Lamentations
In these JEREMIAH laments in a most pathetical manner the miseries of his people, and the destruction of JERUSALEM and the temple, in Hebrew verses, beginning with different letters according to the order of the Hebrew alphabet.
{1:And it came to pass}, after Israel was carried into captivity, and Jerusalem was desolate,
Aleph. How hath the Lord covered with obscurity the daughter of Sion in his wrath! how hath he cast down from heaven to the earth the glorious one of Israel, and hath not remembered his footstool in the day of his anger.
Aleph. I am the man that see my poverty by the rod of his indignation.
Aleph. How is the gold become dim, the finest colour is changed, the stones of the sanctuary are scattered in the top of every street?
Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider and behold our reproach.