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Translated from the Latin Vulgate
Diligently Compared with the Hebrew, Greek,and Other Editions in Divers Languages
THE OLD TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Douay
A.D. 1609 & 1610
and
THE NEW TESTAMENT
First Published by the English College at Rheims
A.D. 1582
With Annotations
The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared withthe Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard ChallonerA.D. 1749-1752
In these JEREMIAS laments in a most pathetical manner the miseries ofhis people, and the destruction of JERUSALEM and the temple, in Hebrewverses, beginning with different letters according to the order of theHebrew alphabet.
Lamentations Chapter 1
PREFACE: And it came to pass, after Israel was carried into captivity,and Jerusalem was desolate, that Jeremias the prophet sat weeping, andmourned with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and with a sorrowful mind,sighing and moaning, he said:
And it came to pass, etc… This preface was not written by Jeremias,but was added by the seventy interpreters, to give the reader tounderstand upon what occasion the Lamentations were published.
1:1. Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! howis the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes ofprovinces made tributary!
1:2. Beth. Weeping, she hath wept in the night, and her tears are on hercheeks: there is none to comfort her among all them that were dear toher: all her friends have despised her, and are become her enemies.
1:3. Ghimel. Juda hath removed her dwelling place, because of heraffliction, and the greatness of her bondage; she hath dwelt among thenations, and she hath found no rest; all her persecutors have taken herin the midst of straits.
1:4. Daleth. The ways of Sion mourn, because there are none that come tothe solemn feast: all her gates are broken down; her priests sigh; hervirgins are in affliction; and she is oppressed with bitterness. 1:5.He. Her adversaries are become her lords; her enemies are enriched;because the Lord hath spoken against her for the multitude of heriniquities; her children are led into captivity, before the face of theoppressor.
1:6. Vau. And from the daughter of Sion, all her beauty is departed; herprinces are become like rams that find no pastures; and they are goneaway without strength before the face of the pursuer.
1:7. Zain. Jerusalem hath remembered the days of her affliction, andprevarication of all her desirable things which she had from the days ofold, when her people fell in the enemy's hand, and there was no helper;the enemies have seen her, and have mocked at her sabbaths.
1:8. Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she becomeunstable; all that honoured her, have despised her, because they haveseen her shame; but she sighed, and turned backward.
1:9. Teth. Her filthiness is on her feet, and she hath not rememberedher end; she is wonderfully cast down, not having a comforter: behold, OLord, my affliction, be