In the days of her affliction and of her wanderings, since her people fell into the hand of an adversary, and none did help her, Jerusalem remembereth all her precious things which she had in the days of old: the adversaries have seen her, they mock at her ruin.

He hath made me to dwell in dark places as those that have been long dead.

Our eyes still failed for our vain help; in our watching, we have watched for a nation that did not save.