Lamentations teaches us how to mourn – how to weep – how to lament. In the Hebrew Bible, Lamentations is found in between Ecclesiastes and Esther. The order is Ecclesiastes, Lamentations, Esther, Daniel – books that reflect on the trials of life in exile.
But the Greek translation of the Hebrew scriptures placed it right after Jeremiah – and there are lots of allusions to Jeremiah’s prophecies, so it is fitting to consider it in that context as well.
But I think that it is better to think of Lamentations in terms of wisdom literature than as a “prophet.” We are not dealing especially with sermons as much as with songs.
There is a tension in Lamentations (as in so much of OT poetry) between the acknowledgment of God’s faithfulness and the reality of suffering – indeed, the realization that God has brought this suffering.
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