Lamentations 1:16 meaning and explanation
For these things I weep; my eyes flow with tears. For there is no one nearby to comfort me, no one to revive my soul. My children are destitute because the enemy has prevailed.
Lamentations 1:16, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is personified Jerusalem, weeping over the destruction of the city and the exile of her people after the Babylonian siege. In the verses just before, she has described her sins as a yoke bound by God's own hand and her warriors trampled like grapes in a winepress.
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