Alternatively, or additionally, the acrostic form may be an attempt ... who all too often ignore the Old Testament? Lamentations is uncensored poetry about death and destruction.

Lamentations is the covenant congregation ... Each of the first four poems is a complete acrostic. The fifth poem contains 22 lines corresponding to the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet ...

Next week, The Book of Lamentations (Eicha – which in English ... The chapters are written as four different formats of alphabetic acrostic, with each proclaiming its isolation by going ...