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Rh :Mine eyes do fail with tears,
 * Mine inwards burn,
 * My liver is poured upon the earth,
 * For the breach of the daughter of my people;
 * Because the young children and the sucklings swoon
 * In the broad places of the city.
 * They say to their mothers:
 * 'Where is corn and wine?'
 * When they swoon as the wounded
 * In the broad places of the city,
 * When their soul is poured out
 * Into their mothers' bosom.
 * What shall I take to witness for thee? what shall I liken to thee,
 * O daughter of Jerusalem?
 * What shall I equal to thee, that I may comfort thee,
 * O virgin daughter of Zion?
 * For thy breach is great like the sea;
 * Who can heal thee?
 * Thy prophets have seen visions for thee
 * Of vanity and delusion;
 * And they have not uncovered thine iniquity,
 * To bring back thy captivity;
 * But have prophesied for thee burdens
 * Of vanity and seduction.
 * All that pass by clap
 * Their hands at thee;
 * They hiss and wag their head
 * At the daughter of Jerusalem:
 * 'Is this the city that men called
 * The perfection of beauty,
 * The joy of the whole earth?'
 * All thine enemies have opened
 * Their mouth wide against thee;
 * They hiss and gnash the teeth;
 * They say: 'We have swallowed her up;
 * Certainly this is the day that we looked for;
 * We have found, we have seen it.'
 * The hath done that which He devised;
 * He hath performed His word
 * That He commanded in the days of old;
 * He hath thrown down unsparingly;
 * And He hath caused the enemy to rejoice over thee,
 * He hath exalted the horn of thine adversaries.


 * Their heart cried unto the Lord
 * 'O wall of the daughter of Zion,
 * Let tears run down like a river
 * Day and night;
 * Give thyself no respite;
 * Let not the apple of thine eye cease.
 * Arise, cry out in the night,
 * At the beginning of the watches;
 * Pour out thy heart like water
 * Before the face of the Lord;
 * Lift up thy hands toward Him
 * For the life of thy young children,
 * That faint for hunger
 * At the head of every street.'
 * 'See, O, and consider,
 * To whom Thou hast done thus!
 * Shall the women eat their fruit,
 * The children that are dandled in the hands?
 * Shall the priest and the prophet be slain
 * In the sanctuary of the Lord?
 * The youth and the old man lie
 * On the ground in the streets;
 * My virgins and my young men
 * Are fallen by the sword;
 * Thou hast slain them in the day of Thine anger;
 * Thou hast slaughtered unsparingly.
 * Thou hast called, as in the day of a solemn assembly,
 * My terrors on every side,
 * And there was none in the day of the anger
 * That escaped or remained;