Did you know...
...
the book of Lamentations has five chapters. Chapters 1, 2, 4, and 5
each have 22 verses. In chapters 1, 2, and 4, each verse begins with a
letter of the Hebrew alphabet. The fifth chapter, although having twenty
verses, does not follow this alphabet ("alef-bet", more accurately)
pattern.
Chapter 3 has 66 verses, and retains the Hebrew alphabet pattern, except there's three verses per letter instead of just one.
In
addition, there's a specific poetic pattern (three stresses followed by
two) which the first four chapters follow; the fifth chapter does not
have this pattern.
Few
English Bible translations make either of these points clear to the
reader. The Holman Christian Standard Bible, among a few others, does
reveal the acrostic pattern, as you can see at Biblegateway.com .
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