Lamentations 5:1-3

The Voice

A pun encourages daughter Zion that she will no longer be exiled or “uncovered,” but the same idiom condemns daughter Edom, for she will be “uncovered.”

5 Remember, Eternal One; don’t forget what happened.
    Just look at how we are demeaned, disgraced.
²All that You gave to us has been handed over to strangers.
    Even our houses foreigners have taken for their own.
³Abandoned too early and on our own, we are like fatherless children;
    and our mothers, now widows, have nothing either.