The fourth poem returns to the horrors of the siege, contrasting Zion’s former glory with her present ruin: gold grown dim, precious sons treated as clay pots, nobles blackened and shriveled by famine, and mothers driven to unspeakable acts. It confesses that this came because of the sins of prophets and priests who shed innocent blood, and it warns proud Edom, who gloated, that her turn to drink the cup of judgment will come, while Zion’s punishment will one day be complete.
Lamentations study chapter
Lamentations 4
586 BCThe horrors of the siege, when the precious sons of Zion were brought low.
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