8Heth. Jerusalem hath grievously sinned, therefore is she become unstable: all that honoured her have despised her, because they have seen her shame: but she sighed and turned backward.
Lamentations 1 opens the book with a raw, poetic portrait of Jerusalem after its destruction by Babylon in 586 BC. The city, once a queen among nations, sits alone like a widow, weeping through the night. The chapter alternates between the narrator's description of the city's des
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