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.

(E)She weeps bitterly in the night,
    with tears on her cheeks;
(F)among all her lovers
    she has (G)none to comfort her;
(H)all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
    they have become her enemies.

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Jerusalem remembers
    in the days of her affliction and wandering
(A)all the precious things
    that were hers from (B)days of old.
When her people fell into the hand of the foe,
    and there was none to help her,
her foes gloated over her;
    they (C)mocked at her downfall.

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10 The enemy has stretched out his hands
    over all her (A)precious things;
for she has seen (B)the nations
    enter her sanctuary,
those whom you (C)forbade
    to enter your congregation.

11 All her people (D)groan
    as (E)they search for bread;
they trade their (F)treasures for (G)food
    to revive their strength.
“Look, O Lord, and see,
    for I am despised.”

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