4. Now I plan not to return to the city but to stay here, and I will neither eat nor drink but lament and fast without ceasing, until I die."
5. I abandoned the thoughts that had preoccupied me and responded to her in anger:
6. "Most foolish of all women, don’t you see our grief and what has befallen us?
7. Zion the mother of us all is afflicted in sadness and utterly dejected. Grieve mightily