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They cry to their mothers, "Where is bread and wine?" as they faint like wounded men in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out on their mothers' bosom. (Lamentations 2, 12)
All who pass along the way clap their hands at you; they hiss and wag their heads at the daughter of Jerusalem; "Is this the city which was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?" (Lamentations 2, 15)
my eyes cause me grief at the fate of all the maidens of my city. (Lamentations 3, 51)
The old men have quit the city gate, the young men their music. (Lamentations 5, 14)
Wretched will be the cities which your children served as slaves; wretched will be the city which received your sons. (Baruch 4, 32)
"And you, O son of man, take a brick and lay it before you, and portray upon it a city, even Jerusalem; (Ezekiel 4, 1)
And take an iron plate, and place it as an iron wall between you and the city; and set your face toward it, and let it be in a state of siege, and press the siege against it. This is a sign for the house of Israel. (Ezekiel 4, 3)
And you shall set your face toward the siege of Jerusalem, with your arm bared; and you shall prophesy against the city. (Ezekiel 4, 7)
A third part you shall burn in the fire in the midst of the city, when the days of the siege are completed; and a third part you shall take and strike with the sword round about the city; and a third part you shall scatter to the wind, and I will unsheathe the sword after them. (Ezekiel 5, 2)
The sword is without, pestilence and famine are within; he that is in the field dies by the sword; and him that is in the city famine and pestilence devour. (Ezekiel 7, 15)
and make a desolation. "Because the land is full of bloody crimes and the city is full of violence, (Ezekiel 7, 23)
Then he cried in my ears with a loud voice, saying, "Draw near, you executioners of the city, each with his destroying weapon in his hand." (Ezekiel 9, 1)
