Graphic Bible · Scene 19 of 22

Poetic visual interpretation: Anonymous adult's raised empty hands in a moonlit deserted street, pleading on behalf of children, no divine answer shown.
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Lamentations 2:19

Cry Out in the Night

Devastation and the Cry in the Night · Lamentations 2

Story guide: Anonymous adult's raised empty hands in a moonlit deserted street, pleading on behalf of children. The night cry pours out the heart before Yahweh.

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19Rise, cry out in the night, at the beginning of the watches; pour out your heart like water before the face of the Lord. Lift up your hands to him for the lives of your little children, who are faint with hunger at the head of every street.

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