Lamentations

acrostic allusion alphabet ancient ancient Near East anger Bible biblical Book of Lamentations choral poetry city's commentary communal lament compassion complaint couplet daughter Zion destroyed destruction of Jerusalem Deut discourse distress divine Dobbs-Allsopp Edom effect emotions enemy enjambment Enlil evoked example exile Exod experience explicitly Ezek faith figure final first-person genre God's silence grief Hebrew Hebrew alphabet Hillers hope hurt imagery imagined implied individual interpretation Israel Judah language larger literally literary LORD lyric lyric poetry man's means Mesopotamian city laments Mesopotamian laments metaphor motif NRSV NRSV's Old Testament pain paratactic Parataxis personified city personified Zion perspective poem poem's poet poet's poetry poetry's present prophetic Psalm reader reality reference repetition resonate rhetorical ruins sense sequence Shekhinah specifically speech stanza suffering's survival symbol tations temple theodic theological throughout tions tradition translation ultimately verb verse violence voice words Zion's