The roads to Zion mourn,
    for none come to (A)the festival;
(B)all her gates are desolate;
    her priests (C)groan;
her virgins have been afflicted,[a]
    and she herself suffers bitterly.

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Footnotes

  1. Lamentations 1:4 Septuagint, Old Latin dragged away

He has laid waste his booth like a garden,
    laid in ruins (A)his meeting place;
(B)the Lord has made Zion forget
    festival and (C)Sabbath,
and in his fierce indignation has spurned king and priest.

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