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Cruelty and Violence in Lamentations

1. God tramples "as in a winepress" mighty men, young men, and virgins. 1:15-16

2. "The Lord Was an enemy." 2:4-8

3. God mercilessly kills everyone, young and old. He even causes women to eat their children. 2:20-22

4. God is like a bear or a lion who secretly pursues you and then tears you apart. 3:10-11

5. "Give them sorrow of heart, thy curse unto them. Persecute and destroy them in anger." 3:63-64

6. God punishes the Israelites by starving their children to death. 4:4-9

7. God "accomplishes his fury" by making women eat their children. 4:10-11