Lamentations 1:5-7

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⁵ The people's enemies rule them now.
Those who hate them have plenty.
The Lord has caused trouble for the people
because they did so many wrong things.^[a]
The enemies took the children away to work as slaves.
⁶ Zion is not beautiful any longer.
Her leaders are like animals without food.
They are too weak to run from their enemies.
⁷ Jerusalem's people are in trouble and they are away from their homes now.
So they remember the good things
that they had a long time ago.
When their enemies came, nobody was there with them.
Nobody helped them.
Their enemies laughed when they destroyed Jerusalem.