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Old Testament · Major Prophets · Poetry / Lament
Lamentations
Grief poetry over a destroyed city, refusing to look away.
- Where this sits in the story
- The sound of the catastrophe itself.
- Era
- Immediately after Jerusalem's fall
- Attributed to
- Anonymous; traditionally Jeremiah
- Length
- 5 chapters · KJV — public domain
Background written for this app. Attribution and dating are stated as tradition or debate, not as settled fact.
Chapters
New to this? Where to start
Chapter 1 is a fine place to begin, but you do not have to read in order. Dots mark chapters that already have a hand-written study.