Lamentations
Britishnoun
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a book of the Old Testament, traditionally ascribed to the prophet Jeremiah, lamenting the destruction of Jerusalem
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a musical setting of these poems
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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
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
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 A. F. Schauffler
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