And kept it as yours.
My countenance fell
Like Jerusalem did to Babylon.
And I lamented like
The prophet, Jeremiah.
For I had none to comfort me.
“I am gone into captivity
Under affliction
And hard servitude.”
My heart finds no rest
Because “my persecutor
Overtakes me in dire straits.”
You gave my love away to other women
And yet I let you in.
But you destroyed my temple
Taking every golden treasure
I had to offer, and giving it to idols.
At one point in time I reigned
As a “princess among the provinces”
Of your heart.
But now “I have become a slave.”
My mother “sent warnings”
But I “despised her words
And scoffed” at her teachings
Like Israel did God
As you transformed from my lover
To my enemy
And annihilated the sanctuary of my soul
“Till there was no remedy.”
Quotes from Jeremiah 12
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