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1992-09-08
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[1]
The literary form of Lamentations is necessarily obscured in the
translation. It is an acrostic dirge, the line arranged in couplets or
triplet, each of which begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In
the third Lament, which consists of sixty-six stanzas instead of
twenty-two, each \\line\\ of each triplet begins with the same letter, so
that the entire sixty six verses are required to give the twenty-two
letters of the alphabet. Thus verses 1-3 or our version form but three
lines of the original, each line beginning with A, etc.