The Prophets · Old Testament
Lamentations
Lamentations is book 25 of 66 and belongs to the Prophets in the Old Testament. It has 5 chapters, each with source-checked General, Historical and Literary context. 2 people are indexed in its passages.
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Chapters
- Lamentations 1: Lamentations 1: the city sits solitary, and there is none to comfort her
The poem opens by asking how the city once full of people sits solitary, become as a widow and tributary. She weeps in the night; none of her lovers… - Lamentations 2: Lamentations 2: the Lord as an enemy, and children fainting in the streets
The poem opens by asking how the Lord has covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger and cast down the beauty of Israel. He has swallowed… - Lamentations 3: Remembered mercy within a lament
An unnamed speaker describes affliction through darkness, confinement and attack, saying that even prayer has been shut out. Remembering the Lord's… - Lamentations 4: Lamentations 4: gold grown dim, famine in the streets, and a cup for Edom
The poem opens by asking how the gold has become dim and the sanctuary's stones lie poured out in every street. The sons of Zion, once like fine… - Lamentations 5: Lamentations 5: remember, O Lord, what is come upon us
A plural voice asks the Lord to remember what has come upon them and to look at their reproach. Their inheritance has gone to strangers and their…
