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Crumpled dusty cloth on a threshold while anonymous fully clothed figures turn away, a disclosed metaphor for shame and dishonor.
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Lamentations 1:8

Sin and Shame

The City Weeps Alone · Lamentations 1

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 1:8. Crumpled dusty cloth on a threshold while anonymous fully clothed figures turn away, a disclosed metaphor for shame and dishonor. The composition interprets the poem and does not add a named participant.

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8Jerusalem has sinned grievously; therefore she has become unclean. All who honored her despise her, because they have seen her nakedness. She herself also groans and turns backward.

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