The Lamentations of Jeremiah

Lamentations 3:31-32; ASV

31 For the Lord will not cast off for ever.

32 For though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his lovingkindnesss.

Lamentations is a five-poem dirge, a funeral song written for the fallen city of Jerusalem (4:11-13).

Jeremiah writes his lament in acrostic or alphabetical fashion.

Beginning each chapter with the first letter A (aleph) he progresses verse by verse through the Hebrew alphabet, literally weeping from A to Z.

The Purpose of Lamentations: To teach people that to disobey GOD is to invite disaster, and to show that GOD suffers when His people suffer.