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| The Lamentations of Jeremy, for the most part |
| according to Tremelius. |
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| CHAP. I. |
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| 1. How sits this City, late most populous |
| Thus solitary, and like a widow thus? |
| Amplest of Nations, Queen of Provinces |
| She was, who now thus tributary is. |
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| 2. Still in the night she weeps, and her tears fall |
| Down by her cheeks along, and none of all |
| Her lovers comfort her; Perfidiously |
| Her friends have dealt, and now are enemy. |
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| 3. Unto great bondage, and afflictions, |
| Juda is captive led; those Nations |
| With whom she dwells, no place of rest afford, |
| In straights she meets her Persecutors sword. |
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| 4. Emptie are the gates of Sion, and her wayes |
| Mourn, because none come to her solemn dayes. |
| Her Priests do groan, her maids are comfortless, |
| And shee's unto her self a bitterness. |
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| 5. Her foes are grown her head, and live at Peace, |
| Because when her transgressions did increase, |
| The Lord strook her with sadness: Th' enemie |
| Doth drive her children to captivitie. |
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| 6. From Sions daughter is all beauty gone, |
| Like hearts which seek for Pasture, and find none |
| Her Princes are: and now before the foe |
| Which still pursues them, without strength they goe.
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[CW: 7. Now] |