Meaningful Bible verses and quotes from Lamentations

Chapter 1 HOW doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! Chapter 2 HOW hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down from heaven unto the earth the beauty of Israel, and remembered not his footstool in the day of his anger! Chapter 3 I AM the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. Chapter 4 HOW is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the sanctuary are poured out in the top of every street. Chapter 5 REMEMBER, O LORD, what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.