Jerusalem keeps in mind, in the days of her sorrow and of her wanderings, all the desired things which were hers in days gone by; when her people came into the power of her hater and she had no helper, her attackers saw their desire effected on her and made sport of her destruction.

My voice came to you; let not your ear be shut to my breathing, to my cry.

You came near in the day when I made my prayer to you: you said, Have no fear.

The lips of those who came up against me, and their thoughts against me all the day.