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'Restore us to yourself, and we will return'

Lamentations ends with a plea: Why do you forget us? Renew our days as of old, unless you have utterly rejected us.

An ending without resolution.

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Later generations, living in better times, could read the book as proof that God did respond to their ancestors' outcry.

Bible reference: Lamentations 5:20–22

Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 144

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