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

The Rev. Kevin Young has opened the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Lamentations, and he is here to pray.

From New York Times • Apr. 26, 2018

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 19, 2016

In the evening there were Psalms, Lamentations, Lessons, and the Miserere again, scarcely differing from those of the previous day.

From Letters of Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy from Italy and Switzerland by Mendelssohn-Bartholdy, Felix