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Poetic visual interpretation: Several anonymous clothed elders seated low with bowed heads and sackcloth, faces indistinct, no dialogue.
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Lamentations 2:10

Silence on the Ground

Devastation and the Cry in the Night · Lamentations 2

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 2:10. Several anonymous clothed elders seated low with bowed heads and sackcloth, faces indistinct, no dialogue. This composition interprets the poem; it does not identify a historical participant or add an event.

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10The elders of daughter Zion sit on the ground in silence; they have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth; the virgins of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.

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