Books of the Bible / Lamentations
Random Verse from Lamentations
Roll a random verse from Lamentations -- 5 chapters, 154 verses -- with the same crypto-secure, unbiased draw as the main generator, scoped to just this book.
“Zion spreads out her hands. There is no one to comfort her. Yahweh has commanded concerning Jacob, that those who are around him should be his adversaries. Jerusalem is among them as an unclean thing.”
Lamentations 1:17
World English Bible (WEB) — public domain
About Lamentations (summary)
Lamentations is book 25 of 66 in the Protestant canon, part of the Old Testament. It runs 5 chapters and 154 verses in the World English Bible (WEB) — public domain -- both counts computed directly from this site's own copy of that data, the same pool this roller draws from, not entered by hand.
Frequently Asked Questions
How long is Lamentations compared to other books of the Bible?
Lamentations is the 38th longest of the 66 books by verse count, with 154 verses across 5 chapters -- an average of 30.8 verses per chapter.
What translation is the text drawn from?
The World English Bible (WEB) — public domain, a public-domain English translation, so every verse can be quoted here in full without a license. The reference and wording are looked up from this site's own copy of that same text, not paraphrased.
Where does Lamentations sit among the other Old Testament books?
Lamentations is book 25 of 39 in the Old Testament, and book 25 of 66 overall in the Protestant canon.
What books come right before and after Lamentations?
Jeremiah comes directly before it (52 chapters). Ezekiel comes directly after it (48 chapters).
How is the random verse actually chosen?
With the Web Crypto API's cryptographically-secure random number generator, picking uniformly among all 154 verses in Lamentations -- not a pseudo-random Math.random() draw, and not weighted toward well-known verses, so an obscure genealogy verse has exactly the same chance of coming up as a famous one.