Lamentations 1:12 meaning and explanation

Is this nothing to you, all you who pass by? Look around and see! Is there any sorrow like mine, which was inflicted on me, which the LORD made me suffer on the day of His fierce anger?

Lamentations 1:12, Berean Standard Bible

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The city speaks as a woman in the ruins of Jerusalem after Babylon destroyed it in 586 BC. She calls out to passersby, asking whether they will walk past her grief without a glance.

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