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In the prophecy, then, he grieves in soul as one about to suffer most terrible things; but in the present Lament, as these things having already befallen, he is weighed down and through sins confesses that the kindness of God has set herself most bitter—so as even for the many-childed to be made childless, and the most terrible thing, by a hostile hand.And there being a personification, one must not seek a city’s womb that has given birth and a heart that has been loosed (Lamentations 1:20).