Verse1: Call it a poem or a song, this is definitely a lamentation. When you read or sing or perform it, think of all the disappointments, dashed hope, needless deaths, squandered future, corrupt ...
“The Book of Lamentations: A Meditation and Translation” by David R. Slavitt (Johns Hopkins University Press. $15.95). David R. Slavitt’s new translation of Eicha (Lamentations) demonstrates his ...
When the Sinaitic Covenant was renewed to the hosts of Israel, poised in the plains of Moab for the conquest of Canaan, the ancient promises of blessing were repeated; but so too were the curses that ...