Lamentations 1:11 meaning and explanation
All her people groan as they search for bread. They have traded their treasures for food to keep themselves alive. Look, O LORD, and consider, for I have become despised.
Lamentations 1:11, Berean Standard Bible
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The chapter is a lament over Jerusalem after the Babylonian siege and destruction, and the city speaks as a woman in grief. Here the physical hunger of the siege is named: people groan while hunting for bread and trade their treasures for food just to stay alive.
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