Lamentations 1:17 meaning and explanation
Zion stretches out her hands, but there is no one to comfort her. The LORD has decreed against Jacob that his neighbors become his foes. Jerusalem has become an unclean thing among them.
Lamentations 1:17, Berean Standard Bible
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Jerusalem is the speaker, personified as a woman in the aftermath of the city's fall to Babylon in 586 BC. She stretches out her hands in the posture of a beggar, but no ally answers.
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