"Jerusalem remembers her days of misery and distress; when her people fell into the enemy's clutches there was no one …"

"My eyes are worn out with weeping, my inmost being is in ferment, my heart plummets at the destruction of my young pe…"

"Yahweh is good to those who trust him, to all who search for him."

"The very jackals give the breast, and suckle their young: but the daughter of my people is as cruel as the ostriches …"

"For the wickedness of the daughter of my people exceeded the sins of Sodom, which was overthrown in a moment without …"

"Once her young people were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; rosier than coral their bodies, their hue like sapph…"

"The breath of our nostrils, Yahweh's anointed, was caught in their traps, he of whom we said, 'In his shadow we shall…"

"Our skin is as hot as an oven, from the scorch of famine."

"There is death in the pot."

"He shall know that there is a prophet in Israel."