afflicted and broken in spirit. Metaphorically speaking, they are captives, people sitting in the darkness of the prison. They are dressed in the garb appropriate to people who mourn the state of Zion. Their cities are in ruins. They live with humiliation and shame. The section does not show signs of being concerned with a group of needy people within the community but with the entire community, and the portrait matches one we might derive from Haggai and Zechariah or Ezra and Nehemiah. Its portrait