Trigger warning: This episode includes accounts of infant death 

In 597 BC, the city of Babylon was besieged.

Eleven years later, Nebuchadnezzar II's army returned and laid siege to it once again.

The privations of living through these sieges are hard to imagine, but readers don't need to use their imagination.

They have the poet or poets who lived through these terrible years and saw the horror with their own eyes.

If Jeremiah's book ended bleakly, Lamentations takes that desolation another level down.

Written and produced by Chas Bayfield

Music by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins Music

Cover art by Lisa Goff

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