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Poetic visual interpretation: A slack measuring cord runs across fallen wall stones, the poem's metaphor shown without a builder or deity.
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Lamentations 2:8

The Measuring Line

Devastation and the Cry in the Night · Lamentations 2

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 2:8. A slack measuring cord runs across fallen wall stones, the poem's metaphor shown without a builder or deity. This composition interprets the poem; it does not identify a historical participant or add an event.

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8Yahweh determined to destroy the wall of daughter Zion; he stretched out a measuring line; he did not hold back his hand from swallowing up, and he made rampart and wall mourn; together they languish.

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