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Lamentations Summary
We have detailed a brief summary of the Book of Lamentations for Bible Study or Sunday School lessons. Definition of a summary: A summary, synopsis or recap is a shortened version of the original. The main purpose of a summary is as a simplification highlighting the major points from the original and much longer version of the subject. This article contains an overview of the key events and Bible People found in Lamentations in the Bible. A brief synopsis the famous Bible Stories found in the scriptural text of the Book of Lamentations contained in this short summary of Lamentations.

Brief Summary of Lamentations - The KJV Bible Scriptures
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  • Lamentations is book number 25 in the Old Testament of the Bible. It contains 5 chapters.

  • Definition: A lamentation is a lament meaning a cry of sorrow and grief

  • KJV Bible Verses from Lamentations laments the desolation of Judah after the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BC

  • KJV Bible Verses from Lamentations is traditionally attributed to the prophet Jeremiah

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Short Summary of Lamentations - The Bible Stories of Lamentations taken from the Scriptures
A short summary of the Bible Stories of Lamentations taken from the Scriptures. An overview of the key events and Bible People found in Lamentations together with the famous Bible Stories and brief summary of the Book of Lamentations from the Bible.

  • The content summary of the the Book of Jeremiah are as follows:

    • KJV Bible Verses from Lamentations consists of five separate poems

    • In Lamentations 1 the prophet dwells on the manifold miseries oppressed by which the city sits as a solitary widow weeping sorely

    • In Lamentations 2 these miseries are described in connection with the national sins that had caused them

    • Lamentations 3 speaks of hope for the people of God. The chastisement would only be for their good; a better day would dawn for them

    • Lamentations 4 laments the ruin and desolation that had come upon the city and temple, but traces it only to the people's sins

    • Lamentations 5 is a prayer that Zion's reproach may be taken away in the repentance and recovery of the people.

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Additional Summary of the Book of Lamentations - Easton's Bible Dictionary
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The Book of Lamentations Called in the Hebrew canon 'Ekhah, meaning "How," being the formula for the commencement of a song of wailing. It is the first word of the book (see 2 Samuel 1:19-27). The LXX. adopted the name rendered "Lamentations" (Gr. threnoi = Hebrews qinoth) now in common use, to denote the character of the book, in which the prophet mourns over the desolations brought on the city and the holy land by Chaldeans. In the Hebrew Bible it is placed among the Khethubim. (see BIBLE.)

As to its authorship, there is no room for hesitancy in following the LXX. and the Targum in ascribing it to Jeremiah. The spirit, tone, language, and subject-matter are in accord with the testimony of tradition in assigning it to him. According to tradition, he retired after the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar to a cavern outside the Damascus gate, where he wrote this book. That cavern is still pointed out. "In the face of a rocky hill, on the western side of the city, the local belief has placed `the grotto of Jeremiah.' There, in that fixed attitude of grief which Michael Angelo has immortalized, the prophet may well be supposed to have mourned the fall of his country" (Stanley, Jewish Church).

The book consists of five separate poems. In chapter 1 the prophet dwells on the manifold miseries oppressed by which the city sits as a solitary widow weeping sorely. In chapter 2 these miseries are described in connection with the national sins that had caused them. Chapter 3 speaks of hope for the people of God. The chastisement would only be for their good; a better day would dawn for them. Chapter 4 laments the ruin and desolation that had come upon the city and temple, but traces it only to the people's sins. Chapter 5 is a prayer that Zion's reproach may be taken away in the repentance and recovery of the people.

The first four poems (chapters) are acrostics, like some of the Psalms (25, 34, 37, 119), i.e., each verse begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet taken in order. The first, second, and fourth have each twenty-two verses, the number of the letters in the Hebrew alphabet. The third has sixty-six verses, in which each three successive verses begin with the same letter. The fifth is not acrostic.

Lamentations Summary
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Lamentations Summary

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