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Lamentations

The Lamentations of Jeremiah used in the Roman Catholic service at matins in Holy Week; originally sung in plainsong and still surviving in that form, but from the early 16th century also used in polyphonic settings.



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Community liturgies appealing for help in the face of national distress appear in poems such as Psalms 44, 74, 79, 80, 83 and in the book of Lamentations.
Comfort for Jerusalem: the second Isaiah as counselor to refugees by Morrow, William S. / Biblical Theology Bulletin
God is perceived as the original source of this duality: the Book of Lamentations asks, "Out of the mouth of the Most High, do not both good and evil come?
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Freed from their scriptural monopoly, she "finds her story" in the book of Lamentations.
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