Story · 9 · Daughter Zion
The fifth lament breaks the pattern
In the final poem, the alphabet order collapses, though it keeps twenty-two lines. As the order falls apart, the whole community finds its voice.
Shared rage can unite a scattered people.
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'Remember, O Yhwh, what has befallen us,' the community cries, describing having to pay for its own water and wood. Using the rhythm of a funeral dirge, the poetry gives a dispersed people a common script of mourning and protest.
Bible reference: Lamentations 5:1–5
Source: Why the Bible Began, pp. 140–141
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