...afflicting widowhood — well has the inspired prophet Jeremiah represented thy destitute condition. " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!...was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks;...

...afflicting widowhood — well has the inspired prophet Jeremiah represented thy destitute condition. " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!...was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks...

...am informed, (on being bathed when ten days old,) with the soot of a brass lamp. Lamentations, i. 1. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people!...was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! It appears that on the occasion referred to, a coin was struck,...

..." woman forsaken and grieved in spirit," but an eloquent paraphrase of the opening of Lamentations: "How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of...was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary! she weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks:...

...the eagle of the heaven, they pursued upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people...was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces! Her tears are on her cheeks, among all her lovers she hath none to comfort her, all her...

...more pathetic than the lamentations of Jeremiah over the desolations of Judah and the holy land. " How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people ! how is she become as a widow ! . . . The ways of Zion do mourn, because none come to the solemn feasts ; all her gates are desolate."...

...state, and listen to the cry of its unfortunate remnant, without exclaiming in the words of Jeremiah, " How is she become as a widow ; she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces ! How is she become tributary !" the rock; and, accordingly, drank three bumpers of excellent...

...and I will cause them to return to the land which I gave to their fathers, and they shall possess it. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people...was great among the nations and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary ! All that pass by clap their hands at thee : they hiss and...

...more doleful and melancholy event, their adequate object, and their true and perfect completion. " How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people!...was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!" " O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance ; thy...

...contumely, and the degradation, which they were doomed to endure in the land of their conquerors. " How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people...was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, is become tributary ! She weepeth sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks ! Judah...