Lamentations
Old Testament · 5 chapters · 156 verses
Every chapter of Lamentations is given below in Sir Lancelot Brenton's classic English translation of the Septuagint (LXX) — 156 verses in 5 chapters — each with the Greek text of the Septuagint in parallel and the translator's notes to the printed edition.
Patristic commentary has not yet been attached to Lamentations. The full corpus of the Fathers remains searchable in the Fathers Library.
Chapters
Chapter by Chapter
- Lamentations 1 And it came to pass, after Israel was taken captive, and Jerusalem made desolate, that Jeremias sat weeping, and lamented with this lamentation over…
- Lamentations 2 ALEPH. How has the Lord darkened in his wrath the daughter of Sion! he has cast down the glory of Israel from heaven to earth, and has not remembered…
- Lamentations 3 ALEPH. I am the man that sees poverty, through the rod of his wrath upon me.
- Lamentations 4 ALEPH. How will the gold be tarnished, and the fine silver changed! the sacred stones have been poured forth at the top of all the streets.
- Lamentations 5 Remember, O Lord, what has happened to us: behold, and look on our reproach.