Jeremiah Prays for Jerusalem

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The second alphabet of 22 stanzas of lamentations, is very similar in substance and content to the first. It begins, as the first one did, with the word "Ecah" which means "Kinoth" in the Greek and translates to "Lamentations" in the English. Here, again, Jeremiah proclaims the anger of the Lord as the cause of their problems. He proclaims the sorrow of Zion's children as the result of that anger. He asks God to be compassionate and reminds Him that "the hand that wounds must be the hand that restores."

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