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Anonymous grieving woman beside a departure of anonymous adults and children, interpreting the city’s grief and captivity.
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Lamentations 1:5

Children Taken Away

The City Weeps Alone · Lamentations 1

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 1:5. Anonymous grieving woman beside a departure of anonymous adults and children, interpreting the city’s grief and captivity. The composition interprets the poem and does not add a named participant.

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5Her foes have become the head; her enemies prosper, because Yahweh has afflicted her for the multitude of her transgressions. Her children have gone away into captivity before the foe.

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