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 symphony ends with a sternly anguished setting for mezzo-soprano of a Hebrew text from the Book of Lamentations.

From New York Times • Oct. 20, 2017

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 19, 2016

And Jeremiah says in Lamentations, "He casts casts off men, but He does it not willingly."

From Works of Martin Luther With Introductions and Notes (Volume I) by Luther, Martin