Lamentations 4:7 meaning and explanation
Her dignitaries were brighter than snow, whiter than milk; their bodies were more ruddy than rubies, their appearance like sapphires.
Lamentations 4:7, Berean Standard Bible
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The grieving poet of Lamentations looks back on Jerusalem after Babylon destroyed it. In verse 7 he recalls how the city's dignitaries, its princes and nobles, once looked: radiant, healthy and striking, pictured as snow, milk, rubies and sapphires.
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