Texts · 9 · Daughter Zion

'How lonely sits the city'

Lamentations opens with Jerusalem as a widow: once full of people, great among nations, a princess among provinces, now a vassal.

A city personified in grief.

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Daughter Zion sits bereft. Her highways mourn because no one comes to her festivals, her gates are desolate, and she is bitter.

Bible reference: Lamentations 1:1–4

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 137–138

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