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Women in Lamentations

  1. Jerusalem is compared to a naked woman who sighs and turns backward. "Her filthiness is in her skirts." 1:8-9

  2. The adversary puts his hand upon "all her pleasant things. 1:10

  3. "Jerusalem is as a menstrous woman." (To God this is an insult.) 1:17

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

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

  6. When God gets angry at you he calls you a drunken whore. 4:21