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The Sorrows of Jerusalem

(A)How lonely lies Jerusalem, once so full of people!
    Once honored by the world, she is now like a widow;
    The noblest of cities has fallen into slavery.

All night long she cries; tears run down her cheeks.
    Of all her former friends, not one is left to comfort her.
    Her allies have betrayed her and are all against her now.

Judah's people are helpless slaves, forced away from home.[a]
    They live in other lands, with no place to call their own—
    Surrounded by enemies, with no way to escape.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:3 are helpless … home; or fled from home, from the misery of slavery.

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