Lamentations
5 chapter
Lamentations: The whole book, chapter by chapter
Lamentations 1
Lamentations 1 opens in verse 1 with “How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow…”, reaches its middle movement near verse 11 with “All her people sigh, they seek bread; they have given their pleasant things for meat to…”, and closes in verse 22 with “Let all their wickedness come before thee; and do unto them, as thou hast done unto me…” Repeated or prominent terms include LORD, become, enemy, gone, people. Together, those details trace this chapter’s own movement from its opening to its conclusion.
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Lamentations 2 opens in verse 1 with “How hath the Lord covered the daughter of Zion with a cloud in his anger, and cast down…”, reaches its middle movement near verse 11 with “Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth…”, and closes in verse 22 with “Thou hast called as in a solemn day my terrors round about, so that in the day of the…” Repeated or prominent terms include LORD, daughter, Zion, anger, enemy. Together, those details trace this chapter’s own movement from its opening to its conclusion.
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Lamentations 3 opens in verse 1 with “I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.”, reaches its middle movement near verse 33 with “For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men.”, and closes in verse 66 with “Persecute and destroy them in anger from under the heavens of the LORD .” Repeated or prominent terms include LORD, hope, soul, cause, good. Together, those details trace this chapter’s own movement from its opening to its conclusion.
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Lamentations 4 opens in verse 1 with “How is the gold become dim! how is the most fine gold changed! the stones of the…”, reaches its middle movement near verse 11 with “The LORD hath accomplished his fury; he hath poured out his fierce anger, and hath…”, and closes in verse 22 with “The punishment of thine iniquity is accomplished, O daughter of Zion; he will no more…” Repeated or prominent terms include daughter, streets, become, depart, gold. Together, those details trace this chapter’s own movement from its opening to its conclusion.
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Lamentations 5 opens in verse 1 with “Remember, O LORD , what is come upon us: consider, and behold our reproach.”, reaches its middle movement near verse 11 with “They ravished the women in Zion, and the maids in the cities of Judah.”, and closes in verse 22 with “But thou hast utterly rejected us; thou art very wroth against us.” Repeated or prominent terms include hand, LORD, turned, bread, ceased. Together, those details trace this chapter’s own movement from its opening to its conclusion.
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