Lamentations 2:15 meaning and explanation
All who pass by clap their hands at you in scorn. They hiss and shake their heads at the Daughter of Jerusalem: “Is this the city that was called the perfection of beauty, the joy of all the earth?”
Lamentations 2:15, Berean Standard Bible
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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, watching the aftermath of Jerusalem's fall to Babylon in 586 BC. Passersby clap and hiss in mockery, shaking their heads in the ancient gesture of scorn.
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