unless you have utterly rejected usand are angry with us beyond measure.Footnotes for the Book of Lamentationsa This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.b 1 Or How the Lord in his anger / has treated Daughter Zion with contempt!c 3 Or off / all the strength; or every kingd 3 Horn here symbolises strength.e 17 Horn here symbolises strength.a This chapter is an acrostic poem, the verses of which begin with the successive letters of the Hebrew alphabet.