{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/sco/lam003.htm","path":"bib/cmt/sco/lam003.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/sco/lam003.htm","text":"The Scofield Bible Commentary, by Cyrus Ingerson Scofield, [1917]\nThe literary form of Lamentations is necessarily obscured in the translation. It is an acrostic dirge, the line arranged in couplets or triplet, each of which begins with a letter of the Hebrew alphabet. In the third Lament, which consists of sixty-six stanzas instead of twenty-two, each line of each triplet begins with the same letter, so that the entire sixty six verses are required to give the twenty-two letters of the alphabet. Thus verses 1-3 (Lam 3:1-3) of our version form but three lines of the original, each line beginning with A, etc.\nredeemed\nHebrew, \"goel,\" Redemption (Kinsman type).\n(See Scofield) - (Isa 59:20).","title":"The Scofield Bible Commentary: Lamentations: Lamentations Chapter 3","type":"page"}