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NASB | Lamentations 1:1 How lonely sits the city That was full of people! She has become like a widow Who was once great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces Has become a forced laborer! |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | Lamentations 1:1 How solitary and lonely sits the city [Jerusalem] That was [once] full of people! How like a widow she has become. She who was great among the nations! The princess among the provinces, Has become a forced laborer! |
Bible Question: I need help in Lamentations 1:20-22 |
Bible Answer: This is a common literary techinque of Scripture for a writer to give speech to a place or thing that normally does not have speech (See Isaiah 14:7,8; 1 Cor. 12:15,16). This is called personification. So the prophet Jeremiah is giving speech to the city of Jerusalem. And Jerusalem is agonizing over the consequences of her rebellion. Her main enemy is Babylon. And she is now praying harm on them, which prayer the Lord eventually answers after Jerusalem's 70 year captivity (See Jer. 25:12). Grace to you. Student 7300 |
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