TSK · Lamentations 1:7

Or has God tried to go and take him a nation from the midst of [another] nation, by trials, by signs, and by wonders, and by war, and by a mighty hand, and by an outstretched arm, and by great terrors, according to all that Yahweh your God did for you in Egypt before your eyes?

"Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;

I remember God, and I groan. I complain, and my spirit is overwhelmed. Selah.

We have become a reproach to our neighbors, a scoffing and derision to those who are around us.

He shows his word to Jacob; his statutes and his ordinances to Israel.

Your holy cities are become a wilderness, Zion is become a wilderness, Jerusalem a desolation.

All that pass by clap their hands at you. They hiss and wag their head at the daughter of Jerusalem, [saying], Is this the city that men called The perfection of beauty, The joy of the whole earth?

and tell the children of Ammon, Hear the word of the Lord Yahweh: Thus says the Lord Yahweh, Because you said, Aha, against my sanctuary, when it was profaned; and against the land of Israel, when it was made desolate; and against the house of Judah, when they went into captivity:

She will follow after her lovers, but she won't overtake them; and she will seek them, but won't find them. Then she will say, 'I will go and return to my first husband; for then was it better with me than now.'

But when he came to himself he said, 'How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough to spare, and I'm dying with hunger!