Reconstruction of Lisbon around 1755 and the earthquake, tsunami and fire that destroyed the city on November 1st that year. It is an adaptation of the documentary "God's Wrath" (episode 5 of the series "Perfect Storms: Disasters that Changed the World", aired 2013). Music is and excerpt from Portuguese composer Estêvão de Brito's (c.1575-1641) set of the Lamentations of the Prophet Jeremiah for Good Friday.
Heth. Cogitavit Dominus dissipare murum filiæ Sion; tetendit funiculum suum, et non avertit manum suam a perditione: luxitque antemurale, et murus pariter dissipatus est.
Thet. Defixæ sunt in terra portæ ejus, perdidit et contrivit vectes ejus; regem ejus et principes ejus in gentibus: non est lex, et prophetæ ejus non invenerunt visionem a Domino.
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