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

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

Joshua Bell is the violin soloist in Bernstein’s “Serenade,” and the mezzo-soprano Kelley O’Connor intones words from the Hebrew Book of Lamentations in the Symphony No. 1, “Jeremiah.”

From New York Times • Oct. 19, 2017

"In which group is Lamentations to be found?"

From With the Children on Sunday Through Eye-Gate and Ear-Gate into the City of Child-Soul by Stall, Sylvanus