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An anonymous fully clothed grieving woman beside damaged precious vessels, a personification of the city’s memory rather than a named historical participant.
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Lamentations 1:7

Remembered Precious Things

The City Weeps Alone · Lamentations 1

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 1:7. An anonymous fully clothed grieving woman beside damaged precious vessels, a personification of the city’s memory rather than a named historical participant. The composition interprets the poem and does not add a named participant.

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7Jerusalem remembered in the days of her affliction and her wanderings all her precious things that were from days of old. When her people fell into the hand of the foe, and there was no one to help her, foes saw her; they laughed at her ruin.

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