Lamentations 1:5-7

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⁵Its opponents are now in control.
    Its enemies have no worries.
    Yahweh made Zion suffer for its many rebellious acts.
    Its children go ahead of their opponents into captivity.
⁶All splendor has abandoned the people of Zion.
    Its influential people were like deer that couldn’t find any pasture.
        They ran without any strength ahead of the hunters.

⁷“Now, during its suffering and oppression,
    Jerusalem remembers all the treasures it had from ancient times,
        when its people fell into the power of their enemies
            with no one to help them.
    Their opponents looked on, and they laughed at Jerusalem’s downfall.

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