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The five chapters of Lamentations may be easily overlooked. Not only is it brief, but it is also sandwiched between the two giants of Old Testament prophecy, Jeremiah and Ezekiel. Lamentations also deals with realities which we rather wish were not discussed—consequently the book is little studied. However, although there much here to challenge faith, there is much that builds it up. Lamentations...

This essential continuity may be seen in the figure of ‘daughter Zion’ in chapters 1 and 2. This personification involves attributing to the non-human entity—the city—the qualities of a human personality, a widow, once beautiful and prosperous, but now ravaged by the enemy, abandoned by her former friends, and sitting alone and forlorn at the road side. The figure of a ravaged widow, subject to continuing victimisation, evokes sympathy, and allows us to grasp the overwhelming nature of the catastrophe
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