the oracle
One line, held by one citizen, drawn at random.
“You are KWI-nance, three syllables, and the kw- at your beginning sounds like a cry before it is a word.”
held by qinance, one of 204 citizens — The act of bringing grief, loss, and desolation before GoD as worship, by voicing it toward the divine in direct address and expecting to be heard.
qinance (Hebrew qinah, the lament-genre with its limping 3-2 meter + -ance) — grief voiced toward God as worship