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Lamentations 1:1
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Isaiah 1:21
Lamentations 1:1
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Baruch 4:12
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Deuteronomy 28:65
Lamentations 1:9
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Leviticus 15:19
Lamentations 1:9
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Ezekiel 36:17
Lamentations 1:10
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Deuteronomy 23:3
Lamentations 1:10
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Lamentations over the Destruction of Ur 393
Lamentations 1:11
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Lamentations over the Destruction of Ur 307
Lamentations 1:15
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Revelation 19:15
Lamentations 1:20
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Psalms of Solomon 2:14
Lamentations 1:20
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Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur 400
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Ezekiel 7:15
Lamentations 1:20
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Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur 400
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Jeremiah 14:18
Lamentations 2:10
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Isaiah 52:2
Lamentations 2:11
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1 Maccabees 2:9
Lamentations 2:13
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Jeremiah 8:21
Lamentations 2:13
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Nahum 3:7
Lamentations 2:15
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Matthew 27:39
Lamentations 2:15
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Micah 6:16
Lamentations 2:19
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Isaiah 62:6
Lamentations 2:20
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Leviticus 26:29
Lamentations 2:21
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Lamentation Over the Destruction of Sumer and Ur 12
Lamentations 3:6
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Psalm 143:3
Lamentations 3:8
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Job 19:7
Lamentations 3:15
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Jeremiah 9:15
Lamentations 3:22
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Exodus 34:6
Lamentations 3:30
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Matthew 5:39
Lamentations 3:30
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Isaiah 50:6
Lamentations 3:45
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1 Corinthians 4:13
Lamentations 3:48
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Jeremiah 14:17
Lamentations 4:2
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Lamentations over the Destruction of Ur 211
Lamentations 4:3
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LXX Lamentations 4:3
Lamentations 4:6
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Deuteronomy 29:23
Lamentations 4:10
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Leviticus 26:29
Lamentations 4:15
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Isaiah 52:11
Lamentations 4:21
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Isaiah 51:17
Lamentations 4:21
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Genesis 9:21
Lamentations 4:21
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Targum Lamentations 4:21
Lamentations 5:14
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Lamentations over the Destruction of Ur 356
Lamentations 5:18
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Lamentations over the Destruction of Ur 269
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Summary
Date: 5th Century B.C.E.
The book of Lamentations commemorates the destruction of the First Temple in 586 BCE. The book\ is a collection of five laments, jn moving poetry, reflecting on the suffering and dislocation that resulted from the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple and the exile that followed. It is the Bible's primary literature of destrucĀtion and became the paradigm for later Jewish literature of destruction. Lamentations is a form of mourning for a destruction that was to become a linchpin in Jewish history and Jewish religious thought.
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