my relatives and friends are gone.

Everyone has forgotten me, as though I were dead; I am like something thrown away.

until what he had predicted came true. The word of the LORD proved him right.

Someone lived there who was poor, but so clever that he could have saved the town. But no one thought about him.

I have always said that wisdom is better than strength, but no one thinks of the poor as wise or pays any attention to what they say.

You drink wine by the bowlful and use the finest perfumes, but you do not mourn over the ruin of Israel.