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Lamentations 1:7

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Jerusalem remembers in the days of her affliction and wandering all the precious things that were hers from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was none to help her, her foes gloated over her; they mocked at her downfall.

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"Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

These things I remember, as I pour out my soul: how I would go with the throng and lead them in procession to the house of God with glad shouts and songs of praise, a multitude keeping festival.

When I remember God, I moan; when I meditate, my spirit faints. Selah

We have become a taunt to our neighbors, mocked and derided by those around us.

Your holy cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

Our holy and beautiful[4] house, where our fathers praised you, has been burned by fire, and all our pleasant places have become ruins.

"Thus says the LORD, God of Israel: Thus shall you say to the king of Judah who sent you to me to inquire of me, 'Behold, Pharaoh's army that came to help you is about to return to Egypt, to its own land.

Was not Israel a derision to you? Was he found among thieves, that whenever you spoke of him you wagged your head?

Our eyes failed, ever watching vainly for help; in our watching we watched for a nation which could not save.

Say to the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD: Thus says the Lord GOD, Because you said, 'Aha!' over my sanctuary when it was profaned, and over the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and over the house of Judah when they went into exile,

For thus says the Lord GOD: Because you have clapped your hands and stamped your feet and rejoiced with all the malice within your soul against the land of Israel,

She shall pursue her lovers but not overtake them, and she shall seek them but shall not find them. Then she shall say, 'I will go and return to my first husband, for it was better for me then than now.'

Now many nations are assembled against you, saying, "Let her be defiled, and let our eyes gaze upon Zion."

"But when he came to himself, he said, 'How many of my father's hired servants have more than enough bread, but I perish here with hunger!

But Abraham said, 'Child, remember that you in your lifetime received your good things, and Lazarus in like manner bad things; but now he is comforted here, and you are in anguish.




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