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Jerusalem sinned terribly, so she has become unclean. Those who honored her now hate her, because they have seen her nakedness. She groans and turns away.

She made herself dirty by her sins and did not think about what would happen to her. Her defeat was surprising, and no one could comfort her. She says, " Lord , see how I suffer, because the enemy has won."

"I cry about these things; my eyes overflow with tears. There is no one near to comfort me, no one who can give me strength again. My children are left sad and lonely, because the enemy has won."

"Look at me, Lord . I am upset and greatly troubled. My heart is troubled, because I have been so stubborn. Out in the streets, the sword kills; inside the houses, death destroys.

"Look at all their evil. Do to them what you have done to me because of all my sins. I groan over and over again, and I am afraid."

My eyes have no more tears, and I am sick to my stomach. I feel empty inside, because my people have been destroyed. Children and babies are fainting in the streets of the city.

Streams of tears flow from my eyes, because my people are destroyed.

Those who were killed in the war were better off than those killed by hunger. They starve in pain and die, because there is no food from the field.

It happened because her prophets sinned and her priests did evil. They killed in the city those who did what was right.

Our ancestors sinned against you, but they are gone; now we suffer because of their sins.

The crown has fallen from our head. How terrible it is because we sinned.

Because of this we are afraid, and now our eyes are dim.

Wherever the spirit would go, the living creatures would go. And the wheels were lifted up beside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

When the living creatures moved, the wheels moved. When the living creatures stopped, the wheels stopped. And when the living creatures were lifted from the ground, the wheels were lifted beside them, because the spirit of the living creatures was in the wheels.

You, human, don't be afraid of the people or their words. Even though they may be like thorny branches and stickers all around you, and though you may feel like you live with poisonous insects, don't be afraid. Don't be afraid of their words or their looks, because they are a people who turn against me.

But speak my words to them. They may listen, or they may not, because they turn against me.

But the people of Israel will not be willing to listen to you, because they are not willing to listen to me. Yes, all the people of Israel are stubborn and will not obey.

If you warn the wicked and they do not turn from their wickedness or their evil ways, they will die because of their sin. But you will have saved your life.

"Again, those who do right may turn away from doing good and do evil. If I make something bad happen to them, they will die. Because you have not warned them, they will die because of their sin, and the good they did will not be remembered. But I will hold you responsible for their deaths.

But if you have warned those good people not to sin, and they do not sin, they will surely live, because they believed the warning. And you will have saved your life."