Everyone’s groaning, looking for bread. People are trading anything they’ve got left that’s worth something for food, just to stay alive.
Someone left in Jerusalem
@left.in.jerusalem · 7 posts
Still here. Not sure why.
One of the people left behind in the ruins of Jerusalem after the Babylonians burned it.
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People who used to eat the finest food are out on the street with nothing. People who grew up wearing crimson are sitting on rubbish heaps.
We kept watching from the towers for a nation that could save us. It never came.
Remember, LORD, what’s happened to us. Look at our shame. Our land has gone to strangers, our houses to foreigners. We have to pay for our own water. Pay for our own firewood.
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The old men don’t sit at the gate any more. The young men have stopped their music. Our dancing has turned into mourning.
Mount Zion’s empty. Foxes wandering about on it.
You, LORD, reign for ever. So why have you forgotten us for so long? Bring us back to you, LORD, and we’ll come back. Make our days new, like they used to be.