Lamentations 1:18 meaning and explanation
The LORD is righteous, for I have rebelled against His command. Listen, all you people; look upon my suffering. My young men and maidens have gone into captivity.
Lamentations 1:18, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is Jerusalem personified, a woman weeping over the ruined city after Babylon destroyed it in 586 BC. In the middle of her grief she makes a startling confession: the LORD is righteous, and the disaster is not divine cruelty but the consequence of her own rebellion against His command.
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