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
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
My favorite book of the summer so far is Ilija Trojanow’s “The Lamentations of Zeno.”
From The New Yorker • Jul. 19, 2016
He cannot wait for the other girls to come home from the factory, but takes his book of Lamentations, puts off his shoes, and drags himself—it is all he can do—to the Shool.
From Yiddish Tales by Various
