How alone sits the city that was full of people! She has become like a widow, once great among the nations, a noblewoman among the nations, but now has become a tribute-payer.

What can I testify for you? What thing shall I compare to you, O daughter of Jerusalem? What shall I equal to you, so that I may comfort you, O virgin daughter of Zion? For your break is great like the sea! Who can heal you?

Jehovah is good to those who wait for Him, to the soul who seeks Him.

Those who ate delicacies are desolate in the streets; those reared in scarlet embrace dunghills.