Chapters 1, 2, and 4 of Lamentations are acrostics. What does an acrostic use as its format?
Answer The alphabet
Lamentations uses acrostics, beginning each verse with a letter from the alphabet, starting with A. The Hebrew alphabet had 22 letters which means chapters 1, 2, and 4 have 22 verses.
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