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• Enemies he counts us, and has engulfed the whole of Israel in ruin; gone the palaces, gone the strongholds; Alas, poor Sion! weeps man, weeps maid, with cowed spirits.✻ (Lamentations 2, 5)

• Fallen, as it had been some garden shed, his own tabernacle; his own trysting-place with men he would pull down! Feast-day and sabbath should be forgotten in Sion; for king and priest, only anger and scorn. (Lamentations 2, 6)

• Might I but confront thee with such another as thyself! What queen so unhappy as Jerusalem, what maid as Sion desolate? How shall I comfort thee? Sea-deep is thy ruin, and past all cure. (Lamentations 2, 13)

• Round those inviolable defences, cry they upon the Lord in good earnest. Day and night, Sion, let thy tears stream down; never rest thou, never let that eye weary of its task.✻ (Lamentations 2, 18)

• Poor Sion, for thy calamity these cheeks are furrowed with tears; (Lamentations 3, 48)

• Bright they shone once in all their renown, the men of Sion, and now what are they? Little regarded as common earthenware, of the potter’s fashioning. (Lamentations 4, 2)

• Kindled at last is the Lord’s anger; rains down from heaven the storm of his vengeance, lighting a flame that burns Sion to the ground. (Lamentations 4, 11)

• Vengeful audit-day! Sion’s account closed, recovered her fortunes; Edom called to account, discovered her guilt! (Lamentations 4, 22)

• Never a woman in Sion, never a maid in all Juda’s cities, but has met with dishonour; (Lamentations 5, 11)

• What, does not the hill of Sion lie desolate, ravaged by the foxes? (Lamentations 5, 18)

• The trumpet, there, in Sion! On yonder mountain-height, my sanctuary, sound the alarm! Tremble, fellow-countrymen, one and all; the day of the Lord is coming, coming so soon. (Joel 2, 1)

• The trumpet, there, in Sion! Here is fasting proclaimed,✻ the citizens assembled; (Joel 2, 15)