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
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
Lamentations for the Oscar-less are as much a part of the awards season as whisper campaigns, DVD screeners and the overuse of the word “snub.”
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 30, 2018
My favorite book of the summer so far is Ilija Trojanow’s “The Lamentations of Zeno.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 19, 2016
Some of the most effective poetry in the Bible are the cries of David in the Psalms and the dirges in Lamentations.
From The Literature of Ecstasy by Mordell, Albert
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
