...yet I think favourably of the person, whose eye, like that of Job, " poureth out tears unto God." " She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on...all her friends have dealt treacherously with her." Even some of her companions, who rarely give each other much credit for sincerity, weep with her. One...

...more doleful and melancholy event, their adequate object, and their true and perfect completion. " How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!...among the provinces, how is she become tributary!" " O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy holy temple have they defiled ; they have...

...fallen "city become ridow; she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces : among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her...all her friends have dealt treacherously with her. The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts: all her gates are desolate : her...

...?" _ — Mose interrupted him with tears, and said, " How is she become a widow !" Wolff rejoined, " She that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary !" The Rabbi, weeping, exclaimed, " Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction : the ways of...

...procession then moved towards the abbey, whilst the clergy sung these words of the prophet Jeremiah : " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people...among the provinces, how is she become tributary!"* * Depping, torn. i. pp. 169—186. CHAPTER IX. First attempts to convert the North to Christianity....

...study in the Lamentations of Jeremiah, than in the writings of men. Hear him, and weep for Zion : " How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people...princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary ! The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts : all her gates are desolate :...

...contumely, and the degradation, which they were doomed to endure in the land of their conquerors. " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people...among the nations, and princess among the provinces, is become tributary ! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks ! Judah is gone...

...O Lord : but let them that love him be as the sun •when he goeth forth in his might ! LAM. i. 1. How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people...princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary ! LAM. iv. 1. How is the gold become dim ! how is the most fine gold changed .' the stones of the sanctuary...

...LAMENTATIONS, I. Jerusalem's misery for her sins : her complaint, and confession of God's righteous judgment. 1 How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people...widow ! she that was great among the nations, and princes among the provinces, how is she become tributary ! 2 She wecpeth sore in the night, and her...

...contagion by their numbers." What an affecting and even awful picture is this ! Well might it be said, " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow ! " (Lam. i. 1.) What thankfulness do we owe to Almighty God, that we have never witnessed such scenes...