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
Example Sentences
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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
In like manner, the Lamentations, originally added to Jeremiah, were afterwards put into the later or third canon.
From The Canon of the Bible by Samuel Davidson
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