Lament for Sumer and Ur
The lament for Sumer and Urim or the lament for Sumer and Ur is a poem and one of five known Mesopotamian "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city's tutelary goddess. The other city laments are:
* The Lament for Ur
* The Lament for Nippur
* The Lament for Eridu
* The Lament for Uruk In 2004 BCE, during the last year of King Ibbi-Sin's reign, Ur fell to an army from the east. The Sumerians decided that such a catastrophic event could only be explained through divine intervention and wrote in the lament that the gods, "An, Enlil, Enki and Ninmah decided [Ur's] fate"
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Lament for Sumer and Ur
The lament for Sumer and Urim or the lament for Sumer and Ur is a poem and one of five known Mesopotamian "city laments"—dirges for ruined cities in the voice of the city's tutelary goddess. The other city laments are:
* The Lament for Ur
* The Lament for Nippur
* The Lament for Eridu
* The Lament for Uruk In 2004 BCE, during the last year of King Ibbi-Sin's reign, Ur fell to an army from the east. The Sumerians decided that such a catastrophic event could only be explained through divine intervention and wrote in the lament that the gods, "An, Enlil, Enki and Ninmah decided [Ur's] fate"
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The lament for Sumer and Urim ...... Jerusalem (Ezekiel 10:18-19)."
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The lament for Sumer and Urim ...... nd Ninmah decided [Ur's] fate"
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Lament for Sumer and Ur
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