lamentations

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The Book of Lamentations contains a plea that God should “renew our days as of old.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 2, 2026

Lamentations rise into balmy air, weeping mourners embrace, and shovels bite the sandy earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

He put all of his effort into his music, resulting in 2016’s Lamentations, an EP of intimate soul hymnals constructed round lightly fingered riffs.

From The Guardian • Feb. 29, 2020

My favorite book of the summer so far is Ilija Trojanow’s “The Lamentations of Zeno.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 19, 2016

Some of Nola's works are found in the library of the Vatican, among them being commentaries, in manuscript, on Lamentations and Ruth.

From Some Jewish Witnesses For Christ by B.D.