Lamentations 1:19
19“I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.
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19“I called to my lovers, but they deceived me; my priests and elders perished in the city, while they sought food to revive their strength.
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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