myself to do so, it’s a bit scary for me, whatever effect it has on other people. Lamentations is both scared and not scared of God’s anger. It’s an especially prominent theme in this chapter, which uses a range of words to describe these strong feelings of God’s. The Hebrew word for “anger” is also the word for one’s nose, which suggests it may link with the idea of snorting with anger. The word for “fury” comes from a verb that means “go over,” which suggests feelings that burst out from someone