Lamentations 4:11
“Here is bewailed the captivity, and destruction of the city, (Jerusalem). So, first is considered the destruction itself, second, the wonder from this fact. As said in Verse 12: "The kings of the earth did not believe, or any of the inhabitants of the world, that foe or enemy could enter the gates of Jerusalem." Third…”
Source: Septuagint
11The Lord has accomplished his wrath; He has poured out his fierce anger, And has kindled a fire in Zion, And it has devoured her foundations.
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9The slain with the sword were better Than they that were slain with hunger: They have departed, Pierced through from want of the fruits of the field.
10The hands of tenderhearted women Have sodden their own children: They became meat for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
— Lamentations 4:11 —
12The kings of the earth, Even all that dwell in the world, Believed not that an enemy and oppressor would enter Through the gates of Jerusalem.
13For the sins of her prophets, And iniquities of her priests, Who shed righteous blood In the midst of her,