One of the fascinating and inspiring things about the Bible is the light it sheds on humanity; not just the humans living at the time biblical books were written, but all humans.
Consider the Old Testament book of Lamentations. The Jewish prophet Jeremiah has traditionally been considered the author of Lamentations, a series of long-form poems expressing great grief after the Babylonian destruction of the city of Jerusalem and its Temple in 587 B.C.
The author mourns Jerusalem, which was “once great among the nations” but “has now become a slave,” plundered and mocked by those who once feared her: “Her foes have become her masters; her enemies are at ease … Her enemies looked at her and laughed at her destruction … The enemy laid hands on all her treasures.”