Book of Lamentations
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The Book of Lamentations is a collection of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem in 586 BCE. In the Hebrew Bible, it appears in the Ketuvim as one of the Five Megillot alongside the Song of
Image from "Jeremiah's Lament" of Francysk Skaryna (1517–1519), in the Taraškievica orthography of the Belarusian language
Greek translation of Lamentations 1:1–1:11 in the Codex Sinaiticus
Jeremiah Lamenting the Destruction of Jerusalem (Rembrandt)
The first page of the Book of Lamentations in a codex of the Kethuvim in the Babylonian Hebrew Masoretic tradition (10th century).
Jeremiah
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Jeremiah, also called Jeremias, and occasionally in older English texts Jeremy, was one of the major prophets of the Hebrew Bible. According to Jewish tradition, Jeremiah authored the book that bears
Book of Lamentations
…the Song of Songs, Book of Ruth, Ecclesiastes, and the Book of Esther. In the Christian Old Testament, it follows the Book of Jeremiah, for the prophet Jeremiah is traditionally understood to have been its author. By the mid-19th century, German scholars doubted Jeremiah's authorship, a view that has since…
Jeremiah on the Ruins of Jerusalem by Horace Vernet, 1844
Russian Orthodox icon of Jeremias
Irmiya taming animals in the wilderness.
Jeremiah by Enrico Glicenstein