The book of Lamentations is a poetic description of the "fall" of Jerusalem.
The Book of Lamentations refers to a gathering of poetic laments for the destruction of Jerusalem.
The book is incompletely a customary "city lament" grieving the renunciation of the city by God, its demolition, and a definitive return of the eternality, and somewhat a burial service requiem in which the dispossessed bewails and addresses the dead. The tone is distressing: God does not talk, the level of affliction is introduced as undeserved, and desires for future reclamation are minimal.