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 * OW 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:
 * Among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her:
 * All her friends have dealt treacherously with her, they are become her enemies.
 * Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude:
 * She dwelleth among the heathen, she findeth no rest:
 * All her persecutors overtook her between the straits.
 * The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts:
 * All her gates are desolate: her priests sigh,
 * Her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitterness.
 * Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper;
 * For the Lord hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: