The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: LAM 1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all
that honoured her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness:
yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward.
LAM 1:9 Her filthiness is in her skirts; she remembereth not her last
end; therefore she came down wonderfully: she had no comforter. O LORD,
behold my affliction: for the enemy hath magnified himself.
LAM 1:10 The adversary hath spread out his hand upon all her pleasant
things: for she hath seen that the heathen entered into her sanctuary,
whom thou didst command that they should not enter into thy
congregation.
LAM 1:11 All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their
 King James Bible |