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Poetry and prayerIsaiah 64:1–12
Isaiah 64:1–12 is a prayer asking God to act with visible power. The speaker remembers God’s greatness, admits the people’s sin, and pleads for mercy as they look at ruined cities and a burned house of praise.
Poetry and prayerJeremiah 9:1–26
Jeremiah 9:1–26 is a lament that grieves over ruin, exposes deceit, explains why judgement comes, and ends by redefining what counts as true honour before Yahweh.
Poetry and prayerJeremiah 14:19–22
This prayer speaks from pain, confession and hope. It asks hard questions about rejection and healing, admits sin, pleads for mercy, and ends by saying that only Yahweh can truly help.
Poetry and prayerJeremiah 17:12–18
This prayer moves from honouring Yahweh’s exalted place to asking for personal rescue. It names the danger of forsaking God, answers challenging voices, and ends with a sobering request about persecutors.
Poetry and prayerJeremiah 18:18–23
Jeremiah 18:18–23 records a hard prayer from someone under threat. The passage shows hostile speech, Jeremiah’s appeal to Yahweh, and his severe requests for judgement against those plotting harm.
Poetry and prayerJeremiah 32:16–25
Jeremiah’s prayer begins after he delivers a purchase deed and speaks directly to Yahweh. In these verses, he praises God’s power, recalls God’s acts, admits the people’s disobedience, and places a hard question before the Lord.
Poetry and prayerLamentations 1:1–22
Lamentations 1 is a grief-filled poem about Jerusalem after devastating loss. It speaks of the city as a woman who weeps, remembers former honour, admits sin, and cries to Yahweh from deep distress.
Poetry and prayerLamentations 2:1–22
Lamentations 2 is a sorrowful poem about Jerusalem’s fall. It speaks plainly about the Lord’s anger, the city’s ruin, the people’s grief, and a desperate cry for mercy.
Poetry and prayerLamentations 3:1–18
This poem speaks in the first person about deep suffering. The speaker describes affliction, darkness, pain and lost hope in words that are vivid and heavy, helping readers hear the weight of grief rather than rushing past it.
Poetry and prayerLamentations 3:19–36
This poem speaks from deep misery, then turns carefully toward hope. The speaker remembers bitterness honestly, recalls Yahweh’s mercy and faithfulness, and reflects on waiting quietly under hardship.
Poetry and prayerLamentations 3:37–66
This poem faces painful questions about God’s rule, human sin, deep grief and justice. It moves through confession, tears, remembered rescue and a final appeal for God to deal with those who do wrong.
Poetry and prayerLamentations 4:1–22
Lamentations 4 is a grief-filled poem about Zion’s collapse. It shows treasured things becoming ruined, famine turning life upside down, guilt being named, and a closing contrast between Zion’s completed punishment and Edom’s coming exposure.
Poetry and prayerLamentations 5:1–22
Lamentations 5 is a prayer asking Yahweh to look at the people’s suffering and restore them.
Poetry and prayerBaruch 2:19–26
This prayer speaks directly to God without claiming honour from earlier generations. It admits that the warning about Babylon was refused and that the judgement announced through the prophets has now taken effect.
Catholic additional books
Poetry and prayerBaruch 2:27–35
This prayer speaks to God with humility and hope. It remembers God’s mercy, recalls words spoken through Moses, and repeats a promise that scattered people can turn back, know the Lord, and be restored.
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Poetry and prayerBaruch 4:17–20
In this short prayer from the Catholic additional book of Baruch, a grieving voice admits weakness, speaks a hope of deliverance, and turns personal sorrow into ongoing prayer to God.
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Poetry and prayerEzekiel 19:1–14
Ezekiel 19 is a lament, a sorrowful song about Israel’s princes. It uses two pictures, a lioness with cubs and a vine with branches, to describe strength that became ruined and silenced.
Poetry and prayerEzekiel 27:1–36
This lament presents Tyre as a splendid ship at sea. Its beauty, workers, trade, and influence are described in detail before the poem turns sharply to wreck, mourning, and astonishment.
Poetry and prayerEzekiel 28:11–19
This lament speaks over the king of Tyre in rich poetic language. It moves from splendour and privilege to pride, violence and ruin, showing how greatness can be corrupted and brought low.
Poetry and prayerEzekiel 30:1–19
Ezekiel 30:1–19 is a lament that announces judgement on Egypt. With wailing language, repeated place names, and vivid images, the poem shows that Egypt’s strength, supporters, rulers, and idols will not endure before Yahweh.
Poetry and prayerEzekiel 32:1–16
Ezekiel 32:1–16 is a lament over Pharaoh king of Egypt. In strong poetic images, it describes capture, darkness, fear and desolation, showing that Egypt’s pride and power will be brought down by the Lord Yahweh.
Poetry and prayerDaniel (Greek) 2:20–23; Daniel (Greek) 2:31–45
These verses join Daniel’s praise to God with the report and explanation of the king’s dream.
Greek source variant
Poetry and prayerDaniel (Greek) 3:24–45; Daniel (Greek) 3:51–90
This Greek addition to Daniel keeps attention on words spoken in the furnace: Azarias’ prayer of confession and mercy, followed by a shared song that calls every part of creation to bless the Lord.
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Poetry and prayerDaniel 9:1–27
Daniel 9 combines a humble prayer with a difficult prophetic message. Daniel reads Jeremiah’s words about seventy years, confesses Israel’s sin, pleads for mercy on Jerusalem, and then receives God’s answer through Gabriel.
