Lamentations

In this last chapter of the Book of Lamentations, the prophet pours out his heart before the Lord in prayer. Again, he describes the lamentable...

In this chapter, the fate of the several different classes of Jerusalem’s population is described. The song begins with the same Hebrew word as...

The words of the weeping prophet in this chapter are somewhat more general than those in the foregoing one, in order to make them suitable for...

The second of Jeremiah’s dirges of lament is set to the same mournful tune with the former, and its theme is much the same. In this second...

The Book of Lamentations was composed by the prophet Jeremiah after the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by the Babylonians. It consists of five...