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Poetic visual interpretation: Empty gate benches and an unused plain stringed instrument, lost civic life and music.
Artwork is an interpretation. Scripture is quoted from the People's Open Bible.

Lamentations 5:14

Silence at Gate and Music

Remember Us and Restore Us · Lamentations 5

Story guide: Visual essay for Lamentations 5:14. Empty gate benches and an unused plain stringed instrument, lost civic life and music. This composition interprets the poem; it does not identify a historical participant or add an event.

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14The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.

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