TSK · Lamentations 1:7

Or has God ever before tried to deliver a nation from the middle of another nation, accompanied by judgments, signs, wonders, war, strength, power, and other very terrifying things like the LORD your God did for you in Egypt before your very eyes?

“O that I could be as I was in the months now gone, in the days when God watched over me,

I said,“I will remember God while I groan; I will think about him while my strength leaves me.”(Selah)

We have become an object of disdain to our neighbors; those who live on our borders taunt and insult us.

He proclaims his word to Jacob, his statutes and regulations to Israel.

Your chosen cities have become a wilderness; Zion has become a wilderness, Jerusalem, a desolate ruin.

ס(Samek) All who passed by on the road clapped their hands to mock you. They sneered and shook their heads at Daughter Jerusalem.“Ha! Is this the city they called‘The perfection of beauty, the source of joy of the whole earth!’?”

Say to the Ammonites,‘Hear the word of the Sovereign LORD: This is what the Sovereign LORD says: You said“Aha!” about my sanctuary when it was desecrated, about the land of Israel when it was made desolate, and about the house of Judah when they went into exile.

Then she will pursue her lovers, but she will not catch them; she will seek them, but she will not find them. Then she will say,“I will go back to my husband, because I was better off then than I am now.”

But when he came to his senses he said,‘How many of my father’s hired workers have food enough to spare, but here I am dying from hunger!