How does the city sit lovely, that was full of people! how has she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how has she become a slave!

[It is of] Yahweh's loving kindnesses that we are not consumed, because his compassion doesn't fail.

For the Lord does not give a man up for ever.

For He does not afflict willingly and from His heart
Or grieve the children of men.

to defraud a person in a lawsuit -- the Lord does not approve of such things!

Who is this who speaks, and it occurs, when the Lord does not command it?

From the mouth of the Most High does not go out the evil and the good.

Why should any living mortal, or any man,
Complain [of punishment] in view of his sins?

My eye flows out and does not cease, from there being no intermission,

While we are, our eyes fail, for our help is vain; in our watching we have watched for a nation; it does not save.

Servants have ruled over us: there is none that does deliver us out of their hand.