Lamentations 1:8 meaning and explanation
Jerusalem has sinned greatly; therefore she has become an object of scorn. All who honored her now despise her, for they have seen her nakedness; she herself groans and turns away.
Lamentations 1:8, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is Jerusalem personified as a woman mourning the fall of 587 BC. The verse names the cause of her ruin plainly: she has sinned greatly, and so she has become an object of scorn.
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