Graphic Bible · Scene 13 of 22

Poetic visual interpretation: Wide sea viewed across fractured shoreline rock, explicitly metaphorical measure of grief, not Jerusalem geography.
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Lamentations 2:13

A Fracture Like the Sea

Devastation and the Cry in the Night · Lamentations 2

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 2:13. Wide sea viewed across fractured shoreline rock, explicitly metaphorical measure of grief, not Jerusalem geography. This composition interprets the poem; it does not identify a historical participant or add an event.

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13What can I testify for you? What can I compare you to, daughter Jerusalem? What can I liken to you, so that I may comfort you, virgin daughter Zion? For your fracture is as great as the sea; who can heal you?

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