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Poetic visual interpretation: An anonymous mother supports a weary clothed small child beside empty grain bowl; compassionate non-graphic depiction, no speech lettering.
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Lamentations 2:12

Where Are Grain and Wine

Devastation and the Cry in the Night · Lamentations 2

Story guide: An anonymous mother supports a weary clothed small child beside empty grain bowl. The question about grain and wine gives hunger a voice.

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12They say to their mothers, “Where are grain and wine?” as they faint like the wounded in the streets of the city, as their life is poured out into their mothers’ bosom.

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