translation_id: net-engnet

book_id: LAM

label: NET study note

text: The speaking voice is now that of a choir singing the community’s lament in the first person plural. The poem is not an alphabetic acrostic like the preceding chapters but has 22 verses, the same as the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet.


text: For the theological allusion that goes beyond physical rest, see, e.g., Deut 12:10; 25:19 ; Josh 1:13; 11:23 ; 2 Sam 7:1, 11 ; 1 Chron 22:18 ; 2 Chron 14:6-7