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Douay-Rheims
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Aleph. How doth the city sit solitary that was full of people! how is the mistress of the Gentiles become as a widow: the princes of provinces made tributary!
King James
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How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!
Louis Second
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Eh quoi! elle est assise solitaire, cette ville si peuplée! Elle est semblable à une veuve! Grande entre les nations, souveraine parmi les états, Elle est réduite à la servitude
Martin Luther
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Wie liegt die Stadt so wüste, die voll Volks war! Sie ist wie eine Witwe. Die eine Fürstin unter den Heiden und eine Königin in den Ländern war, muß nun dienen.
Vulgate
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ALEPH quomodo sedit sola civitas plena populo facta est quasi vidua domina gentium princeps provinciarum facta est sub tributo

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


quomodo : in what manner, how/ in whatever way, somehow.
civitas : state, citzenship, city-state, city.
quasi : as if, just as, just as if, as it were /a sort of.
princeps : * leader, prince, preeminent person, magnate, prince.
sub : (+ acc. or dat.) under, up under, close to, beneath, below.