5
Chapters
154
Verses
Jeremiah
Author
586 BC
Date Written
Lamentations is a collection of funeral poems mourning the destruction of Jerusalem, yet finding hope in God's faithfulness.
To express grief over Jerusalem's destruction while affirming God's faithfulness even in judgment.
Written immediately after Babylon destroyed Jerusalem in 586 BC.
Hebrew
איכה
Eikhah
“How?”
Greek
Θρῆνοι
Thrēnoi
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Lonely city
Divine judgment
Personal lament
Suffering described
Communal plea
“His compassions fail not. They are new every morning.”
“The LORD is good unto them that wait for him.”
“Let us search and try our ways, and turn again to the LORD.”
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