Lamentations 3:48 meaning and explanation

Streams of tears flow from my eyes over the destruction of the daughter of my people.

Lamentations 3:48, Berean Standard Bible

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These words belong to the third of five poems in Lamentations, voiced by a man who speaks for Jerusalem after the Babylonians destroyed the city and its temple in 586 BC. The chapter moves between raw complaint and sudden hope, and here the speaker returns to grief.

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