Lamentations
Old Testament · Major Prophets · 5 chapters
Five poems of grief over the destruction of Jerusalem, holding honest lament together with trust in God’s faithful love.
Exile & ReturnHopeSuffering
Context
- Genre
- Lament poetry
- Authorship
- Traditionally attributed to JeremiahThe book is anonymous; tradition links it to Jeremiah.
- Date
- after 586 BCE
- Setting
- Jerusalem after its fall
- Original language
- Hebrew
- In the original
- אֵיכָהeikha — how?
- Related texts
- Jeremiah 52 · the fall of JerusalemPsalms 137 · lament in exile