5Her adversaries have become chief, Her enemies have been at ease, For Jehovah hath afflicted her, For the abundance of her transgressions, Her infants have gone captive before the adversary.
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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