Holy Scripture
Lamentations 5:17
A church father on this verse
“Second, is the glory of the temple. Here sadness is placed upon it. That is, due to a multitude of tears. For, as the prophet Jeremiah 8:18 declares: "My grief is beyond healing, my heart is sick within me."”
Source: Septuagint
Original
17For this has grief come; our heart is sorrowful: For this our eyes are darkened.
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15The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
16The crown has fallen from our head: Yea, woe to us! for we have sinned.
— Lamentations 5:17 —
18Over the mountain of Zion, because it is made desolate, Foxes have walked therein.
19But thou, O Lord, shalt dwell forever; Thy throne shall endure to generation and generation.