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Then Nabuzardan carried off the remnants of the people that were left in the city, the deserters who had gone over to Nabuchodonosor, and the common folk generally; (Jeremiah 52, 15)
and among the citizens, the chamberlain who commanded the army, seven other courtiers who were left in the city, the secretary who was charged with the army and had the levying of recruits, and sixty surviving citizens of the common sort. (Jeremiah 52, 25)
Alone she dwells, the city erewhile so populous; a widow now, once a queen among the nations; tributary now, that once had provinces at her command. (Lamentations 1, 1)
So false the friends that were once my suitors! And now the city lacks priests and elders both, that went begging their bread, to revive the heart in them. (Lamentations 1, 19)
Heedfully the Lord went about his work, to strip the inviolable city of her walls; exact his measuring-line, busy his hand with the task of overthrow, till wall and rampart should lament their common ruin. (Lamentations 2, 8)
Idly the gates of her sag towards earth, bars riven and rent; king and chieftain are far away, exiled among the heathen; tradition is dead, nor any prophet learns, in vision, the Lord’s will. (Lamentations 2, 9)
Openly the passers-by deride thee, poor maid; clap hands, and hiss, and wag their heads at thee; So much, they cry, for the city that was once the nonpareil of beauty, pride of the whole earth! (Lamentations 2, 15)
Little dreamed they, king and common folk the world over, that any assault of the foe should storm Jerusalem gates; (Lamentations 4, 12)
woe to every city that enslaved and harboured children of thine! (Baruch 4, 32)
the city that was once so populous, all its boasting gone, all its pride of yesterday turned into lament! (Baruch 4, 34)
And now, son of man, go and get thee a tile; set it before thee and make marks on it, to represent the city of Jerusalem. (Ezekiel 4, 1)
And therewithal get thee an iron cooking-pan, that shall make a ring of iron between thee and this city of thine; look closely as thou wilt, here is siege complete. So thou shalt beleaguer it; a sign, this, for the race of Israel. (Ezekiel 4, 3)
