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Lament over Zion"},{"type":"verse","number":1,"text":"Oh, that my head were a spring of water,\nand my eyes a fountain of tears!\nI would weep day and night\nover the slain daughter of my people.","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":40,"level":1},{"start":41,"end":73,"level":2},{"start":74,"end":100,"level":1},{"start":101,"end":138,"level":2}]},{"type":"verse","number":2,"text":"If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness,\nI would abandon my people and depart from them,\nfor they are all adulterers,\na crowd of faithless people.","footnotes":[],"poem":[{"start":0,"end":51,"level":1},{"start":52,"end":99,"level":2},{"start":100,"end":128,"level":1},{"start":129,"end":157,"level":2}]},{"type":"line_break"},{"type":"verse","number":3,"text":"“They bend their tongues like bows;\nlies prevail over truth in the land.\nFor they proceed from evil to evil,\nand they do not take Me into account,”declares the 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