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

Lamentations rise into balmy air, weeping mourners embrace, and shovels bite the sandy earth.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 17, 2023

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

My favorite book of the summer so far is Ilija Trojanow’s “The Lamentations of Zeno.”

From The New Yorker • Jul. 19, 2016

He uttered the actual commonplaces of men in distress—there is a dreadful sameness about the Lamentations of Ill Luck.

From The Ivory Gate, a new edition by Besant, Walter, Sir