LAMENTATIONS, Chapter 5
The Book of Lamentations was most likely written by the prophet Jeremiah, though there is no internal mark of authorship. It is the heartfelt "alas!" (its original title in Hebrew) from the soul of one who has witnessed his beloved people and their homeland ravished by a foreign invader, in this case Babylon. Its form is Hebrew-alphabet acrostic poetry, and its themes are those common to the OT prophetic tradition.
For Jenny and I this book is notable for its parallels at a different level of experience with the book of Malachi, which we have studied so carefully this year. The setting, of…
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