H9002–/וְ–v

The ways of Zion are sad, because no one comes to the holy meeting; all her doorways are made waste, her priests are breathing out sorrow: her virgins are troubled, and it is bitter for her.

וְהִ֥יא (וְ) ve. “and”

Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and m

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

Breathing out grief all her people are looking for bread; they have given their desired things for food to give them life: see, O Lord, and take note; for she has become a thing of shame.

וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה (וְֽ) ve. “and”

Come to me, all you who go by! Keep your eyes on me, and see if there is any pain like the pain of my wound, which the Lord has sent on me in the day of his burning wrath.

וּרְא֗וּ (וּ) u. “and”

The Lord is upright; for I have gone against his orders: give ear, now, all you peoples, and see my pain, my virgins and my young men have gone away as prisoners.

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

I sent for my lovers, but they were false to me: my priests and my responsible men were breathing their last breath in the town, while they were looking for food to give them new life.

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

Give ear to the voice of my grief; I have no comforter; all my haters have news of my troubles, they are glad because you have done it: let the day of fate come when they will be like me.

וְיִֽהְי֥וּ (וְ) ve. “and”

Let all their evil-doing come before you; do to them as you have done to me for all my sins: for loud is the sound of my grief, and the strength of my heart is gone.

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

How has the daughter of Zion been covered with a cloud by the Lord in his wrath! he has sent down from heaven to earth the glory of Israel, and has not kept in memory the resting-place of his feet in the day of his wrath.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The Lord has given up to destruction all the living-places of Jacob without pity; pulling down in his wrath the strong places of the daughter of Judah, stretching out on the earth the wounded, even her king and her rulers.

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

The Lord has become like one fighting against her, sending destruction on Israel; he has sent destruction on all her great houses, making waste his strong places: increasing the grief and the sorrow of the daughter of Judah.

וַאֲנִיָּֽה׃ (וַ) va. “and”

And he has violently taken away his tent, as from a garden; he has made waste his meeting-place: the Lord has taken away the memory of feast and Sabbath in Zion, and in the passion of his wrath he is against king and priest.

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

It is the Lord's purpose to make waste the wall of the daughter of Zion; his line has been stretched out, he has not kept back his hand from destruction: he has sent sorrow on tower and wall, they have become feeble together.

וְחוֹמָ֖ה (וְ) ve. “and”

Her doors have gone down into the earth; he has sent destruction on her locks: her king and her princes are among the nations where the law is not; even her prophets have had no vision from the Lord.

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

My eyes are wasted with weeping, the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved, my inner parts are drained out on the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because of the young children and babies at the breast who are falling without s

וְיוֹנֵ֔ק (וְ) ve. “and”

They say to their mothers, Where is grain and wine? when they are falling like the wounded in the open squares of the town, when their life is drained out on their mother's breast.

וָיָ֑יִן (וָ) va. “and”

What example am I to give you? what comparison am I to make for you, O daughter of Jerusalem? what am I to make equal to you, so that I may give you comfort, O virgin daughter of Zion? for your destruction is great like the sea: who is able to make you w

וַאֲנַֽחֲמֵ֔ךְ (וַ) va. “so”

The visions which your prophets have seen for you are false and foolish; they have not made clear to you your sin so that your fate might be changed: but they have seen for you false words, driving you away.

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

The Lord has done that which was his purpose; he has put into force the orders which he gave in the days which are past; pulling down without pity, he has made your hater glad over you, lifting up the horn of those who were against you.

וְלֹ֣א (וְ) ve. “and”

Let your cry go up to the Lord: O wall of the daughter of Zion, let your weeping be flowing down like a stream day and night; give yourself no rest, let not your eyes keep back the drops of sorrow.

וָלַ֔יְלָה (וָ) va. “and”

Look! O Lord, see to whom you have done this! Are the women to take as their food the fruit of their bodies, the children who are folded in their arms? are the priest and the prophet to be put to death in the holy place of the Lord?

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

The young men and the old are stretched on the earth in the streets; my virgins and my young men have been put to the sword: you have sent death on them in the day of your wrath, causing death without pity.

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

As in the day of a holy meeting you have made fears come round me on every side, and no one got away or was kept safe in the day of the Lord's wrath: those who were folded in my arms, whom I took care of, have been sent to their destruction by my hater.

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

By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

וְעוֹרִ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”