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Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing, moaning and/or crying. [1] Laments constitute some of the oldest forms of writing, and examples exist across human cultures.
Chapter 4 laments the ruin and desolation of the city and temple, but traces it to the people's sins. Chapter 5 (some) is a prayer that Zion's reproach may be taken away in the repentance and recovery of the people. In some Greek copies, and in the Latin Vulgate, Syriac, and Arabic versions, the last chapter is headed "The Prayer of Jeremiah". [5]
Laments for Josiah, a biblical passage in 2 Chronicles Lamento Borincano ('Puerto Rican Mourning'), a composition by Rafael Hernández Marín Topics referred to by the same term
Articles related to laments, passionate expressions of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret, or mourning. Subcategories.
The other city laments are: The Lament for Sumer and Ur; The Lament for Nippur; The Lament for Eridu; The Lament for Uruk; The Book of Lamentations of the Old Testament, which bewails the destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon in the sixth century B.C., is similar in style and theme to these earlier Mesopotamian laments.
In the five known Mesopotamian City Laments, the lament is written in voice of the city's tutelary goddess. [citation needed]The destruction of the city, the mass killing of its inhabitants, and the loss of its central temple are vividly described.
The words are thought to have been constituted of stock poetic elements (the listing of the genealogy of the deceased, praise for the deceased, emphasis on the woeful condition of those left behind, etc.) set to vocal lament. [7] Words of lament were interspersed with non-lexical vocables, that is sounds that are without meaning. [2]
The death wail is a keening, mourning lament, generally performed in ritual fashion soon after the death of a member of a family or tribe.Examples of death wails have been found in numerous societies, including among the Celts of Europe; and various indigenous peoples of Asia, the Americas, Africa, New Zealand and Australia.