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LAMENTATIONS OF JEREMIAH - L>@ - Title.
The Hebrew title of this book, Ecah , is taken, like the titles of the five books of Moses, from the Hebrew word with which it opens. Author.
The poems included in this collection appear in the Hebrew canon with no name attached to them, but Jeremiah has been almost universally regarded as their author. Date.
The poems belong unmistakably to the last days of the kingdom, or the commencement of the exile, B.C. 629-586. They are written by one who speaks, with the vividness and intensity of an eye-witness, of the misery which he bewails. Contents.
The book consists of five chapter, each of which, however, is a separate poem, complete in itself, and having a distinct subject, but brought at the same time under a plan which includes them all. A complicated alphabetic structure pervades nearly the whole book.

(1) Chs. 1-2 and 4 contain twenty-two verses each, arranged in alphabetic order, each verse falling into three nearly balanced clauses; ch. kjv@Lamentations:2:19) forms an exception, as having a fourth clause.

(2) Ch. 3 contains three short verses under each letter of the alphabet, the initial letter being three times repeated.

(3) Ch. 5 contains the same number of verses as chs. 1-2-4, but without the alphabetic order. Jeremiah was not merely a patriot-poet, weeping over the ruin of his country; he was a prophet who had seen all this coming, and had foretold it as inevitable. There are perhaps few portions of the Old Testament which appear to have done the work they were meant to do more effectually than this. The book has supplied thousands with the fullest utterance for their sorrows in the critical periods of national or individual suffering. We may well believe that it soothed the weary years of the Babylonian exile. It enters largely into the order of the Latin Church for the services of passion-week. On the ninth day of the month of Ab (July
- August), the Lamentations of Jeremiah were read, year by year, with fasting and weeping, to commemorate the misery out of which the people had been delivered.

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Lamentation @ (Heb. qinah), an elegy or dirge. The first example of this form of poetry is the lament of David over Saul and Jonathan ( kjv@2Samuel:1:17-27). It was a frequent accompaniment of mourning kjv@Amos:8:10). In kjv@2Samuel:3:33-34 is recorded David's lament over Abner. Prophecy sometimes took the form of a lament when it predicted calamity kjv@Ezekiel:27:2-32 kjv@Ezekiel:28:12 kjv@Ezekiel:32:2 ,16).

Lamentations, Book of @ called in the Hebrew canon 'Ekhah, meaning "How," being the formula for the commencement of a song of wailing. It is the first word of the book (see kjv@2Samuel:1:19-27). The LXX. adopted the name rendered "Lamentations" (Gr. threnoi = Heb. qinoth) now in common use, to denote the character of the book, in which the prophet mourns over the desolations brought on the city and the holy land by Chaldeans. In the Hebrew Bible it is placed among the Khethubim. (
See BIBLE.) As to its authorship, there is no room for hesitancy in following the LXX. and the Targum in ascribing it to Jeremiah. The spirit, tone, language, and subject-matter are in accord with the testimony of tradition in assigning it to him. According to tradition, he retired after the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to a cavern outside the Damascus gate, where he wrote this book. That cavern is still pointed out. "In the face of a rocky hill, on the western side of the city, the local belief has placed 'the grotto of Jeremiah.' There, in that fixed attitude of grief which Michael Angelo has immortalized, the prophet may well be supposed to have mourned the fall of his country" (Stanley, Jewish Church). The book consists of five separate poems. In chapter 1 the prophet dwells on the manifold miseries oppressed by which the city sits as a solitary widow weeping sorely. In chapter 2 these miseries are described in connection with the national sins that had caused them. Chapter 3 speaks of hope for the people of God. The chastisement would only be for their good; a better day would dawn for them. Chapter 4 laments the ruin and desolation that had come upon the city and temple, but traces it only to the people's sins. Chapter 5 is a prayer that Zion's reproach may be taken away in the repentance and recovery of the people. The first four poems (chapters) are acrostics, like some of the Psalms (25, 34, 37, 119), i.e., each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order. The first, second, and fourth have each twenty-two verses, the number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet. The third has sixty-six verses, in which each three successive verses begin with the same letter. The fifth is not acrostic. Speaking of the "Wailing-place (q.v.) of the Jews" at Jerusalem, a portion of the old wall of the temple of Solomon, Schaff says: "There the Jews assemble every Friday afternoon to bewail the downfall of the holy city, kissing the stone wall and watering it with their tears. They repeat from their well-worn Hebrew Bibles and prayer-books the Lamentations of Jeremiah and suitable Psalms."

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LAMENTATIONS @
- Of David kjv@Psalms:60:1-3
- Of Jeremiah, see the Book of Lamentations
- Of Ezekiel kjv@Ezekiel:19; Psalms:28:12-19
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See ELEGY

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H60 <STRHEB>@ אבל 'êbel ay'-bel From H56; lamentation: - mourning.

H1058 <STRHEB>@ בּכה bâkâh baw-kaw' A primitive root; to weep; generally to bemoan: - X at {all} {bewail} {complain} make {lamentation} X {more} {mourn} X {sore} X with {tears} weep.

H1958 <STRHEB>@ הי hîy he For H5092; lamentation: - woe.

H188 <STRHEB>@ אוי 'ôy o'-ee Probably from H183 (in the sense of crying out after); lamentation; also {interjectionally} Oh!: - {alas} woe.

H4553 <STRHEB>@ מספּד mispêd mis-pade' From H5594; a lamentation: - {lamentation} one {mourneth} {mourning} wailing.

H4798 <STRHEB>@ מרזח marzêach mar-zay'-akh Formed like H4797; a {cry} that {is} (of grief) a lamentation: - mourning.

H5089 <STRHEB>@ נהּ nôahh no'-ah From an unused root meaning to lament; lamentation: - wailing.

H5092 <STRHEB>@ נהי nehîy neh-hee' From H5091; an elegy: - {lamentation} wailing.

H5093 <STRHEB>@ נהיה nihyâh nih-yaw' Feminine of H5092; lamentation: - doleful.

H5204 <STRHEB>@ ני nîy nee A doubtful word; apparently from H5091; lamentation: - wailing.

H592 <STRHEB>@ אניּה 'ănîyâh an-ee-yaw' From H578; groaning: - {lamentation} sorrow.

H7015 <STRHEB>@ קינה qîynâh kee-naw' From H6969; a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on instruments): - lamentation.

H8386 <STRHEB>@ תּאניּה ta'ănîyâh tah-an-ee-yaw' From H578; lamentation: - {heaviness} mourning.

G2355 <STRGRK>@ θρῆνος thrēnos thray'-nos From the base of G2360; wailing: - lamentation.

G2805 <STRGRK>@ κλαυθμός klauthmos klowth-mos' From G2799; lamentation: - wailing weeping X wept.

G2870 <STRGRK>@ κοπετός kopetos kop-et-os' From G2875; mourning (properly by beating the breast): - lamentation.

G3602 <STRGRK>@ ὀδυρμός odurmos od-oor-mos' From a derivative of the base of G1416; moaning that is lamentation: - mourning.