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through Babylon so many slain in Israel, of Babylon so many slain, in every corner of their land! (Jeremiah 51, 49)
When Israel was brought into captivity, and Jerusalem left deserted, the prophet Jeremias sat down there and wept, with this mournful lamentation following. And as he spoke, ever he sighed and moaned in the bitterness of his heart. (Lamentations 1, 0)
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)
Crushed lay all the defences of Israel, under his displeasure; failed us, at the enemy’s onset, the protection of his right hand; Jacob must be hedged about, as by flames of a consuming fire. (Lamentations 2, 3)
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)
That is why the Lord our God has made good his threats against us; against the rulers of Israel, whether kings or nobles, and against the common folk of Israel and Juda. (Baruch 2, 1)
Lord God of Israel, whose constraining hand rescued thy people from Egypt with portents and wonders, with sovereign power signally manifested, and won thee renown that is thine yet, (Baruch 2, 11)
prove to the whole world that thou art the Lord our God, that it was thy name Israel bore, and Israel’s race yet bears. (Baruch 2, 15)
As for the temple that was the shrine of thy name, thou madest it into the thing it is this day, for Israel’s sin, for Juda’s sin. (Baruch 2, 26)
And merciful was the promise thou didst make to thy servant Moses, when thou badest him write down thy law for Israel’s acceptance. (Baruch 2, 28)
A fresh covenant I will make with them, that shall last for ever; I their God, and they my people; never again will I banish my people, the sons of Israel, from the land I have made theirs. (Baruch 2, 35)
Lord Almighty, God of Israel, here be lives in jeopardy, here be troubled hearts, that plead with thee! (Baruch 3, 1)
