We have become fatherless orphans; our mothers have become widows.

“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword ¹  among them.

May their camp become desolate, their tents uninhabited! ¹ 

The stone which the builders discarded ¹  has become the cornerstone. ² 

I absolutely hate them, ¹  they have become my enemies!

The foreigners ¹  who reside among you will become higher and higher over you and you will become lower and lower.

All of them respond to you, saying: ‘You too have become weak like us! You have become just like us!

Your chosen ¹  cities have become a desert; Zion has become a desert, Jerusalem ²  is a desolate ruin.

Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water ¹  will become unclean. Anything drinkable ²  in any such vessel will become unclean. ³ 

I will scatter you among the nations and unsheathe the sword ¹  after you, so your land will become desolate and your cities will become a waste.

They will lend to you but you will not lend to them; they will become the head and you will become the tail!

lest I become satisfied and act deceptively ¹  and say, “Who is the Lord?” Or lest I become poor and steal and demean ²  the name of my God.

For he came out of prison ¹  to become king, even though he had been born poor in what would become his ²  kingdom.

If the Lord who commands armies ¹  had not left us a few survivors, we would have quickly become like Sodom, ²  we would have become like Gomorrah.

When she has left him ¹  she may go and become someone else’s wife.

“I am about to die. ¹  Be strong and become a man!

Ahaziah had become king over Judah in the eleventh year of Joram son of Ahab.

Moreover, this will become my deliverance, for no godless person would come before him. ¹ 

You have become cruel to me; ¹  with the strength of your hand you attack me. ² 

I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches. ¹