H9002–/וְ–v

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

וְהִ֥יא (וְ) ve. “and”

Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.

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

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

וְֽהַבִּ֔יטָה (וְֽ) ve. “and”

Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, 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 commandment: hear, I pray you, all people, and behold my sorrow: 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 gave up the ghost in the city, while they sought their meat to relieve 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; they are glad that thou hast done it: thou wilt bring the day that thou hast called, 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 the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger!

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

The LORD hath swallowed up all the habitations of Jacob, and hath not pitied: he hath thrown down in his wrath the strong holds of the daughter of Judah; he hath brought them down to the ground: he hath polluted the kingdom and the princes thereof.

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

The LORD was as an enemy: he hath swallowed up Israel, he hath swallowed up all her palaces: he hath destroyed his strong holds, and hath increased in the daughter of Judah mourning and lamentation.

וַאֲנִיָּֽה׃ (וַ) va. “and”

And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: the LORD hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised 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 a line, he hath not withdrawn his hand from destroying: therefore he made the rampart and the wall to lament; they languished 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 Gentiles: the law is no more; her prophets also find no vision from the LORD.

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

Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

וְיוֹנֵ֔ק (וְ) ve. “and”

They say to their mothers, Where is corn and wine? when they swooned as the wounded in the streets of the city, when their soul was poured out into their mothers' bosom.

וָיָ֑יִן (וָ) va. “and”

What thing shall I take to witness for thee? what thing 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 vain and foolish things for thee: and they have not discovered thine iniquity, to turn away thy captivity; but have seen for thee false burdens and causes of banishment.

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

The LORD hath done that which he had devised; he hath fulfilled his word that he had commanded in the days of old: he hath thrown down, and hath not pitied: and he hath caused thine enemy to rejoice over thee, he hath set up 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 rest; let not the apple of thine eye cease.

וָלַ֔יְלָה (וָ) va. “and”

Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom thou hast done this. Shall the women eat their fruit, and children of a span long? shall the priest and the prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord?

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

The young and the old 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 killed, and not pitied.

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

Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the LORD's anger none escaped nor remained: those that I have swaddled and brought up hath mine enemy consumed.

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

He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light.

וְלֹא־ (וְ) ve. “and”

My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

וְעוֹרִ֔י (וְ) ve. “and”