LAMENTATIONS—NOTE ON Lamentations 2:1 God Has Set Zion under a Cloud. This chapter emphasizes the completeness of God’s judgment on Jerusalem. The verses unfold in three parts, each of which has a different main speaker. In vv. Lamentations 2:1 the speaker describes the effects of God’s punishment. In vv. Lamentations 2:11 a prophetic voice like Jeremiah’s grieves the city’s losses and counsels her to cry out to God. In vv. Lamentations 2:20 Jerusalem again asks God to see what she has suffered and to act on her behalf.

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