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Poetic visual interpretation: An unused heavy wooden yoke with entwined cord isolated on dark earth, metaphor for guilt, no wearer.
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Lamentations 1:14

The Yoke of Transgressions

The City Weeps Alone · Lamentations 1

Story guide: An unused heavy wooden yoke with entwined cord isolated on dark earth, metaphor for guilt. Transgressions become a binding yoke upon the sufferer.

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14The yoke of my transgressions is bound by his hand; they are woven together, they have come up upon my neck; he has made my strength fail. The Lord has given me into hands from which I cannot rise.

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