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

Groff does provide — at least by Groffian standards — an action-filled escape sequence by which Lamentations employs all the tools at hand, whether stolen or crudely fashioned.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2023

A modest space with small religious paintings and sketches from the 1840s and ’50s raises the emotional pitch with amazing Lamentations and Pietas, and a Rubenesque sketch for a Crucifix.

From New York Times • Sep. 13, 2018

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 19, 2016

Lamentations A pathetic ode, expressing Jeremiah's grief over the destruction of Jerusalem and its Temple, and the miseries of slavery and famine.

From Training the Teacher by Schauffler, A. F.