...found inspiration for this dance in the Old Testament book of Lamentations, which begins "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! How is she become as a widow."78 The city, Jerusalem, here personified as a woman, is in mourning for its now-enslaved citizens....

...first two-thirds of verse: "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people [rabbati 'am\\ How is she become as a widow! She that was great among the nations [rabbati ba-goyyim], and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!" (Lamentations...

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...correctly, that this female depiction of London alludes to the biblical distress of Jerusalem: 'How does 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...

...but no one responded to the message he preached. In Lamentations 1:1 we read these words: "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...

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...people's hearts back to the God of their fathers cry out in the bitter anguish of his soul, "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow!" (Lam. 1:1). Her judgment had come, because of her unfaithfulness to her Lord (39:8). The remnant who...

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