The cry of the ghetto is being heard by a nation with its fingers in its ears

Pathos would make you cry. It would enlist your sentiments. Pathos has those things as its end. They want you to feel emotions. The emotions rule. Tragedy doesn't think of those as its end. It's a big difference.

I was very happy. I didn't know what to do, cry or laugh. It was a shock.

The Nation that destroys its soil destroys itself

Moab is destroyed; her little ones have caused a cry to be heard.

Now I lay down on this tree and felt a lonely sadness coming over me in waves. Slow tears ran from my eyes and trickled into my ears. I thought, 'I even cry in a humble, common way, with tears flowing into my ears.' But the humble, common tears had relieved me[...]