11 How lonely sits the city That was full of people ! She has become like a widow Who was once great among the nations ! She who was a princess among the [1]provinces Has become a forced laborer ! 2 She weeps bitterly in the night And her tears are on her cheeks ; She has none to comfort her Among all her lovers . All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; They have become her enemies . 3 Judah has gone into exile [2]under affliction And [2]under [4]harsh servitude ; She dwells among the nations , But she has found no rest ; All her pursuers have overtaken her In the midst of [5]distress . 4 The roads [6]of Zion are in mourning Because e no one comes to the appointed feasts . All her gates are desolate ; Her priests are groaning , Her virgins are afflicted , And she herself [7]is bitter . 5 Her adversaries have become [8]her masters , Her enemies [9]prosper ; For the Lord has caused her grief Because of the multitude of her transgressions ; Her little ones have gone away As captives before the adversary . 6 All her majesty Has departed from the daughter of Zion ; Her princes have become like deer That have found no pasture ; And they have [10] fled without strength Before the pursuer . 7 In the days of her affliction and homelessness Jerusalem remembers all her precious things That were from the days of old , When her people fell into the hand of the adversary And no one helped her. The adversaries saw her, They mocked at her [11]ruin . 8 Jerusalem sinned greatly , Therefore e she has become an unclean thing . All who honored her despise her Because they have seen her nakedness ; Even she herself groans and turns away . 9 Her uncleanness was in her skirts ; She [12]did not consider her future . Therefore she has [13] fallen astonishingly ; She has no comforter . " See , O Lord , my affliction , For the enemy has magnified himself!" 10 The adversary has stretched out his hand Over all her precious things , For she has seen the nations enter her sanctuary , The ones whom You commanded That they should not enter into Your congregation . 11 All her people groan seeking bread ; They have given their precious things for food To restore their [14]lives themselves. "See , O Lord , and look , For I am despised ."
12 "Is it nothing to all you who pass this way ? Look and see if there is any [15]pain like my [15]pain Which was severely dealt out to me, Which the Lord inflicted on the day of His fierce anger . 13 "From on high He sent fire into my bones , And it [17]prevailed over them. He has spread a net for my feet ; He has turned me back ; He has made me desolate , [18]Faint all day long. 14 "The yoke of my transgressions is bound ; By His hand they are knit together . They have come upon my neck ; He has made my strength [19]fail . The Lord has given me into the hands Of those against whom I am not able to stand . 15 "The Lord has rejected all my strong men In my midst ; He has called an appointed [20]time against me To crush my young men ; The Lord has trodden as in a wine press The virgin daughter of Judah . 16 "For these things I weep ; [21]My eyes run down with water ; Because far from me is a comforter , One who restores my soul . My children are desolate Because the enemy has prevailed ." 17 Zion stretches out her hands ; There is no one to comfort her; The Lord has commanded concerning Jacob That the ones round about him should be his adversaries ; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them. 18 "The Lord is righteous ; For I have rebelled against His [22]command ; Hear now , all peoples , And behold my [23]pain ; My virgins and my young men Have gone into captivity . 19 "I called to my lovers , but they deceived me; My priests and my elders perished in the city While they sought food to restore [24]their strength themselves. 20 "See , O Lord , for I am in distress ; My [25] spirit is greatly troubled ; My heart is overturned within me, For I have been very rebellious . In the street the sword [26]slays ; In the house it is like death . 21 "They have heard that I groan ; There is no one to comfort me; All my enemies have heard of my [27]calamity ; They are glad that You have done it. Oh, that You would bring the day which You have proclaimed , That they may become like me. 22 "Let all their wickedness come before You; And deal with them as You have dealt with me For all my transgressions ; For my groans are many and my heart is faint ."
21 How the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion With a cloud in His anger ! He has cast from heaven to earth The glory of Israel , And has not remembered His footstool e In the day of His anger . 2 The Lord has swallowed up; He has not spared All the habitations of Jacob . In His wrath He has thrown down The strongholds of the daughter of Judah ; He has brought them down to the ground ; He has profaned the kingdom and its princes . 3 In fierce anger He has cut off All the strength of Israel ; He has drawn back His right hand From before the enemy . And He has burned in Jacob like a flaming fire Consuming round about . 4 He has bent His bow like an enemy ; He has set His right hand like an adversary And slain all that were pleasant to the eye ; In the tent of the daughter of Zion He has poured out His wrath like fire . 5 The Lord has become like an enemy . He has swallowed up Israel ; He has swallowed up all its palaces , He has destroyed its strongholds And multiplied in the daughter of Judah Mourning and moaning . 6 And He has violently treated His tabernacle like a garden booth; He has destroyed His appointed meeting place . The Lord has caused to be forgotten The appointed feast and sabbath in Zion , And He has despised king and priest In the indignation of His anger . 7 The Lord has rejected His altar , He has abandoned His sanctuary ; He has delivered into the hand of the enemy The walls of her palaces . They have made a noise in the house of the Lord As in the day of an appointed feast . 8 The Lord determined to destroy The wall of the daughter of Zion . He has stretched out a line , He has not restrained His hand from destroying , And He has caused rampart and wall to lament ; They have languished together . 9 Her gates have sunk into the ground , He has destroyed and broken her bars . Her king and her princes are among the nations ; The law is no more . Also , her prophets find No vision from the Lord .
10 The elders of the daughter of Zion Sit on the ground , they are silent . They have thrown dust on their heads ; They have girded themselves with sackcloth . The virgins of Jerusalem Have bowed their heads to the ground . 11 My eyes fail because of tears , My spirit is greatly troubled ; My heart is poured out on the earth Because of the destruction of the daughter of my people , When little ones and infants faint In the streets of the city . 12 They say to their mothers , " Where is grain and wine ?" As they faint like a wounded man In the streets of the city , As their life is poured out On their mothers' bosom . 13 How shall I admonish you? To what shall I compare you, O daughter of Jerusalem ? To what shall I liken you as I comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion ? For your ruin is as vast as the sea ; Who can heal you? 14 Your prophets have seen for you False and foolish visions; And they have not exposed your iniquity So as to restore you from captivity , But they have seen for you false and misleading oracles . 15 All who pass along the way Clap their hands in derision at you; They hiss and shake their heads At the daughter of Jerusalem , "Is this the city of which they said , ' The perfection of beauty , A joy to all the earth '?" 16 All your enemies Have opened their mouths wide against you; They hiss and gnash their teeth . They say , "We have swallowed her up! Surely this is the day for which we waited ; We have reached it, we have seen it." 17 The Lord has done what He purposed ; He has accomplished His word Which He commanded from days of old . He has thrown down without sparing , And He has caused the enemy to rejoice over you; He has exalted the might of your adversaries . 18 Their heart cried out to the Lord , "O wall of the daughter of Zion , Let your tears run down like a river day and night ; Give yourself no relief , Let your eyes have no rest . 19 "Arise , cry aloud in the night At the beginning of the night watches ; Pour out your heart like water Before the presence of the Lord ; Lift up your hands to Him For the life of your little ones Who are faint because of hunger At the head of every street ." 20 See , O Lord , and look ! With whom have You dealt thus ? Should women eat their offspring , The little ones who were born healthy ? Should priest and prophet be slain In the sanctuary of the Lord ? 21 On the ground in the streets Lie young and old ; My virgins and my young men Have fallen by the sword . You have slain them in the day of Your anger , You have slaughtered , not sparing . 22 You called as in the day of an appointed feast My terrors on every side ; And there was no one who escaped or survived In the day of the Lord'S anger . Those whom I bore and reared , My enemy annihilated them.
101 For the Law , since it has only a shadow of the good things to come and not the very form of things , can never , by the same sacrifices which they offer continually year by year , make perfect those who draw near . 2 Otherwise , would they not have ceased to be offered , because the worshipers , having once been cleansed , would no longer have had consciousness of sins ? 3 But in those sacrifices there is a reminder of sins year by year . 4 For it is impossible for the blood of bulls and goats to take away sins . 5 Therefore , when He comes into the world , He says , " SACRIFICE AND OFFERING YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED , BUT A BODY YOU HAVE PREPARED FOR ME; 6 IN WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE TAKEN NO PLEASURE .
7 " THEN I SAID , 'BEHOLD , I HAVE COME (IN THE SCROLL OF THE BOOK IT IS WRITTEN TO DO YOUR WILL , O GOD .' " 8 After saying above , " SACRIFICES AND OFFERINGS AND WHOLE BURNT OFFERINGS AND sacrifices FOR SIN YOU HAVE NOT DESIRED , NOR HAVE YOU TAKEN PLEASURE in them" (which are offered according to the Law ), 9 then He said , " BEHOLD , I HAVE COME TO DO YOUR WILL ." He takes away the first in order to establish the second . 10 By this will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all . 11 Every priest stands daily e ministering and offering time after time the same sacrifices , which can never take away sins ; 12 but He, having offered one sacrifice for sins for all time , SAT DOWN AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD , 13 waiting from that time onward UNTIL HIS ENEMIES BE MADE A FOOTSTOOL FOR HIS FEET . 14 For by one offering He has perfected for all time those who are sanctified . 15 And the Holy Spirit also testifies to us; for after saying , 16 " THIS IS THE COVENANT THAT I WILL MAKE WITH THEM AFTER THOSE DAYS , SAYS THE Lord : I WILL PUT MY LAWS UPON THEIR HEART , AND ON THEIR MIND I WILL WRITE THEM," He then says, 17 " AND THEIR SINS AND THEIR LAWLESS DEEDS I WILL REMEMBER NO e MORE ." 18 Now where there is forgiveness of these things , there is no longer any offering for sin .
(Read Hebrews 10:1-10)
The apostle having shown that the tabernacle, and ordinances of the covenant of Sinai, were only emblems and types of the gospel, concludes that the sacrifices the high priests offered continually, could not make the worshippers perfect, with respect to pardon, and the purifying of their consciences. But when "God manifested in the flesh," became the sacrifice, and his death upon the accursed tree the ransom, then the Sufferer being of infinite worth, his free-will sufferings were of infinite value. The atoning sacrifice must be one capable of consenting, and must of his own will place himself in the sinner's stead: Christ did so. The fountain of all that Christ has done for his people, is the sovereign will and grace of God. The righteousness brought in, and the sacrifice once offered by Christ, are of eternal power, and his salvation shall never be done away. They are of power to make all the comers thereunto perfect; they derive from the atoning blood, strength and motives for obedience, and inward comfort.
(Read Hebrews 10:11-18)
Under the new covenant, or gospel dispensation, full and final pardon is to be had. This makes a vast difference between the new covenant and the old one. Under the old, sacrifices must be often repeated, and after all, only pardon as to this world was to be obtained by them. Under the new, one Sacrifice is enough to procure for all nations and ages, spiritual pardon, or being freed from punishment in the world to come. Well might this be called a new covenant. Let none suppose that human inventions can avail those who put them in the place of the sacrifice of the Son of God. What then remains, but that we seek an interest in this Sacrifice by faith; and the seal of it to our souls, by the sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience? So that by the law being written in our hearts, we may know that we are justified, and that God will no more remember our sins.
