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Lam ["How sitts this citie, late most populous,"]


11 And all the People grone, and seeke for bread
And they haue giuen, only to bee fed
All pretious thinges, where in their pleasure lay,
How cheape Ime growne, behold O Lord and waye

12 All this concernes not you, who passe by mee,
O see, and marke if any sorrowe bee
Like to my sorrowe, which Iehouah hath
Done to mee in the daie of his fierce wrath.

13 The fire which by himself is gouerned
Hee hath cast from Heaven, on my bones, and spred
A nett before my feete, and mee orethrowne
And made mee languish, all the daie alone

14 His hand hath of my sinns framed a yoake
Which wreathd, and cast vppon my necke, haue broke
My strength. The Lord vnto those Enemies
Hath giuen mee, from whome I cannot rise

15 Hee vnder foote hath troden in my sight
My strong Men: He did companie Invite
To breake my Young Men: Hee the Wine=presse hath
Trodd. Vppon Iudas daughter in his, wrath.

16 For these thinges doe I weepe, Mine Eie, Mine Eie
Casts water out; For hee which should bee nigh
To comfort mee is now departed farr;
The foe preuailes; forlorne my chyldren are [CW: Theires:]
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