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Poetic visual interpretation: Anonymous open hands lifted into an empty gray field of sky, no divine figure or answering hand.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Lamentations 1:17

Hands Without Comfort

The City Weeps Alone · Lamentations 1

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 1:17. Anonymous open hands lifted into an empty gray field of sky, no divine figure or answering hand. This composition interprets the poem; it does not identify a historical participant or add an event.

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17Zion has spread out her hands; there is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob that his enemies surround him; Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.

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