9Her city gates, iron bars and all, disappeared in the rubble: her kings and princes off to exile--no one left to instruct or lead; her prophets useless--they neither saw nor heard anything from GOD.
Lamentations 2 shifts from the communal grief of chapter 1 to a searing, almost unbearable account of God's own hand in Jerusalem's destruction. The poet describes the Lord as an enemy who has swallowed up Israel without mercy, dismantling every symbol of security—the temple, the
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