EPISODE · Feb 17, 2026 · 21 MIN
193: The City That Died (Lamentations 1-2)
from Wholly Buyable · host Chas Bayfield
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 BayfieldMusic by Michael Auld and Jon Hawkins MusicCover art by Lisa GoffSend any comments or feedback to [email protected]: @WhollyBuyable
Embed this episode
What this episode covers
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 ano...
Ready to play
193: The City That Died (Lamentations 1-2)
No transcript for this episode yet
Similar Episodes
No similar episodes found.