...captivity. Then Jeremiah mourned the fulfillment of his prophecies and the desolation of Jerusalem: How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how...among the provinces, how is she become tributary! ... Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my...

...help but evoke Lamentation's haunting image of conquered Jerusalem: // / Am Not For My se I/ How doth the city sit solitary, That was full of people! How...among the provinces, How is she become tributary! Trying to raise the fallen spirits of his fellow Jews, Hess went far beyond condolence in his vision...

...V. 4b reads, "her priests sigh, her virgins are afflicted, and she is in bitternesse"; V. 2b reads, "among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her, all her friends have dealt treachreously with her, they are become her enemies." Notes. Ob MS Mus. Sch. e. 451 is the same as...

...nouvelles deportations. (49) i I Lamentations sound a similarly caustic impression of Jerusalem: 'How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become...

...and the foxes walk upon it: "How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people — how she is become as a widow! — she that was great among the nations, and princes among the provinces, how she is become tributary" (Lamentations 1:1-2). So, the traveler from...

...garments of sorrow and widowhood, spread hastily on his beloved city, lamented mournfully: "How does the city sit solitary that was full of people! How...among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weeps sore in the night. And her tears are on her cheeks; among all her lovers [or allies] she has...

...they are seeking to return Unto their Mother dear.58 The opening verse of Lamentations - "how doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how...among the provinces, how is she become tributary" - evokes the metaphor of the widow for the city of Jerusalem. Yet Mollineux drops the urban, royalist,...

...will rebuild the cities.) 1 This city [Jerusalem] shall remain for ever. Jeremiah 17:25. 2 How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! Lamentations 1:1 (Jerusalem after the Babylonian conquest.) 3 This city is the caldron, and we be the...

...the novel; Herrón 's epigraph is a quotation from the Old Testament Book of Lamentations: How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how...among the provinces, how is she become tributary! — Lamentations I:i25 Eva has had a vision of the fate of the city in the aftermath of her rape, a...

...-v. 18 onwards). The tears of Israel are often mentioned in the Psalms (so Smend). Cf. Lam. i. 2 (' She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks '). If the subject is understood to be the widow clause b may be rendered (so Hebr. text) : ' and she...