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Lamentations 1:1
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Worthless, Cheap, Abject!

1 Oh, oh, oh . . . 
How empty the city, once teeming with people.
    A widow, this city, once in the front rank of nations,
    once queen of the ball, she’s now a drudge in the kitchen.

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