Lamentations 1:1

“Then you will say in your heart, ‘Who has borne these for me? Indeed, I have been bereaved of my children And am barren, an exile and a wanderer. And who has reared these? Behold, I remained alone; From where did these come?’”

and said to Jeremiah the prophet, “Please let our supplication come before you, and pray for us to Yahweh your God, that is for all this remnant, because we remain but a few out of many, as your own eyes now see us,

“Thus says Lord Yahweh, ‘This is Jerusalem; I have set her at the center of the nations, with lands all around her.

Lamentations 1:1

Zion Lays Desolate

א Aleph