The Book of Lamentations

“How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nati…”

“She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks: among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her: all h…”

“Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude: she dwelleth among the heathen, she …”

“The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate: her priests sigh, her vir…”

“Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressi…”

“And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and th…”