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Jeremiah and Lamentations showcase a dark time in Judah’s history, before and during the exile to Babylon. Here is insightful commentary to help the modern reader and teacher understand and apply these important but often neglected portions of Scripture. Jeremiah brings God’s indictment against the people for repeated and egregious covenant violations. This is accompanied by a call to repentance...

In Hebrew the title of this book is ’eykah (“how”), which is the first word in the Hebrew text of Lamentations 1:1. The Septuagint (LXX), the early Greek translation of the Old Testament, gave it the descriptive title Threni, which means “lamentations.” This was followed by the Latin Vulgate translation, which titled it Lamenta, also meaning “lamentations.” Thus modern English translations have followed the Greek and Latin tradition in calling this book
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