Lamed
“Is it nothing to you?
All you who pass by!
Look!
See!
If there is any sorrow
Like my sorrow?
It was brought
Upon me.
Yahweh inflicted it
On the day
Of his fierce anger.”
Now this is no longer a description of Jerusalem, but Jerusalem herself speaking out. She wants the passers-by to notice the great sorrow that is in Jerusalem. They should look and see what Yahweh in his anger has inflicted on her. There is no sorrow like the sorrow in Jerusalem. This verse starts with the Hebrew consonant letter Lamed. Each verse after this will use the next letter of the Hebrew alphabet in this acrostic poem.
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