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That wide wall of Babylon, says the Lord of hosts, shall be dismantled at last, those high gates burnt. So men labour for nothing; so the toil of nations perishes in the fire.✻ (Jeremiah 51, 58)
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)
Alas, what mantle of cloud is this, the divine anger has thrown over unhappy Sion? The pride of Israel cast down from heaven to earth; the ground where the Lord’s feet once rested, now, in his anger, forgotten? (Lamentations 2, 1)
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)
Jerusalem’s aged folk sit there in the dust, dumb with sorrow; dust scattered over their heads, and sackcloth their garb; never a maid shall you see but has her head bowed down to earth. (Lamentations 2, 10)
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)
Untended they lie on the bare earth, the young and the aged; maid and warrior slain by the sword! This day of thy vengeance was to be all massacre, thou wouldst kill unsparingly. (Lamentations 2, 21)
Vanish from the earth their whole brood, ere thy vengeance leaves off pursuing them! (Lamentations 3, 66)
You shall pray long life for king Nabuchodonosor of Babylon, and his son Baltassar, that their reign on earth may last as long as heaven itself. (Baruch 1, 11)
Here was a threat made in the law of Moses, that went beyond all hitherto seen on earth, and yet in Jerusalem it came true; (Baruch 2, 2)
What has become of those heathen princes, who gained mastery of the beasts that roam the earth, (Baruch 3, 16)
a younger generation saw the light and peopled the earth in its turn; but still they could not find their way to the true wisdom, (Baruch 3, 20)
