[citation needed] The destruction of the city, the mass killing of its inhabitants, and the loss of its central temple are vividly described.
[citation needed] Samuel Noah Kramer suggests that subsequent Greek as well as Hebrew texts "were profoundly influenced by them.
"[11] Contemporary scholars have drawn parallels between the lament and passages from the Bible (e.g. "the Lord departed from his temple and stood on the mountain east of Jerusalem (Ezekiel 10:18-19).
"[5]: 118 In the Jewish tradition, this genre also appears over a millennium later in the Hebrew Bible, particularly in reference to the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon in the sixth century BCE.
[13]: 317 [14] Like its Mesopotamian predecessors, it personifies the city, grieves over its destruction by God, and prays that calamity will overtake its destroyers.