Poem 1: Lamentation of Jerusalem’s misery and desertion (Lamentations 1:1–22)
Poem 2: Lamentation for the daughter of Zion, cut down in God’s wrath (Lamentations 2:1–22)
Poem 3: The poet’s grief and hope (Lamentations 3:1–66)
Poem 4: Horror of the siege (Lamentations 4:1–22)
Poem 5: Zion’s grace remembered and a petition for restoration (Lamentations 5:1–22)1
1 How lonely sits the city that was full of people! How like a widow has she become, she who was great among the nations! She who was a princess among the provinces has become a slave.