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When thou reachest Babylon, he told Saraias, be sure thou readest all this. (Jeremiah 51, 61)
Sedecias was twenty-one years old when he came to the throne,✻ and his reign at Jerusalem lasted eleven years; his mother’s name was Amital, daughter of Jeremias of Lobna. (Jeremiah 52, 1)
for gold, too, and for silver, bowl and censer and urn and basin and lamp-stand and spoon and goblet; nothing did Nabuzardan leave behind him. (Jeremiah 52, 19)
Grievous the memories she holds, of the hour when all her ancient glories passed from her, when her people fell defenceless before the invader, unresisting before an enemy that derided them.✻ (Lamentations 1, 7)
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)
Far away is my old contentment, happier days forgotten; (Lamentations 3, 17)
All dim, now, and discoloured, the gold that once shone so fair! Heaped up at every street-corner lie hallowed stones. (Lamentations 4, 1)
Protection the Lord gives them no longer, they are dispersed under his frown; the priesthood no honour claims, old age no pity.✻ (Lamentations 4, 16)
never an old man left to sit at the gate, or a young man to wake the echoes of the harp; (Lamentations 5, 14)
grown old in exile, unclean as a dead body, no more taken into account than men who have gone down into their graves? (Baruch 3, 11)
heaping up silver and gold, man’s confidence, man’s interminable quest? How anxiously they toiled for wealth! And now these devices of theirs are beyond our tracing. (Baruch 3, 18)
even the sons of Agar, so well schooled in earthly wisdom, even the merchants of Merrha and Theman, with all their store of legend, their skill and cunning laboriously gained, never found the track of true wisdom, or told us what its haunts were. (Baruch 3, 23)
