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Runyan set the poem to music, and it was published that same year by Hope Publishing Company and became popular among church groups. [1] The Biblical lyrics reference Lamentations 3:22-23. [ 2 ] The song was exposed to wide audiences after becoming popular with Dr. William Henry Houghton of the Moody Bible Institute and Billy Graham , who used ...
The destruction of the E-kiš-nu-ĝal is described in detail. The good house of the lofty untouchable mountain, E-kiš-nu-ĝal, was entirely devoured by large axes. The people of Šimaški and Elam, the destroyers, counted its worth as only thirty shekels. They broke up the good house with pickaxes. They reduced the city to ruin mounds. [13]
[28] [29] Completed towards the end of his life, c. 1002–03, [22] [30] [16] the work has been described as a monologue, a personal lyric and confessional poem, mystical and meditative. [31] It comprises 95 chapters and over 10,000 lines. [8] Almost all chapters (except two) are titled "Words unto God from the Depths of My Heart". [30]
The Laments belong to a Renaissance poetic genre of grief (threnody, or elegy), and the entire work comprises parts characteristic of epicedia: the first poems introduce the tragedy and feature a eulogy of the decedent; then come verses of lamentation, demonstrating the magnitude of the poet's loss and grief; followed at last by verses of ...
[3] [8] [24] In many manuscripts and for Synagogue use, Lamentations 5:21 is repeated after verse 22, so that the reading does not end with a painful statement, a practice which is also performed for the last verse of Isaiah, Ecclesiastes, and Malachi, [25] "so that the reading in the Synagogue might close with words of comfort". [26]
Lamentation by Giotto, 1305. The Lamentation of Christ [1] is a very common subject in Christian art from the High Middle Ages to the Baroque. [2] After Jesus was crucified, his body was removed from the cross and his friends mourned over his body.
Matthew Hunter, a viola soloist at the Berlin Philharmonic, set the Tallis Lamentations to be played by an ensemble of Stradivari violins, violas and violoncellos. The arrangement is for two antiphonally set string quintets. The group plays this piece only a couple of times every two years, when they can get the instruments together. [2] [3] [4]
A lament or lamentation is a passionate expression of grief, often in music, poetry, or song form. The grief is most often born of regret , or mourning . Laments can also be expressed in a verbal manner in which participants lament about something that they regret or someone that they have lost, and they are usually accompanied by wailing ...