Lamentations in your own voice

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ProphetsShort readabout 25 minutes to listen

Five poems of raw grief over a destroyed Jerusalem — starvation, shame and abandonment — with one famous turn toward hope in the middle. Record a short sample of your voice and Engil narrates the whole of Lamentations in it.

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How does the city sit solitary, that was full of people! She is become as a widow, that was great among the nations! She that was a princess among the provinces is become tributary! She weeps sore in the night, and her tears are on her cheeks; Among all her lovers she has none to comfort her: All her friends have dealt treacherously with her; they are become her enemies. Judah is gone into captivity because of affliction, and because of great servitude; She dwells among the nations, she finds no rest: All her persecutors overtook her within the straits.

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