1. Lamentations 2:13 (NEG79)
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What is the purpose of the questions in this verse?

Lamentations 2:13 (NEG79)

13 Que dois-je te dire? à quoi te comparer, fille de Jérusalem? Qui trouver de semblable à toi, et quelle consolation te donner, Vierge, fille de Sion? Car ta plaie est grande comme la mer: Qui pourra te guérir?

As is evident from this verse and the following verses, the writer finds no words to comfort his people. He poses rhetorical questions that emphasise his inability to provide answers.1 This series of questions seems to convey a sense of hopelessnes. In the face of such calamity, human wisdom is bereft of its capacity to comfort.