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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 our culture today probably is American blues music or the “funeral dirge” of the last century. In the Hebrew editions of the Bible, Lamentations is anonymous. It is not located right after Jeremiah but rather in the third section of the canon called the “Writings.” Following Ecclesiastes and preceding Esther in the Hebrew Bible, the book of Lamentations is part of a five-book section called the Megillot (“Scrolls”), which is read in Jewish tradition on major
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