World Communion Sunday
October 2, 2022
October 2, 2022
Lamentations 1:1-6
The Deserted City1 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal.
2 She weeps bitterly in the night, tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her;
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies
3 Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations,
but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
4 The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the appointed feasts; all her gates are desolate,
her priests groan; her maidens have been dragged away,[a] and she herself suffers bitterly.
5 Her foes have become the head her enemies prosper, because the Lord has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
6 From the daughter of Zion has departed all her majesty. Her princes have become like harts that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.
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(New Revised Standard)
The Deserted City1 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the cities has become a vassal.
2 She weeps bitterly in the night, tears on her cheeks; among all her lovers she has none to comfort her;
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they have become her enemies
3 Judah has gone into exile because of affliction and hard servitude; she dwells now among the nations,
but finds no resting place; her pursuers have all overtaken her in the midst of her distress.
4 The roads to Zion mourn, for none come to the appointed feasts; all her gates are desolate,
her priests groan; her maidens have been dragged away,[a] and she herself suffers bitterly.
5 Her foes have become the head her enemies prosper, because the Lord has made her suffer for the multitude of her transgressions; her children have gone away, captives before the foe.
6 From the daughter of Zion has departed all her majesty. Her princes have become like harts that find no pasture; they fled without strength before the pursuer.
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(New Revised Standard)