Lamentations

Poems mourning the fall of Jerusalem and expressing hope in God's mercy. ... click to read full summary of this book.

Our persecutors are swifter than the eagles of the heaven: they pursued us upon the mountains, they laid wait for us in the wilderness.

Those who chase us are faster than sky birds: they chased us on the hills, they hid to catch us in the open land.

* Work in progress - there may be occasional inaccuracies