LAMENTATIONS -How the City Sits Alone (Lament version)

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LAMENTATIONS – How the City Sits Alone by Bro H

Verse 1 How the city sits alone Once full, now stripped and torn Stones remember sacred songs Now silence fills the morn Gates that knew the feet of kings Know hunger, ash, and chains What was built for glory’s rest Now bears the weight of shame Verse 2 We trusted walls and empty vows We loved the sound of peace Prophets healed us slightly Said the judgment soon would cease But fire answered flattering words And truth was cast aside The wound was deeper than we knew The cure we all denied Chorus O Lord, You are righteous still Though sorrow fills our days You have done what You declared Your word has not betrayed We sit beneath the verdict now No comfort left to claim Yet still we speak Your holy name And bear the weight of blame Verse 3 The children faint in open streets No bread, no song, no rest The crown has fallen from our head Our best was never best The gold grew dim, the silver failed The fire would not refine The dross remained, the truth exposed This end was not unkind Bridge 1 You did not strike in reckless wrath Nor turn away Your face You waited long, You warned us plain You measured time and space And when the line was finally crossed And words could do no more You stood against the city once You swore You’d once restore Verse 4 Yet this we call again to mind And so we dare to stand Not freed from chains, not home returned But held within Your hand It is of mercy we remain Not scattered to the dust The breath still stays, the seed still lives Because Your name is just Chorus Yahweh, You are righteous still Though sorrow fills our days You have done what You declared Your word has not betrayed We sit beneath the verdict now No comfort left to claim Yet still we speak Your holy name And bear the weight of blame Bridge 2 Turn us when You will to turn Restore when You decree We do not claim tomorrow’s light We wait in honesty The throne remains, the years endure Though ruins mark the land You are the One who casts down walls And lifts by Your command Outro So let the city learn to weep Let memory remain Faith is not escape from fire But loyalty through flame Until You speak, until You move We sit where truth has led Awaiting mercy not yet named Alive — though not yet healed