Lamentations 1:6-8

Evangelical Heritage Version

⁶ The daughter of Zion^[a] has lost all her splendor.
    Her officials have become like deer that find no pasture.
    Powerless, they fled before^[b] the pursuer.
⁷ Jerusalem remembers the days of her affliction and her homeless wandering.
    She remembers all her precious things which were hers from long ago.
    When her people fell under the hand of the foe, there was no one to help her.
    Foes saw her and laughed at the end she has come to.
⁸ Jerusalem has sinned terribly, so she is unclean.^[c]
    All who once honored her now despise her, because they have seen her nakedness.
    She can only sigh and turn away.