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The widow reunited

In Lamentations, the widowed city has no one. In Second Isaiah, she's reassured that her husband, the nation's God, is beside her again.

Second Isaiah answers Lamentations image by image.

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Where Lamentations shows a mother watching her children starve, Second Isaiah promises children coming from afar.

Bible reference: Isaiah 54:4–8

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 154

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