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Copyright 2019 by Thomas L. constable Notes on Lamentations 2019 Edition Dr. Thomas L. constable TITLE AND POSITION The English title of this book comes from the Talmud,1 which called it " Lamentations " (Heb. qinoth). The Hebrew Bible has the title "Ah, how" or "Alas" or "How" (Heb. 'ekah), the first word in the first, second, and fourth chapters. The title in the Septuagint is "Wailings" (Gr. Threnoi). The position of Lamentations after Jeremiah in the English Bible follows the tradition of the Septuagint and Vulgate versions. They placed it there because of its connection with the destruction of Jerusalem, which Jeremiah recorded, and the Jewish tradition that Jeremiah wrote both books.
2019 Edition Dr. Constable's Notes on Lamentations 3 with the grief of the 'I am the man who has seen affliction' (3:1)."1 Almost all Lamentations scholars believe the date of composition fell
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