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Lamentations crossword

12 clues from the book of Lamentations. Check your answers as you go, or print it out for your group.

Lamentations crossword12 words

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Across

  1. 3 Southern kingdom taken into captivity (5)
  2. 4 Mourning cloth worn by Jerusalem's virgins (9)
  3. 6 Sinful city overthrown in a moment (5)
  4. 8 Stones that broke the writer's teeth (6)
  5. 10 Holy hill whose ways mourn (4)
  6. 11 Bitter herb that filled the speaker (8)

Down

  1. 1 Holy city whose affliction is remembered (9)
  2. 2 Bitterness remembered along with wormwood (4)
  3. 3 Patriarch whose habitations were swallowed up (5)
  4. 5 What covered the afflicted man (5)
  5. 7 Low pit where the writer called (7)
  6. 9 Daughter told to rejoice and be glad (4)

Answers

3 across: Southern kingdom taken into captivity

Answer: JUDAH — Lamentations 1:3

4 across: Mourning cloth worn by Jerusalem's virgins

Answer: SACKCLOTH — Lamentations 2:10

6 across: Sinful city overthrown in a moment

Answer: SODOM — Lamentations 4:6

8 across: Stones that broke the writer's teeth

Answer: GRAVEL — Lamentations 3:16

10 across: Holy hill whose ways mourn

Answer: ZION — Lamentations 1:4

11 across: Bitter herb that filled the speaker

Answer: WORMWOOD — Lamentations 3:15

1 down: Holy city whose affliction is remembered

Answer: JERUSALEM — Lamentations 1:7

2 down: Bitterness remembered along with wormwood

Answer: GALL — Lamentations 3:19

3 down: Patriarch whose habitations were swallowed up

Answer: JACOB — Lamentations 2:2

5 down: What covered the afflicted man

Answer: ASHES — Lamentations 3:16

7 down: Low pit where the writer called

Answer: DUNGEON — Lamentations 3:55

9 down: Daughter told to rejoice and be glad

Answer: EDOM — Lamentations 4:21