TSK · Lamentations 1:7

Or hath God assayed to go [and] take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by temptations, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by a stretched out arm, and by great terrors, according to all that the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;

I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.

We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them that are round about us.

He sheweth his word unto Jacob, his statutes and his judgments unto Israel.

Thy holy cities are a wilderness, Zion is a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

All that pass by clap [their] hands at thee; they hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying, Is] this the city that [men] call The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

And say unto the Ammonites, Hear the word of the Lord GOD; Thus saith the Lord GOD; Because thou saidst, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity;

And she shall follow after her lovers, but she shall not overtake them; and she shall seek them, but shall not find [them]: then shall she say, I will go and return to my first husband; for then [was it] better with me than now.

‹And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!›