H9002–/וְ–v

The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn assembly; all her gates are desolate, her priests sigh; her virgins are afflicted, and she herself is in bitterness.

וְהִ֥יא (וְ) ve. “and”

Jerusalem remembereth in the days of her affliction and of her anguish all her treasures that she had from the days of old; now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary, and none doth help her, the adversaries have seen her, they have mocked at

וּמְרוּדֶ֔יהָ (וּ) u. “and”וְאֵ֤ין (וְ) ve. “and”

All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to refresh the soul. 'See, O LORD, and behold, how abject I am become.'

וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה (וְֽ) ve. “and”

'Let it not come unto you, all ye that pass by! Behold, and see if there be any pain like unto my pain, which is done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of His fierce anger.

וּרְא֗וּ (וּ) u. “and”

'The LORD is righteous; for I have rebelled against His word; hear, I pray you, all ye peoples, and behold my pain: my virgins and my young men are gone into captivity.

וּרְאוּ֙ (וּ) u. “and”וּבַחוּרַ֖י (וּ) u. “and”

I called for my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and mine elders perished in the city, while they sought them food to refresh their souls.

וּזְקֵנַ֖י (וּ) u. “and”וְיָשִׁ֖יבוּ (וְ) ve. “so”

They have heard that I sigh, there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble, and are glad, for Thou hast done it; Thou wilt bring the day that Thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

וְיִֽהְי֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Let all their wickedness come before Thee; and do unto them, as Thou hast done unto me for all my transgressions; for my sighs are many and my heart is faint.'

וְעוֹלֵ֣ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְלִבִּ֥י (וְ) ve. “and”

How hath the Lord covered with a cloud the daughter of Zion in His anger! He hath cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and hath not remembered His footstool in the day of His anger.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The Lord hath swallowed up unsparingly all the habitations of Jacob; He hath thrown down in His wrath the strongholds of the daughter of Judah; He hath brought them down to the ground; He hath profaned the kingdom and the princes thereof.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) l “and”וְשָׂרֶֽיהָ׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

The Lord is become as an enemy, He hath swallowed up Israel; He hath swallowed up all her palaces, He hath destroyed his strongholds; and He hath multiplied in the daughter of Judah mourning and moaning.

וַאֲנִיָּֽה׃ (וַ) va. “and”

And He hath stripped His tabernacle, as if it were a garden, He hath destroyed His place of assembly; the LORD hath caused to be forgotten in Zion appointed season and sabbath, and hath rejected in the indignation of His anger the king and the priest.

וְשַׁבָּ֔ת (וְ) ve. “and”וְכֹהֵֽן׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

The LORD hath purposed to destroy the wall of the daughter of Zion; He hath stretched out the line, He hath not withdrawn His hand from destroying; but He hath made the rampart and wall to mourn, they languish together.

וְחוֹמָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Her gates are sunk into the ground; He hath destroyed and broken her bars; her king and her princes are among the nations, instruction is no more; yea, her prophets find no vision from the LORD.

וְשִׁבַּ֖ר (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׂרֶ֤יהָ (וְ) ve. “and”

Mine eyes do fail with tears, mine inwards burn, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the breach of the daughter of my people; because the young children and the sucklings swoon in the broad places of the city.

וְיוֹנֵ֔ק (וְ) ve. “and”

They say to their mothers: 'Where is corn and wine?' when they swoon as the wounded in the broad places of the city, when their soul is poured out into their mothers' bosom.

וָיָ֑יִן (וָ) va. “and”

What shall I take to witness for thee? What shall I liken to thee, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee, O virgin daughter of Zion? For thy breach is great like the sea; who can heal thee?

וַאֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔ךְ (וַ) va. “so”

Thy prophets have seen visions for thee of vanity and delusion; and they have not uncovered thine iniquity, to bring back thy captivity; but have prophesied for thee burdens of vanity and seduction.

וְתָפֵ֔ל (וְ) ve. “and”וְלֹֽא־ (וְ) ve. “and”וּמַדּוּחִֽים׃ (וּ) u. “and”

The LORD hath done that which He devised; He hath performed His word that He commanded in the days of old; He hath thrown down unsparingly; and He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee, He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Their heart cried unto the Lord: 'O wall of the daughter of Zion, let tears run down like a river day and night; give thyself no respite; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

וָלַ֔יְלָה (וָ) va. “and”

'See, O LORD, and consider, to whom Thou hast done thus! Shall the women eat their fruit, the children that are dandled in the hands? Shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה (וְֽ) ve. “and”וְנָבִֽיא׃ (וְ) ve. “and”

The youth and the old man lie on the ground in the streets; my virgins and my young men are fallen by the sword; Thou hast slain them in the day of Thine anger; Thou hast slaughtered unsparingly.

וְזָקֵ֔ן (וְ) ve. “and”וּבַחוּרַ֖י (וּ) u. “and”

Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly, my terrors on every side, and there was none in the day of the LORD'S anger that escaped or remained; those that I have dandled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.'

וְלֹ֥א (וְ) ve. “and”וְשָׂרִ֑יד (וְ) ve. “and”וְרִבִּ֖יתִי (וְ) ve. “and”

He hath led me and caused me to walk in darkness and not in light.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

My flesh and my skin hath He worn out; He hath broken my bones.

וְעוֹרִ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”