From 9a39da15012067fb7cc2966d219942d1f409ac7b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Patrick Kingston Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2026 23:43:14 -0500 Subject: Start work on encoding bible - Get bible text - Write code to generate huffman encoding --- bible/base_files/engBBE_026_LAM_05_read.txt | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 24 insertions(+) create mode 100644 bible/base_files/engBBE_026_LAM_05_read.txt (limited to 'bible/base_files/engBBE_026_LAM_05_read.txt') diff --git a/bible/base_files/engBBE_026_LAM_05_read.txt b/bible/base_files/engBBE_026_LAM_05_read.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69dd7e1 --- /dev/null +++ b/bible/base_files/engBBE_026_LAM_05_read.txt @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Lamentations. +Chapter 5. +Keep in mind, O Lord, what has come to us: take note and see our shame. +Our heritage is given up to men of strange lands, our houses to those who are not our countrymen. +We are children without fathers, our mothers are like widows. +We give money for a drink of water, we get our wood for a price. +Our attackers are on our necks: overcome with weariness, we have no rest. +We have given our hands to the Egyptians and to the Assyrians so that we might have enough bread. +Our fathers were sinners and are dead; and the weight of their evil-doing is on us. +Servants are ruling over us, and there is no one to make us free from their hands. +We put our lives in danger to get our bread, because of the sword of the waste land. +Our skin is heated like an oven because of our burning heat from need of food. +They took by force the women in Zion, the virgins in the towns of Judah. +Their hands put princes to death by hanging: the faces of old men were not honoured. +The young men were crushing the grain, and the boys were falling under the wood. +The old men are no longer seated in the doorway, and the music of the young men has come to an end. +The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow. +The crown has been taken from our head: sorrow is ours, for we are sinners. +Because of this our hearts are feeble; for these things our eyes are dark; +Because of the mountain of Zion which is a waste; jackals go over it. +You, O Lord, are seated as King for ever; the seat of your power is eternal. +Why have we gone from your memory for ever? why have you been turned away from us for so long? +Make us come back to you, O Lord, and let us be turned; make our days new again as in the past. +But you have quite given us up; you are full of wrath against us. -- cgit v1.2.3