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
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
To the great synagogue must be referred the compilation of the second canon, containing Joshua, Judges with Ruth, Samuel, Kings, Isaiah, Jeremiah with Lamentations, Ezekiel and the twelve minor prophets.
From The Canon of the Bible by Davidson, Samuel
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
