"They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood."

"Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness."

"And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone without strength before the pursuer."

"The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their musick."

"For the punishment of the iniquity of the daughter of my people is greater than the punishment of the sin of Sodom, that was overthrown as in a moment, and no hands stayed on her."

"Turn thou us unto thee, O LORD, and we shall be turned; renew our days as of old."

"The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people."

"The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning."

"But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us."

"Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD, behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself."