The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from King James Bible: LAM 1:5 Her adversaries are the chief, her enemies prosper; for the
LORD hath afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions: her
children are gone into captivity before the enemy.
LAM 1:6 And from the daughter of Zion all her beauty is departed: her
princes are become like harts that find no pasture, and they are gone
without strength before the pursuer.
LAM 1:7 Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and of her
miseries all her pleasant things that she had in the days of old, when
her people fell into the hand of the enemy, and none did help her: the
adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths.
LAM 1:8 Jerusalem hath grievously sinned; therefore she is removed: all
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