Lamentations 4:11 meaning and explanation

The LORD has exhausted His wrath; He has poured out His fierce anger; He has kindled a fire in Zion, and it has consumed her foundations.

Lamentations 4:11, Berean Standard Bible

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The speaker is the poet of Lamentations, surveying Jerusalem after the Babylonians destroyed it in 586 BC. After describing starvation so severe that compassionate women cooked their own children, he names the cause: the LORD himself.

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