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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)
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)
Upon him, the eternal, I pin evermore my hopes of your happiness, the holy God, evermore our deliverer! Light grows my heart, to think of the mercy he has in store for you. (Baruch 4, 22)
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)
sons of thine, in many lands lost to thee, gathered by his call from east to west shall come back again, praising joyfully God’s holy will. (Baruch 4, 37)
Up, Jerusalem, to the heights! Look to the sun’s rising, and see if thy sons be not coming to thee, gathered from east to west, joyfully acknowledging God’s holy will! (Baruch 5, 5)
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)
A third of it thou shalt set alight and burn up within this city of thine, when the days of its besieging are over; a third thou shalt cut to pieces with the blade thou carriest, round about it; and a third thou shalt scatter to the winds, for my unsheathed sword to go in pursuit. (Ezekiel 5, 2)
