We look at the news reports, and we wonder:
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- How?
- How did this happen?
- How did we fall this low?
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I noticed a title on someone else’s post: A Lament. It sent my mind to the Bible and the book of Lamentations. It’s a book of mourning, a poetic expression of grief for the downfall of the writer’s nation. The first word, ekah in Hebrew, is translated “how.”
Lamentations 1:1a, 2a (NIV)
How deserted lies the city,
once so full of people!
. . . Bitterly she weeps at night.
Ekah! Cities shut down. Ekah! Cities in flames.
Bitterly, we weep.
