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A desert, the city thy chosen servant knew, a desert, the Sion we love; Jerusalem lies forlorn. (Isaiah 64, 10)
Never till now was such a tale heard, such a sight witnessed; should a nation’s pangs come upon it in a day, a whole people be born at once? Such are the pangs of Sion, such is the birth of her children. (Isaiah 66, 8)
Wandering hearts, the Lord bids you come back to him, and renew your troth; by ones and twos, from this city or that, from this clan or that, he will claim you for his own and bring you back to Sion; (Jeremiah 3, 14)
Raise the standard in Sion, and rally to it with all haste! Here is peril I am bringing upon you from the north country, here is great calamity. (Jeremiah 4, 6)
Cries of anguish I hear, as from a woman in the throes of travail; it is queen Sion, gasping out her life, and crying with hands outspread, Woe is me, I swoon away, here in the slaughter-house! (Jeremiah 4, 31)
Poor Sion, all too fair she seems, all too delicate! (Jeremiah 6, 2)
Arrow and shield✻ they ply, and their hard hearts pity none; loud their battle-cry as the roaring of the sea. So they ride on, as warriors ride, poor Sion, thy enemies. (Jeremiah 6, 23)
So cries my own people in its distress from a country far away. Does the Lord dwell in Sion no longer? Is she forsaken by her king?And she? What of the idols, what of the alien gods that turned me into her enemy? (Jeremiah 8, 19)
Listen to Sion’s lament: Alas, what scathe, alas, what shame! Our land lies deserted, our homes in ruins! (Jeremiah 9, 19)
Hast thou abandoned Juda once for all, art thou weary of Sion? Past all healing thou hast wounded us; how we long for better times, and no relief comes to us, for remedy at last, and danger still threatens! (Jeremiah 14, 19)
Remember the prophet Michaeas of Morasthi, they said, in the days of king Ezechias, who told the people of Juda: Sion shall be no better than a ploughed field, says the Lord of hosts, Jerusalem but a heap of stones, the temple height only a hanging wood.✻ (Jeremiah 26, 18)
Poor Sion, thine is a wound past curing, a grievous hurt, the Lord says; (Jeremiah 30, 12)
