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Lamentations
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Lamentations, book of the Bible, placed immediately after Jeremiah, to whose author it has been ascribed since ancient times. It was probably composed by several authors. It is a series of five poems mourning the destruction of Jerusalem by Babylon. Each of the the first four poems is an alphabetical acrostic, the third having three verses to the letter, instead of one. The book begins with dirges, followed by a psalm of lament with expressions of trust. The psalm is followed by another dirge expressing grief and longing for divine intervention. It concludes with a lament and a prayer for the restoration of the fortunes of Jerusalem.

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See study by D. R. Hillers (rev. ed. 1992). See also bibliography under Old Testament Old Testament, Christian name for the Hebrew Bible, which serves as the first division of the Christian Bible (see New Testament ). The designations "Old" and "New" seem to have been adopted after c.A.D.
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Community liturgies appealing for help in the face of national distress appear in poems such as Psalms 44, 74, 79, 80, 83 and in the book of Lamentations.
Comfort for Jerusalem: the second Isaiah as counselor to refugees by Morrow, William S. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
God is perceived as the original source of this duality: the Book of Lamentations asks, "Out of the mouth of the Most High, do not both good and evil come?
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Freed from their scriptural monopoly, she "finds her story" in the book of Lamentations.
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