Old Testament

Lamentations

Read Lamentations online — mourning Jerusalem, hope in God’s mercies

5 chapters — your reading progress will grow here.

Chapters

1 How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She w…

1 How has the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger! He has cast the beauty of Israel down from he…

1 I am the man who has seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. 2 He has led me and caused me to walk in darkness, and n…

1 How the gold has become dim! The most pure gold has changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the head of…

1 Remember, Yahweh, what has come on us. Look, and see our reproach. 2 Our inheritance has been turned over to strangers…