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18 So I say, “My splendor is gone and all that I had hoped from the LORD.”

22 Because of the LORD’s great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.

51 What I see brings grief to my soul because of all the women of my city.

4 We must buy the water we drink; our wood can be had only at a price.

25 The LORD is good to those whose hope is in him, to the one who seeks him;

38 Is it not from the mouth of the Most High that both calamities and good things come?

9 We get our bread at the risk of our lives because of the sword in the desert.

30 Let him offer his cheek to one who would strike him, and let him be filled with disgrace.

3 Even jackals offer their breasts to nurse their young, but my people have become heartless like ostriches in the desert.

10 With their own hands compassionate women have cooked their own children, who became their food when my people were destroyed.

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

5 Those who once ate delicacies are destitute in the streets. Those brought up in royal purple now lie on ash heaps.

7 Their princes were brighter than snow and whiter than milk, their bodies more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like lapis lazuli.

16 The LORD himself has scattered them; he no longer watches over them. The priests are shown no honor, the elders no favor.

17 Moreover, our eyes failed, looking in vain for help; from our towers we watched for a nation that could not save us.

10 The enemy laid hands on all her treasures; she saw pagan nations enter her sanctuary— those you had forbidden to enter your assembly.

6 All the splendor has departed from Daughter Zion. Her princes are like deer that find no pasture; in weakness they have fled before the pursuer.

6 The punishment of my people is greater than that of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment without a hand turned to help her.

13 But it happened because of the sins of her prophets and the iniquities of her priests, who shed within her the blood of the righteous.

14 Now they grope through the streets as if they were blind. They are so defiled with blood that no one dares to touch their garments.