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
Similar confirmation is given by "The Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys," a papyrus found within a statue of Osiris in Thebes.
From Myth, Ritual And Religion, Vol. 2 (of 2) by Lang, Andrew
