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The destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 587 BC is the likely setting for the book of Lamentations. This was the most traumatic event in all of Old Testament history, with its extreme human suffering, devastation of the ancient city, national humiliation, and the undermining of all that was thought to be theologically guaranteed like the Davidic monarchy, the city of Zion, and the...

Israel lived by memory and hope. The whole narrative nature of Old Testament scripture proclaims that truth. They looked back to what God had done in their past, and they looked forward to what God would do in fulfilment of the promises that had driven their past and guaranteed their future. Memory and hope dominate verses 18–39, but wildly oscillating between negative and positive. To start off with, as we have
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