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

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

From The New Yorker • Jul. 19, 2016

Lamentations and motets by Tomás Luis de Victoria.

From New York Times • Mar. 27, 2015

In 1642 he was chosen a member of the assembly of divines at Westminster, and annotated for that assembly the books of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Lamentations.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 5 "Gassendi, Pierre" to "Geocentric" by Various