How Lonely Sits the City

(A)How lonely sits the city
    that was full of people!
How like (B)a widow has she become,
    she who was great among the nations!
She who was (C)a princess among the provinces
    has become (D)a slave.

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26 And (A)her gates shall lament and mourn;
    empty, she shall (B)sit on the ground.

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20 And mighty kings have been over Jerusalem, (A)who ruled over the whole province Beyond the River, to whom (B)tribute, custom, and toll were paid.

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21 [a] (A)Solomon ruled over all the kingdoms from the (B)Euphrates[b] to the land of the Philistines and to the border of Egypt. (C)They brought tribute and served Solomon all the days of his life.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Kings 4:21 Ch 5:1 in Hebrew
  2. 1 Kings 4:21 Hebrew the River

16 “Alas, alas, for the great city
    (A)that was clothed in fine linen,
        in purple and scarlet,
    adorned with gold,
        with jewels, and with pearls!
17 For (B)in a single hour all this wealth (C)has been laid waste.”

And (D)all shipmasters and seafaring men, sailors and all whose trade is on the sea, stood far off

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“Fear not, (A)for you will not be ashamed;
    be not confounded, for you will not be disgraced;
for you will forget the shame of your youth,
    and the reproach of your widowhood you will remember no more.

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15 This is the exultant city
    (A)that lived securely,
that said in her heart,
    “I am, and there is no one else.”
What a desolation she has become,
    (B)a lair for wild beasts!
(C)Everyone who passes by her
    hisses and (D)shakes his fist.

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16 (A)The crown has fallen from our head;
    woe to us, for we have sinned!

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you who are full of shoutings,
    tumultuous city, (A)exultant town?
Your slain are (B)not slain with the sword
    or dead in battle.

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35 And Jehoiakim (A)gave the silver and the gold to Pharaoh, but he taxed the land to give the money according to the command of Pharaoh. He exacted the silver and the gold of the people of the land, from everyone according to his assessment, to give it to Pharaoh Neco.

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(A)As she glorified herself and lived in luxury,
    so give her a like measure of torment and mourning,
since in her heart she says,
    (B)‘I sit as a queen,
I am no widow,
    and mourning I shall never see.’

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Thus says the Lord of hosts: (A)Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.

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16 Then all (A)the princes of the sea will step down from their thrones and (B)remove their robes and strip off their embroidered garments. They will clothe themselves with trembling; (C)they will sit on the ground and (D)tremble every moment and (E)be appalled at you.

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