whom thou didst command  that  they should not enter into thy congregation. 
C1-S11 (Verse 11) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. All her people sigh,
      2. they seek bread; 
    2. they have given their pleasant things for meat to relieve the soul: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. see,
      2. O LORD,
      3. and consider; 
    2. for I am become vile. 
C1-S12 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1.  Is it  nothing to you,
  2. all ye that pass by? 
C1-S13 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. behold,
  2. and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow,
  3. which is done unto me,
  4. wherewith the LORD hath afflicted  me  in the day of his fierce anger. 
C1-S14 (Verse 13) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. From above hath he sent fire into my bones,
    2. and it prevaileth against them: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he hath spread a net for my feet,
    2. he hath turned me back: 
  3. he hath made me desolate  and  faint all the day. 
C1-S15 (Verse 14) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. they are wreathed,
    2.  and  come up upon my neck: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he hath made my strength to fall,
    2. the Lord hath delivered me into  their  hands,
    3.  from whom  I am not able to rise up. 
C1-S16 (Verse 15) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The Lord hath trodden under foot all my mighty  men  in the midst of me: 
  2. he hath called an assembly against me to crush my young men: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. the Lord hath trodden the virgin,
    2. the daughter of Judah,
    3.  as  in a winepress. 
C1-S17 (Verse 16) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. For these  things  I weep; 
    2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. mine eye,
      2. mine eye runneth down with water,
      3. because the comforter that should relieve my soul is far from me: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. my children are desolate,
    2. because the enemy prevailed. 
C1-S18 (Verse 17) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Zion spreadeth forth her hands,
    2.  and there is  none to comfort her: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. the LORD hath commanded concerning Jacob,
    2.  that  his adversaries  should be  round about him: 
  3. Jerusalem is as a menstruous woman among them. 
C1-S19 (Verse 18) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. The LORD is righteous; 
    2. for I have rebelled against his commandment: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. hear,
    2. I pray you,
    3. all people,
    4. and behold my sorrow: 
  3. my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity. 
C1-S20 (Verse 19) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. I called for my lovers,
    2.  but  they deceived me: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. my priests and mine elders gave up the ghost in the city,
    2. while they sought their meat to relieve their souls. 
C1-S21 (Verse 20) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. Behold,
      2. O LORD; 
    2. for I  am  in distress: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. my bowels are troubled; 
    2. mine heart is turned within me; 
    3. for I have grievously rebelled: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. abroad the sword bereaveth,
    2. at home  there is  as death. 
C1-S22 (Verse 21) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. They have heard that I sigh: 
  2.  there is  none to comfort me: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; 
    2. they are glad that thou hast done  it : 
  4. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. thou wilt bring the day  that  thou hast called,
    2. and they shall be like unto me. 
C1-S23 (Verse 22) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Let all their wickedness come before thee; 
    2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. and do unto them,
      2. as thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. for my sighs  are  many,
    2. and my heart  is  faint. 
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Lament Chapter 2 Ordered by Punctuation

Links to sentences in this chapter: 
C2-S1 (Verse 1), C2-S2 (Verse 2), C2-S3 (Verse 3), C2-S4 (Verse 4), C2-S5 (Verse 5), C2-S6 (Verse 6), C2-S7 (Verse 7), C2-S8 (Verse 8), C2-S9 (Verse 9), C2-S10 (Verse 10), C2-S11 (Verse 11), C2-S12 (Verse 12), C2-S13 (Verse 12), C2-S14 (Verse 13), C2-S15 (Verse 13), C2-S16 (Verse 13), C2-S17 (Verse 13), C2-S18 (Verse 14), C2-S19 (Verse 15), C2-S20 (Verse 16), C2-S21 (Verse 17), C2-S22 (Verse 18), C2-S23 (Verse 19), C2-S24 (Verse 20), C2-S25 (Verse 20), C2-S26 (Verse 20), C2-S27 (Verse 21), C2-S28 (Verse 22). 
C2-S1 (Verse 1) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger,
  2.  and  cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel,
  3. and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! 
C2-S2 (Verse 2) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. The Lord hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob,
    2. and hath not pitied: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; 
    2. he hath brought  them  down to the ground: 
  3. he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof. 
C2-S3 (Verse 3) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. He hath cut off in  his  fierce anger all the horn of Israel: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he hath drawn back his right hand from before the enemy,
    2. and he burned against Jacob like a flaming fire,
    3.  which  devoureth round about. 
C2-S4 (Verse 4) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. He hath bent his bow like an enemy: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he stood with his right hand as an adversary,
    2. and slew all  that were  pleasant to the eye in the tabernacle of the daughter of Zion: 
  3. he poured out his fury like fire. 
C2-S5 (Verse 5) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The Lord was as an enemy: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he hath swallowed up Israel,
    2. he hath swallowed up all her palaces: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he hath destroyed his strong holds,
    2. and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation. 
C2-S6 (Verse 6) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle,
    2. as  if it were of  a garden: 
  2. he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion,
    2. and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest. 
C2-S7 (Verse 7) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. The Lord hath cast off his altar,
    2. he hath abhorred his sanctuary,
    3. he hath given up into the hand of the enemy the walls of her palaces; 
  2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. they have made a noise in the house of the LORD,
    2. as in the day of a solemn feast. 
C2-S8 (Verse 8) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he hath stretched out a line,
    2. he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; 
    2. they languished together. 
C2-S9 (Verse 9) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Her gates are sunk into the ground; 
    2. he hath destroyed and broken her bars: 
  2. her king and her princes  are  among the Gentiles: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. the law  is  no  more ; 
    2. her prophets also find no vision from the LORD. 
C2-S10 (Verse 10) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. The elders of the daughter of Zion sit upon the ground,
    2.  and  keep silence: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. they have cast up dust upon their heads; 
    2. they have girded themselves with sackcloth: 
  3. the virgins of Jerusalem hang down their heads to the ground. 
C2-S11 (Verse 11) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Mine eyes do fail with tears,
    2. my bowels are troubled,
    3. my liver is poured upon the earth,
    4. for the destruction of the daughter of my people; 
  2. because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city. 
C2-S12 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. They say to their mothers,
  2. Where  is  corn and wine? 
C2-S13 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city,
  2. when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom. 
C2-S14 (Verse 13) What thing shall I take to witness for thee? 
C2-S15 (Verse 13) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. what thing shall I liken to thee,
  2. O daughter of Jerusalem? 
C2-S16 (Verse 13) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. what shall I equal to thee,
  2. that I may comfort thee,
  3. O virgin daughter of Zion? 
C2-S17 (Verse 13) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. for thy breach is great like the sea: 
  2. who can heal thee? 
C2-S18 (Verse 14) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Thy prophets have seen vain and foolish things for thee: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. and they have not discovered thine iniquity,
      2. to turn away thy captivity; 
    2. but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment. 
C2-S19 (Verse 15) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. All that pass by clap  their  hands at thee; 
  2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem,
    2.  saying,
    3. Is  this the city that  men  call The perfection of beauty,
    4. The joy of the whole earth? 
C2-S20 (Verse 16) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. All thine enemies have opened their mouth against thee: 
  2. they hiss and gnash the teeth: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. they say,
    2. We have swallowed  her  up: 
  4. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. certainly this  is  the day that we looked for; 
    2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. we have found,
      2. we have seen  it . 
C2-S21 (Verse 17) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. The LORD hath done  that  which he had devised; 
    2. he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he hath thrown down,
    2. and hath not pitied: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. and he hath caused  thine  enemy to rejoice over thee,
    2. he hath set up the horn of thine adversaries. 
C2-S22 (Verse 18) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Their heart cried unto the Lord,
    2. O wall of the daughter of Zion,
    3. let tears run down like a river day and night: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. give thyself no rest; 
    2. let not the apple of thine eye cease. 
C2-S23 (Verse 19) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Arise,
    2. cry out in the night: 
  2. in the beginning of the watches pour out thine heart like water before the face of the Lord: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. lift up thy hands toward him for the life of thy young children,
    2. that faint for hunger in the top of every street. 
C2-S24 (Verse 20) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Behold,
  2. O LORD,
  3. and consider to whom thou hast done this. 
C2-S25 (Verse 20) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Shall the women eat their fruit,
  2.  and  children of a span long? 
C2-S26 (Verse 20) shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? 
C2-S27 (Verse 21) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The young and the old lie on the ground in the streets: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; 
    2. thou hast slain  them  in the day of thine anger; 
    3. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. thou hast killed,
      2.  and  not pitied. 
C2-S28 (Verse 22) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about,
    2. so that in the day of the LORD'S anger none escaped nor remained: 
  2. those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed. 
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Lament Chapter 3 Ordered by Punctuation

Links to sentences in this chapter: 
C3-S1 (Verse 1), C3-S2 (Verse 2), C3-S3 (Verse 3), C3-S4 (Verse 4), C3-S5 (Verse 5), C3-S6 (Verse 6), C3-S7 (Verse 7), C3-S8 (Verse 8), C3-S9 (Verse 9), C3-S10 (Verse 10), C3-S11 (Verse 11), C3-S12 (Verse 12), C3-S13 (Verse 13), C3-S14 (Verse 14), C3-S15 (Verse 15), C3-S16 (Verse 16), C3-S17 (Verse 17), C3-S18 (Verse 18-19), C3-S19 (Verse 20), C3-S20 (Verse 21), C3-S21 (Verse 22), C3-S22 (Verse 23), C3-S23 (Verse 24), C3-S24 (Verse 25), C3-S25 (Verse 26), C3-S26 (Verse 27), C3-S27 (Verse 28), C3-S28 (Verse 29), C3-S29 (Verse 30), C3-S30 (Verse 31-32), C3-S31 (Verse 33), C3-S32 (Verse 34-36), C3-S33 (Verse 37), C3-S34 (Verse 38), C3-S35 (Verse 39), C3-S36 (Verse 40), C3-S37 (Verse 41), C3-S38 (Verse 42), C3-S39 (Verse 43), C3-S40 (Verse 44), C3-S41 (Verse 45), C3-S42 (Verse 46), C3-S43 (Verse 47), C3-S44 (Verse 48), C3-S45 (Verse 49-50), C3-S46 (Verse 51), C3-S47 (Verse 52), C3-S48 (Verse 53), C3-S49 (Verse 54), C3-S50 (Verse 55), C3-S51 (Verse 56), C3-S52 (Verse 57), C3-S53 (Verse 58), C3-S54 (Verse 59), C3-S55 (Verse 60), C3-S56 (Verse 61-62), C3-S57 (Verse 63), C3-S58 (Verse 64), C3-S59 (Verse 65), C3-S60 (Verse 66). 
C3-S1 (Verse 1) I  am  the man  that  hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 
C3-S2 (Verse 2) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He hath led me,
  2. and brought  me into  darkness,
  3. but not  into  light. 
C3-S3 (Verse 3) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Surely against me is he turned; 
  2. he turneth his hand  against me  all the day. 
C3-S4 (Verse 4) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. My flesh and my skin hath he made old; 
  2. he hath broken my bones. 
C3-S5 (Verse 5) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He hath builded against me,
  2. and compassed  me  with gall and travail. 
C3-S6 (Verse 6) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He hath set me in dark places,
  2. as  they that be  dead of old. 
C3-S7 (Verse 7) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. He hath hedged me about,
    2. that I cannot get out: 
  2. he hath made my chain heavy. 
C3-S8 (Verse 8) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Also when I cry and shout,
  2. he shutteth out my prayer. 
C3-S9 (Verse 9) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He hath inclosed my ways with hewn stone,
  2. he hath made my paths crooked. 
C3-S10 (Verse 10) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He  was  unto me  as  a bear lying in wait,
  2.  and as  a lion in secret places. 
C3-S11 (Verse 11) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. He hath turned aside my ways,
    2. and pulled me in pieces: 
  2. he hath made me desolate. 
C3-S12 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He hath bent his bow,
  2. and set me as a mark for the arrow. 
C3-S13 (Verse 13) He hath caused the arrows of his quiver to enter into my reins. 
C3-S14 (Verse 14) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. I was a derision to all my people; 
  2.  and  their song all the day. 
C3-S15 (Verse 15) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He hath filled me with bitterness,
  2. he hath made me drunken with wormwood. 
C3-S16 (Verse 16) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He hath also broken my teeth with gravel stones,
  2. he hath covered me with ashes. 
C3-S17 (Verse 17) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. And thou hast removed my soul far off from peace: 
  2. I forgat prosperity. 
C3-S18 (Verse 18-19) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. And I said,
    2. My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Remembering mine affliction and my misery,
    2. the wormwood and the gall. 
C3-S19 (Verse 20) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. My soul hath  them  still in remembrance,
  2. and is humbled in me. 
C3-S20 (Verse 21) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. This I recall to my mind,
  2. therefore have I hope. 
C3-S21 (Verse 22) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1.  It is of  the LORD'S mercies that we are not consumed,
  2. because his compassions fail not. 
C3-S22 (Verse 23) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1.  They are  new every morning: 
  2. great  is  thy faithfulness. 
C3-S23 (Verse 24) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. The LORD  is  my portion,
    2. saith my soul; 
  2. therefore will I hope in him. 
C3-S24 (Verse 25) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. The LORD  is  good unto them that wait for him,
  2. to the soul  that  seeketh him. 
C3-S25 (Verse 26)  It is  good that  a man  should both hope and quietly wait for the salvation of the LORD. 
C3-S26 (Verse 27)  It is  good for a man that he bear the yoke in his youth. 
C3-S27 (Verse 28) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. He sitteth alone and keepeth silence,
  2. because he hath borne it upon him. 
C3-S28 (Verse 29) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. He putteth his mouth in the dust; 
  2. if so be there may be hope. 
C3-S29 (Verse 30) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. He giveth  his  cheek to him that smiteth him: 
  2. he is filled full with reproach. 
C3-S30 (Verse 31-32) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. For the Lord will not cast off for ever: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. But though he cause grief,
    2. yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. 
C3-S31 (Verse 33) For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. 
C3-S32 (Verse 34-36) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. To crush under his feet all the prisoners of the earth,
  2. To turn aside the right of a man before the face of the most High,
  3. To subvert a man in his cause,
  4. the Lord approveth not. 
C3-S33 (Verse 37) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Who  is  he  that  saith,
  2. and it cometh to pass,
  3.  when  the Lord commandeth  it  not? 
C3-S34 (Verse 38) Out of the mouth of the most High proceedeth not evil and good? 
C3-S35 (Verse 39) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Wherefore doth a living man complain,
  2. a man for the punishment of his sins? 
C3-S36 (Verse 40) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Let us search and try our ways,
  2. and turn again to the LORD. 
C3-S37 (Verse 41) Let us lift up our heart with  our  hands unto God in the heavens. 
C3-S38 (Verse 42) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. We have transgressed and have rebelled: 
  2. thou hast not pardoned. 
C3-S39 (Verse 43) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Thou hast covered with anger,
    2. and persecuted us: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. thou hast slain,
    2. thou hast not pitied. 
C3-S40 (Verse 44) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Thou hast covered thyself with a cloud,
  2. that  our  prayer should not pass through. 
C3-S41 (Verse 45) Thou hast made us  as  the offscouring and refuse in the midst of the people. 
C3-S42 (Verse 46) All our enemies have opened their mouths against us. 
C3-S43 (Verse 47) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Fear and a snare is come upon us,
  2. desolation and destruction. 
C3-S44 (Verse 48) Mine eye runneth down with rivers of water for the destruction of the daughter of my people. 
C3-S45 (Verse 49-50) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Mine eye trickleth down,
  2. and ceaseth not,
  3. without any intermission,
  4. Till the LORD look down,
  5. and behold from heaven. 
C3-S46 (Verse 51) Mine eye affecteth mine heart because of all the daughters of my city. 
C3-S47 (Verse 52) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Mine enemies chased me sore,
  2. like a bird,
  3. without cause. 
C3-S48 (Verse 53) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. They have cut off my life in the dungeon,
  2. and cast a stone upon me. 
C3-S49 (Verse 54) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Waters flowed over mine head; 
  2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1.  then  I said,
    2. I am cut off. 
C3-S50 (Verse 55) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. I called upon thy name,
  2. O LORD,
  3. out of the low dungeon. 
C3-S51 (Verse 56) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Thou hast heard my voice: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. hide not thine ear at my breathing,
    2. at my cry. 
C3-S52 (Verse 57) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Thou drewest near in the day  that  I called upon thee: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. thou saidst,
    2. Fear not. 
C3-S53 (Verse 58) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. O Lord,
    2. thou hast pleaded the causes of my soul; 
  2. thou hast redeemed my life. 
C3-S54 (Verse 59) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. O LORD,
    2. thou hast seen my wrong: 
  2. judge thou my cause. 
C3-S55 (Verse 60) Thou hast seen all their vengeance  and  all their imaginations against me. 
C3-S56 (Verse 61-62) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Thou hast heard their reproach,
    2. O LORD,
    3.  and  all their imaginations against me; 
  2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. The lips of those that rose up against me,
    2. and their device against me all the day. 
C3-S57 (Verse 63) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Behold their sitting down,
    2. and their rising up; 
  2. I  am  their musick. 
C3-S58 (Verse 64) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Render unto them a recompence,
  2. O LORD,
  3. according to the work of their hands. 
C3-S59 (Verse 65) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Give them sorrow of heart,
  2. thy curse unto them. 
C3-S60 (Verse 66) Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD. 
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Links to sentences in this chapter: 
C4-S1 (Verse 1), C4-S2 (Verse 1), C4-S3 (Verse 1), C4-S4 (Verse 2), C4-S5 (Verse 3), C4-S6 (Verse 4), C4-S7 (Verse 5), C4-S8 (Verse 6), C4-S9 (Verse 7-8), C4-S10 (Verse 9), C4-S11 (Verse 10), C4-S12 (Verse 11), C4-S13 (Verse 12), C4-S14 (Verse 13-14), C4-S15 (Verse 15), C4-S16 (Verse 16), C4-S17 (Verse 17), C4-S18 (Verse 18), C4-S19 (Verse 19), C4-S20 (Verse 20), C4-S21 (Verse 21), C4-S22 (Verse 22). 
C4-S1 (Verse 1) How is the gold become dim! 
C4-S2 (Verse 1)  how  is the most fine gold changed! 
C4-S3 (Verse 1) the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. 
C4-S4 (Verse 2) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. The precious sons of Zion,
  2. comparable to fine gold,
  3. how are they esteemed as earthen pitchers,
  4. the work of the hands of the potter! 
C4-S5 (Verse 3) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Even the sea monsters draw out the breast,
    2. they give suck to their young ones: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. the daughter of my people  is become  cruel,
    2. like the ostriches in the wilderness. 
C4-S6 (Verse 4) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The tongue of the sucking child cleaveth to the roof of his mouth for thirst: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. the young children ask bread,
    2.  and  no man breaketh  it  unto them. 
C4-S7 (Verse 5) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: 
  2. they that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills. 
C4-S8 (Verse 6) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom,
  2. that was overthrown as in a moment,
  3. and no hands stayed on her. 
C4-S9 (Verse 7-8) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Her Nazarites were purer than snow,
    2. they were whiter than milk,
    3. they were more ruddy in body than rubies,
    4. their polishing  was  of sapphire: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Their visage is blacker than a coal; 
    2. they are not known in the streets: 
  3. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. their skin cleaveth to their bones; 
    2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. it is withered,
      2. it is become like a stick. 
C4-S10 (Verse 9) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1.  They that be  slain with the sword are better than  they that be  slain with hunger: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. for these pine away,
    2. stricken through for  want of  the fruits of the field. 
C4-S11 (Verse 10) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: 
  2. they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people. 
C4-S12 (Verse 11) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. The LORD hath accomplished his fury; 
  2. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. he hath poured out his fierce anger,
    2. and hath kindled a fire in Zion,
    3. and it hath devoured the foundations thereof. 
C4-S13 (Verse 12) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. The kings of the earth,
  2. and all the inhabitants of the world,
  3. would not have believed that the adversary and the enemy should have entered into the gates of Jerusalem. 
C4-S14 (Verse 13-14) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. For the sins of her prophets,
  2.  and  the iniquities of her priests,
  3. that have shed the blood of the just in the midst of her,
  4. They have wandered  as  blind  men  in the streets,
  5. they have polluted themselves with blood,
  6. so that men could not touch their garments. 
C4-S15 (Verse 15) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. They cried unto them,
      2. Depart ye; 
    2.  it is  unclean; 
    3. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. depart,
      2. depart,
      3. touch not: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. when they fled away and wandered,
    2. they said among the heathen,
    3. They shall no more sojourn  there . 
C4-S16 (Verse 16) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. The anger of the LORD hath divided them; 
    2. he will no more regard them: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. they respected not the persons of the priests,
    2. they favoured not the elders. 
C4-S17 (Verse 17) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. As for us,
    2. our eyes as yet failed for our vain help: 
  2. in our watching we have watched for a nation  that  could not save  us . 
C4-S18 (Verse 18) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. They hunt our steps,
    2. that we cannot go in our streets: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. our end is near,
      2. our days are fulfilled; 
    2. for our end is come. 
C4-S19 (Verse 19) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. they pursued us upon the mountains,
    2. they laid wait for us in the wilderness. 
C4-S20 (Verse 20) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. The breath of our nostrils,
  2. the anointed of the LORD,
  3. was taken in their pits,
  4. of whom we said,
  5. Under his shadow we shall live among the heathen. 
C4-S21 (Verse 21) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. Rejoice and be glad,
      2. O daughter of Edom,
      3. that dwellest in the land of Uz; 
    2. the cup also shall pass through unto thee: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. thou shalt be drunken,
    2. and shalt make thyself naked. 
C4-S22 (Verse 22) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished,
      2. O daughter of Zion; 
    2. he will no more carry thee away into captivity: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Parts of sentence below are steps. 
    1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
      1. he will visit thine iniquity,
      2. O daughter of Edom; 
    2. he will discover thy sins. 
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Links to sentences in this chapter: 
C5-S1 (Verse 1), C5-S2 (Verse 2), C5-S3 (Verse 3), C5-S4 (Verse 4), C5-S5 (Verse 5), C5-S6 (Verse 6), C5-S7 (Verse 7), C5-S8 (Verse 8), C5-S9 (Verse 9), C5-S10 (Verse 10), C5-S11 (Verse 11), C5-S12 (Verse 12), C5-S13 (Verse 13), C5-S14 (Verse 14), C5-S15 (Verse 15), C5-S16 (Verse 16), C5-S17 (Verse 17), C5-S18 (Verse 18), C5-S19 (Verse 19), C5-S20 (Verse 20), C5-S21 (Verse 21), C5-S22 (Verse 21). 
C5-S1 (Verse 1) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Remember,
    2. O LORD,
    3. what is come upon us: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. consider,
    2. and behold our reproach. 
C5-S2 (Verse 2) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Our inheritance is turned to strangers,
  2. our houses to aliens. 
C5-S3 (Verse 3) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. We are orphans and fatherless,
  2. our mothers  are  as widows. 
C5-S4 (Verse 4) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. We have drunken our water for money; 
  2. our wood is sold unto us. 
C5-S5 (Verse 5) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Our necks  are  under persecution: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. we labour,
    2.  and  have no rest. 
C5-S6 (Verse 6) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. We have given the hand  to  the Egyptians,
  2.  and to  the Assyrians,
  3. to be satisfied with bread. 
C5-S7 (Verse 7) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Our fathers have sinned,
    2.  and are  not; 
  2. and we have borne their iniquities. 
C5-S8 (Verse 8) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Servants have ruled over us: 
  2.  there is  none that doth deliver  us  out of their hand. 
C5-S9 (Verse 9) We gat our bread with  the peril of  our lives because of the sword of the wilderness. 
C5-S10 (Verse 10) Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine. 
C5-S11 (Verse 11) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. They ravished the women in Zion,
  2.  and  the maids in the cities of Judah. 
C5-S12 (Verse 12) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. Princes are hanged up by their hand: 
  2. the faces of elders were not honoured. 
C5-S13 (Verse 13) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. They took the young men to grind,
  2. and the children fell under the wood. 
C5-S14 (Verse 14) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. The elders have ceased from the gate,
  2. the young men from their musick. 
C5-S15 (Verse 15) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. The joy of our heart is ceased; 
  2. our dance is turned into mourning. 
C5-S16 (Verse 16) This sentence has equivalent sections. 
  1. The crown is fallen  from  our head: 
  2. Equivalent Section:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. woe unto us,
    2. that we have sinned! 
C5-S17 (Verse 17) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. For this our heart is faint; 
  2. for these  things  our eyes are dim. 
C5-S18 (Verse 18) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Because of the mountain of Zion,
  2. which is desolate,
  3. the foxes walk upon it. 
C5-S19 (Verse 19) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Thou,
    2. O LORD,
    3. remainest for ever; 
  2. thy throne from generation to generation. 
C5-S20 (Verse 20) Each phrase below has equal importance. 
  1. Wherefore dost thou forget us for ever,
  2.  and  forsake us so long time? 
C5-S21 (Verse 21) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. Step:  Each phrase below has equal importance. 
    1. Turn thou us unto thee,
    2. O LORD,
    3. and we shall be turned; 
  2. renew our days as of old. 
C5-S22 (Verse 21) Parts of sentence below are steps. 
  1. But thou hast utterly rejected us; 
  2. thou art very wroth against us. 
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