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- Labour of Love
- Labour Party
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- Ladder
- Ladon
- Lady Day
- Laity
- Laius
- Lamb
- Lamb of God
- Lamech
- Lament
- Lammas
- Lamp
- Lampoon
- Land flowing with milk and honey
- Laodicea
- Lapiths
- Larceny
- Lassitude
- Last Day
- Last Judgement
- Last Plays
- Last Rites
- Last shall be first
- Last Supper
- Last Trump
- Latin
- Latinate
- Latitudinarian
- Latium
- Laura
- Laurel wreath
- Law
- Lay
- Lay person
- Lay preacher
- Lay Reader
- Laying on of hands
- Lazarus
- League of Nations
- Leah
- Least
- Leaven
- Lechery
A-Z: General definitions: Lament
Definition
Expression of grief. A lament is a literary form used to express grief and sometimes questioning caused by a crisis. The Old Testament book of Lamentations contains poems of lament, expressing grief, tragedy and suffering. A number of the Psalms are 'laments' or 'complaints' usually responding to a crisis, particularly an experience of personal suffering. See Woes.
A 'testament' is a covenant or binding agreement and is a term used in the Bible of God's relationship with his people). The sacred writings of Judaism (the Hebrew Bible). These also form the first part of the Christian Bible.
1. In the sense of 'Woe to someone': prophetic denunciations;
2. In the sense of 'woe is me', laments. Both forms are found in the prophetic books of the Bible (Jeremiah 48:46; Isaiah 6:5).
5 laments which reflect on the destruction of Jerusalem by the Babylonians in 587BCE, seen through the eyes of one unknown individual.
Big ideas: Exile
Essentially the hymn book of the Jerusalem temple, expressing the whole range of human emotion, from dark depression to exuberant joy; many attributed to David.
Big ideas: Psalms
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