Lamentations

These songs, traditionally credited to Jeremiah, reflect on the tragedy of a fallen people at the time of Jewish people’s defeat and exile to Babylon.

Each verse (or triplet of verses in Lamentations 3) starts with consecutive letters of the Hebrew alphabet, so each song is literally an A-Z (more literally an Aleph-Tav) of comprehensive human failure, desolation and suffering.

However, there is a little hope in the heart of this book. God’s love remains in the centre, preserving life, promising goodness to come, requiring anyone who wants this to wait and align their grieving heart with his.