Lamentations: Quick Summary

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This is a short book with a collection of five poems that discuss the destruction of Jerusalem and the exile of its citizens to Babylon. The book both laments the faithlessness of the people of Judah and looks forward to the restoration of Jerusalem and God's people. While passages can be very heavy with imagery of pain and suffering, there is a repeated thread of optimism that all is not lost forever and that the strife the exiles were experiencing would only be temporary.