Lamentations 5:16-18

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

¹⁶The crown has fallen from our head;
    woe to us, for we have sinned!
¹⁷For this our heart has become sick,
    for these things our eyes have grown dim,
¹⁸for Mount Zion which lies desolate;
    jackals prowl over it.

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