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Lamentations
Lamentations is a book of the Old Testament that collects five laments, poems of grief mourning the destruction of Jerusalem and its temple by the Babylonians.
Articles 17, showing 6
- Lamentations 4Bible
Lamentations 4 is a lament over the devastation of Jerusalem when it was besieged and captured by Babylon, contrasting "once" with "now." It closes by declaring that Zion's punishment has ended and that Edom will be judged.
- Lamentations 1Bible
Lamentations 1 is a lament that portrays fallen Jerusalem as a widow left alone and mourns her devastation. Its 22 verses follow the order of the Hebrew alphabet, and the chapter confesses that the suffering came because of the people's sin.
- Lamentations 3Bible
Lamentations 3 is a sixty-six-verse lament in which an individual speaker, "I," mourns the suffering endured under God's wrath and then regains hope by remembering the LORD's mercy and faithfulness.
- Lamentations 5Bible
The final chapter of Lamentations, a communal prayer in which the people who remain after the fall of Jerusalem lay their hunger and disgrace before God and plead for restoration: "Turn thou us unto thee."
- Lamentations 2Bible
The second poem of the Book of Lamentations, which portrays the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple as the result of the LORD's wrath. It depicts starving children and mocking enemies, urges Zion to cry out to the Lord, and closes with a prayer of lament.
Verses in the King James Version 2, showing 2
- 2 Chronicles 35:25
And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spake of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.
- Ezekiel 2:10
And he spread it before me; and it was written within and without: and there was written therein lamentations, and mourning, and woe.
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