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This careful commentary makes the power of the book of Lamentations come alive. In the face of sufferings, agonies, and the brutal realities of life, the Lamentations poem speaks of faith as trust in God, even in the midst of divine silence and human pain. All who preach and teach will benefit from this rich resource.

Lamentations, like other biblical texts, survives in a mostly decontextualized state. We have no external information about important issues such as date of composition, authorship, general provenance, or setting and nature of performance. So, if we are to know anything at all about these and other issues, it must be deduced almost solely out of the internal evidence of the text itself—aided of course by the kinds of questions posed. The indefinite nature
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