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Lamentations 1:11–13

Lamentations 1:11–134 matched frames1 pivot

Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.

A 11a All her people sigh as they search for bread; they have given their pleasant things for food to revive their soul.
- B 11b to relieve the soul.
  - C 11c See, O LORD, and consider,
    - D 11d consider; for I am become vile.
      - E 12a Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by?
    - D' 12b behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow.
  - C' 12c the sorrow done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted me in the day of his fierce anger.
- B' 13a He hath spread a net for my feet; he hath turned me back.
A' 13b He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

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