8A sin hath Jerusalem sinned, Therefore impure she hath become, All who honoured her have esteemed her lightly, For they have seen her nakedness, Yea, she herself hath sighed and turneth 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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