Lamentations 1

For all of her many years of resisting God’s warnings, Jerusalem kept sinning. The accumulation of penalty came crushing down upon her king and inhabitants when the army of Babylon devastated the city and its inhabitants. All the kings sons were murdered before his eyes, then his eyes put out. THAT is pure grief.

For the wages of sin is death; but the gift of God is eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord. [Rom. 6:23]