Today is Tisha be-Av, a day of fasting in the Jewish calendar. It marks the destruction of the first temple by the Babylonians in 580 BC and the second temple by the Romans in 70 AD.
Lamentations 2:13-14 (NLT)
What can I say about you?
Who has ever seen such sorrow?
O daughter of Jerusalem,
to what can I compare your anguish?
O virgin daughter of Zion,
how can I comfort you?
For your wound is as deep as the sea.
Who can heal you?
Your prophets have said
so many foolish things, false to the core.
They did not save you from exile
by pointing out your sins.
Instead, they painted false pictures,
filling you with false hope.
O God,
You alone are true. Fill the eyes of the nation of Israel with pictures of truth and their hearts with hope. Amen.
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