The Book of Lamentations Gavin Lumsden In conducting this research

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The Book of Lamentations Gavin Lumsden In conducting this researchDistinguished poet and translator David R. Slavitt here provides a translation of and meditation upon the Book of Lamentations, the biblical account of the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem in 587 B. C.,on the ninth day of the Jewish month of Av Tish'a b'Av. (Six centuries later the Romans destroyed the second Temple on the same day.) Most of the Jewish population was deported to Babylon, and the ensuing period came to be known as the Babylonian