0 Lamentations : Language

Jerusalem hath grievously sinned ... they have seen her nakedness: yea, she sigheth, and turneth backward. 1:8

Trivia: What type of bird did the author of Lamentations call cruel?

Lamentations : Language (4)

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

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