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.

He drove me into captivity and made me walk in darkness and not light.

He has caused my flesh and my skin to waste away;
He has shattered my bones.

He hath stopped up my ways with four square stones, and made my paths crooked.

He drew his bow and made me the target for his arrow.

He has given me my fill of bitter herbs and made me drunk with bitterness.

ו VavHe ground my teeth on gravel
and made me cower in the dust.