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In Lamentations, we read of the unbearable grief experienced by a group of believers. Leslie Allen suggests the book can be read as the script of a liturgy performed to help the people of God come to terms with the fall of Jerusalem and the national catastrophe it entailed. It reveals God’s sometimes hidden support for those who grieve and for their caregivers. In this unique commentary A Liturgy...
As the book stands, there is a growing intensity in the first three poems. In the exposition I compare this trend with the development in the first two chapters of the book of Joel, as far as Joel 2:17. Both texts move steadily and with increasing passion toward a dynamic appeal to the congregation to utter a prayer of repentance, and they both support that appeal with an assurance of Yahweh’s grace and compassion. The third poem represents an interim climax, to which the factor of the intensified
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