Lamentations 1:1 (WEB)
How the city sits solitary, that was full of people! She has become as a widow, who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave!
Fathers and councils · 2
Gregory of Nazianzus
“O what Jeremiah will bewail our confusion and blind madness; he alone could utter lamentations befitting our misfortunes.” — editor's note: Lam. i. 1.
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Clement of Alexandria
“She that ruled over territories became as a widow; she came under tribute; weeping, she wept in the night.”” — editor's note: Lam. i. 1, 2.
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