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Lamentations 1:1-2
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Lamentations 1:1-2
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The prophet speaks
1 The city that was full of people is lonely now.
The city is like the wife of a dead husband.
Once she was great.
She was like a queen among the other places in the country.
Now she is a slave.[a]
2 She weeps in the night
and there are tears on her face.
Not one of her lovers comforts her.
All her friends have left her.
They have gone against her and they are now her enemies.[b]
Footnotes
- 1:1 God made Jerusalem great and important. So he can stop it being great or important. He will stop it if the people go against him. In Isaiah 47:1-11 and Revelation 18:1-8, he says that he will do this to another city, Babylon.
- 1:2 Many people had always come to Jerusalem. They do not come any longer. God took their friends away so that Jerusalem's people would turn back to him. See how very sad Jeremiah is: Jeremiah 9:1.
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