Lamentations - 𐤀𐤉𐤊𐤄

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Canonical Versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Masoretic Text of Lamentations - in Hebrew	איכה (לפי נוסח חמסורה) מקור: מִקְרָא עַל־פִּי הַמָּסוֹרָה	Leningrad Codex
Peshitta Lamentations - in Syriac Aramaic	ܐܘܠܝ̈ܬܐ ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה	Codex Ambrosianus
Ethiopic Lamentations - in Ge'ez	ሰቆቃወ ፡ ኤርምያስ ፡ ነቢይ ። ዐይን: Johannes Bachmann	Likely typical "early" mss.: EMML 2080 (14th-16th c.) [p: 126]; EAP 704/1/5 (early 15th c.); Gunda Gunde 63 (15th c.) [p: 139]; Gunda Gunde 183 ((15th c.) [p: 163]; EMML 1768 (late 15th c.) [p: 153]; EMIP 1029 (15th-16th c.) [p: 110]; EMML 7584 (16th c.) [p: 179]; d'Abbadie 55 (16th c.) Likely typical "standardized" mss.: EMML 6686 (17th c.) [p: 190]; BL Or 496 (17th c.)[p: 241]; Gunda Gunde 106 (1682-1706) [p: 159]; EMIP 945 (18th c.) [p: 54]; Unesco 10-12 (18th c.) [p: 72] Likely typical "modern" ms.: IES 77 (Haile Selassie Bible) (1934) [p: 488r] Beta Israel ms. (potential "outlier" text-type): Berlin Peter 42 (15th c.) Potential "outlier" mss.: Cambridge Ms. 1570 (translated by Jacob the Israelite) (1588); D'Abbadie 35 (17th c.); EMML 3439 (18th c.) [p: 103]; Unesco 10-4 (late 17th-early 18th c.) [p: 181]
Septuagint Lamentations - in Koine Greek	Θρήνοι Ιερεμίου: Rahlfs' edition πηγή: nocr; Swete's edition πηγή: biblehub; Peter Gentry's alternative reconstruction of some verses πηγή: NETS	Codex Vaticanus (p: 1133)
Vulgate Lamentations - in Latin	lamentationes fons: vulgate.org	Codex Gigas

Semi-canonical and non-canonical versions

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
Dead Sea Scrolls versions of Lamentations - in Hebrew	ספר איכה: נוסחי מגילות ים המלח מקור: הדרך ליהוה	All Dead Sea Scrolls Lamentations fragments
Vetus Latina ("Old Latin") Lamentations - in Latin	threni, id est lamentationes jeremiae prophetae fons: Petri Sabatier
Early Palestinian Christian version of Lamentations - in "Syriac" Aramaic	general fragment ܡܒܘܥܐ: ארמיטה
Jewish Targumim - in Jewish Aramaic: -- (SHOW/HIDE)
Western recension of Targum Five Megillot on Lamentations (semi-canonical)	תרגום ה' מגילות על איכה (נוסח המערב) מקור: מקראות גדולות של ספריא critical edition מקור: ארמיטה Sperber's less-reliable critical text מקור: ארמיטה	Ms. Paris Hebrew 110 (The National Library of France)
Yemenite recension of Targum Five Megillot on Lamentations (semi-canonical)	תרגום ה' מגילות על איכה (נוסח תימן) מקור: ארמיטה	BL Or 1476

Related quasi-biblical texts

Version	Modern or critical edition	Selected manuscript/s
"Laments" from Qumran - in Hebrew	קינה על העם וגדוליו (primarly 4Q439), קינה א (4Q445), קינה ב (4Q453) מקור: מאגרים	All Dead Sea Scrolls "Lament" fragments

Significantly related biblical texts:

Books in the tradition of Jeremiah:

• Jeremiah
• Baruch
• Epistle of Jeremiah
• Syriac Apocalypse of Baruch ("2 Baruch")
• Greek Apocalypse of Baruch ("3 Baruch")
• "Rest of the Words of Baruch" ("4 Baruch")
• Ethiopic Apocalypse of Baruch ("5 Baruch")

Odes or Canticles: presents liturgical recensions of Lamentations ch. 5.

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