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Poetic visual interpretation: Wide devastated palace courtyard, successive empty doorways express losses, no mourners assigned names.
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Lamentations 2:5

Mourning Multiplied

Devastation and the Cry in the Night · Lamentations 2

Story guide: Wide devastated palace courtyard, successive empty doorways express losses. Devastation multiplies mourning throughout the daughter of Judah.

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5The Lord became like an enemy; he swallowed up Israel. He swallowed up all her palaces; he destroyed his strongholds, and he multiplied mourning and lamentation in Daughter Judah.

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