[Sidenote:  Lam. 5:8-13]
Slaves have dominion over us,
With none to deliver from their hand. 
We get our bread at the peril of our lives,
Because of the sword of the wilderness. 
Our skin becomes hot like an oven,
Because of the glowing heat of famine. 
They ravish the women in Zion,
The virgins in the cities of Judah. 
Princes are hanged up by the hand,
The person of the elders is not honored. 
The young men bear up the mill,
And the children stumble under the wood.

[Sidenote:  Lam. 5:14-18]
The elders have ceased from the gate,
The young men from their music. 
The joy of our heart has ceased,
Our dance is turned into mourning. 
The crown has fallen from our head;
Woe to us! for we have sinned.

For this reason our heart is faint,
For these causes our eyes are dim;
For the mountain of Zion is desolate;
The jackals walk over it.

[Sidenote:  Jer. 43:8-12] The word of Jehovah also came to Jeremiah in Tahpanhes, saying, Take great stones in thy hand, and bury them in the loose foundation in the brick-covered place before Pharaoh’s palace door in Tahpanhes in the sight of the men of Judah; and say to them, ’Thus saith, Jehovah hosts, the God of Israel, “Behold, I will send and bring Nebuchadrezzar the king of Babylon, my servant, and will set his throne upon these stones that you have buried, and he shall spread his royal pavilion over them.  And he shall come and shall smite the land of Egypt; such as are for death shall be given to death, and such as are for captivity shall be given to captivity, and such as are for the sword shall be given to the sword.  And he will kindle a fire in the houses of the gods of Egypt, and will burn them and carry them away.  And he shall wrap himself in the land of Egypt, as a shepherd puts on his mantle, and shall go forth from there in peace.  He shall also break the obelisks of Heliopolis and the temples of the gods of Egypt shall he burn with fire."’

[Sidenote:  Jer. 44:1-10] The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the Jews who dwelt in the land of Egypt, who dwelt at Migdol, Tahpanhes, Memphis, and in upper Egypt, saying, Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, the God of Israel, ’Ye have seen all the evil that I have brought upon Jerusalem and upon all the cities of Judah; and behold, they are this day a desolation, and no man dwelleth in them, because of their wickedness which they have committed to provoke me to anger in that they went to offer sacrifices to other gods, that they knew not, neither they nor ye, nor your fathers.  However, I constantly sent to them all my servants the prophets, saying, “Oh, do not this abominable thing that I hate.”  But they neither hearkened nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to offer no sacrifice to other gods.  And so my wrath and mine anger was poured forth and was kindled against the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem, and they were