Lamentations 1:5; Lamentations 2:10; Lamentations 2:15; Lamentations 2:19; Lamentations 3:54; Lamentations 4:1; Lamentations 5:16

Lamentations 1:5

5 Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease. The LORD has brought her grief because of her many sins. Her children have gone into exile, captive before the foe.

Lamentations 2:10

10 The elders of Daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have sprinkled dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

Lamentations 2:15

15 All who pass your way clap their hands at you; they scoff and shake their heads at Daughter Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of the whole earth?”

Lamentations 2:19

19 Arise, cry out in the night, as the watches of the night begin; pour out your heart like water in the presence of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your children, who faint from hunger at every street corner.

Lamentations 3:54

54 the waters closed over my head, and I thought I was about to perish.

Lamentations 4:1

1 How the gold has lost its luster, the fine gold become dull! The sacred gems are scattered at every street corner.

Lamentations 5:16

16 The crown has fallen from our head. Woe to us, for we have sinned!