“Their blood have they shed like water round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury them.”
The suffering extends to the living: "They have poured out their blood like water all around Jerusalem, and there was no one to bury them." The profusion of blood spilled suggests not merely individual deaths but wholesale slaughter; the absence of anyone to perform burial rites indicates the totality of the catastrophe. The entire community structure has collapsed; survivors lack the capacity or safety to fulfill basic covenantal duties.
COMMUNITY REFLECTIONS
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