"All our enemies have opened their mouths against us."

"Thou drewest near in the day that I called upon thee: thou saidst, Fear not."

"And I said, My strength and my hope is perished from the LORD:"

"They hunt our steps, that we cannot go in our streets: our end is near, our days are fulfilled; for our end is come."

"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."