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
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
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
The Rev. Kevin Young has opened the Book of Jubilees and the Book of Lamentations, and he is here to pray.
From New York Times ● Apr. 26, 2018
The Lamentations consist of five elegies on the fall of Jerusalem, and the sufferings which its people experienced in consequence; they must all have been composed not long after 586 B.C.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
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