Samek
“Yahweh has rejected
All my warriors
In the midst of me.
He proclaimed a time
Against me
To crush
My young men.
Yahweh has trodden
As in a wine press
The virgin daughter,
Judah.”
This lament continued with Jerusalem speaking in the first person. Yahweh has rejected all the warriors from Jerusalem and Judah. Yahweh, not the king of Babylon, has crushed the young men of Judah and Jerusalem. He has trodden and stomped over his virgin daughter, Judah, like a wine press. This verse starts with the Hebrew consonant letter Samek. Each verse after this will use the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet in this acrostic poem.
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