Squares

And the people went out, brought back branches, and made booths on their own rooftops, in their courtyards, in the courts of the house of God, and in the squares by the Water Gate and by the Gate of Ephraim.

Why should your springs flow in the streets, your streams of water in the public squares?

Now in the street, now in the squares, she lurks at every corner.

I will arise now and go about the city, through the streets and squares. I will seek the one I love. So I sought him but did not find him.

In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping.

“Go up and down the streets of Jerusalem. Look now and take note; search her squares. If you can find a single person, anyone who acts justly, anyone who seeks the truth, then I will forgive the city.

For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

On all the rooftops of Moab and in the public squares, everyone is mourning; for I have shattered Moab like an unwanted jar,” declares the LORD.

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.