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Lamentations opens with “How Doth the City Sit Solitary” and carries its history toward “Turn Thou Us Unto Thee.” Five poems, four of them alphabetical, written by somebody who was there. The last poem drops the alphabet, as though the form itself has given out.
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Lamentations 1–2
Five poems, four of them alphabetical, written by somebody who was there. The city that was full of people sits like a widow, her friends have all turned on her, and the roads to Zion mourn because nobody comes to the feasts any more. The second poem refuses to let God off the hook: he has bent his bow like an enemy. Children faint in the street asking their mothers for bread.
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Lamentations 3
The middle poem is the longest and the most personal, sixty six verses with three lines to every letter. I am the man that hath seen affliction, walled in, hunted, my teeth broken with gravel. Then at the exact centre of the book everything turns on one remembered thing: his mercies are new every morning, great is thy faithfulness. And then it goes back to weeping, without pretending the turn has fixed anything.
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Lamentations 4
The fourth poem sets what was beside what is, and the detail is unbearable. Princes who were purer than snow are not recognised in the street. Women who were tender cooked their own children during the siege. It says plainly that those killed by the sword came off better than those who starved slowly.
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Lamentations 5
The last poem drops the alphabet, as though the form itself has given out. It is a plain complaint in the first person plural: our inheritance has gone to strangers, we pay money for our own water, servants rule over us, the crown is fallen from our head. It asks God to turn them back and renew their days, and then adds a line nobody would invent: unless thou hast utterly rejected us.
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Lamentations 1:1–5:22
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Lamentations
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