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 * doth the city sit solitary,
 * That was full of people!
 * How is she become as a widow!
 * She that was great among the nations,
 * And princess among the provinces,
 * How is she become tributary!
 * She weepeth sore in the night,
 * And her tears are on her cheeks;
 * She hath none to comfort her
 * Among all her lovers;
 * All her friends have dealt treacherously with her,
 * They are become her enemies.
 * Judah is gone into exile because of affliction,
 * And because of great servitude;
 * She dwelleth among the nations,
 * She findeth no rest;
 * All her pursuers overtook her
 * Within the straits.
 * The ways of Zion do mourn,
 * Because none come to the solemn assembly;
 * All her gates are desolate,
 * Her priests sigh;
 * Her virgins are afflicted,
 * And she herself is in bitterness.
 * Her adversaries are become the head,
 * Her enemies are at ease;
 * For the hath afflicted her
 * For the multitude of her transgressions;
 * Her young children are gone into captivity
 * Before the adversary.
 * And gone is from the daughter of Zion
 * All her splendour;
 * Her princes are become like harts
 * That find no pasture,
 * And they are gone without strength
 * Before the pursuer.


 * Jerusalem remembereth
 * In the days of her affliction and of her anguish
 * All her treasures that she had
 * From the days of old;
 * Now that her people fall by the hand of the adversary,
 * And none doth help her,
 * The adversaries have seen her,
 * They have mocked at her desolations.
 * Jerusalem hath grievously sinned,
 * Therefore she is become as one unclean;
 * All that honoured her despise her,
 * Because they have seen her nakedness;
 * She herself also sigheth,
 * And turneth backward.
 * Her filthiness was in her skirts,
 * She was not mindful of her end;
 * Therefore is she come down wonderfully,
 * She hath no comforter.
 * 'Behold, O, my affliction,
 * For the enemy hath magnified himself.'
 * The adversary hath spread out his hand
 * Upon all her treasures;
 * For she hath seen that the heathen
 * Are entered into her sanctuary,