Lamentations

Poems mourning the fall of Jerusalem and expressing hope in God's mercy. ... click to read full summary of this book.

The hands of the pitiful women have sodden their own children: they were their meat in the destruction of the daughter of my people.

The sad women cooked their own kids: they ate them during the terrible time that destroyed my people's family.

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