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Poetic visual interpretation: A slack worn cord lying broken on bare stone, disclosed metaphor for exhausted endurance.
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Lamentations 3:18

Endurance and Hope Perish

Affliction, Hope, and the Plea for Justice · Lamentations 3

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 3:18. A slack worn cord lying broken on bare stone, disclosed metaphor for exhausted endurance. This composition interprets the poem; it does not identify a historical participant or add an event.

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18So I said, “My endurance has perished, and my hope from Yahweh.”

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