Holy Scripture
Lamentations 4:12
A church father on this verse
“Here is shown the fact (of the destruction) to be awesome. Since, first it was incredible. As said: "The kings of the earth did not believe or any of the inhabitants of the world," That is, since there had been powerful kings over this city, Jerusalem. And: "that foe": openly violent, or "enemy": falsely hidden. As Is…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
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.
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10The hands of tenderhearted women Have sodden their own children: They became meat for them In the destruction of the daughter of my people.
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.
— Lamentations 4:12 —
13For the sins of her prophets, And iniquities of her priests, Who shed righteous blood In the midst of her,
14Her watchmen staggered in the streets, They were defiled with blood in their weakness, They touched their raiment with it.