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Apocryphal Lamentations A — Source Text

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Hebrew, Qumran Cave 4. Apparatus-verified readings only, after Qimron composite edition (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0), pp. 888–889. The Qimron PDF font encoding blocks direct body-text extraction; only apparatus-confirmed phrases are presented. Lacunae marked with [...]; no text conjectured.

4Q450 (Apparatus-Confirmed)

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[...] אם יש מכאוב כמכאבי [...]
[...]
[...] נשפך לארץ כבדי [...]
   ישפך לארץ מררתי [...]
[...]

(4Q450 Fragment 1 — Lamentations 1:12 and 2:11 echoes confirmed in apparatus, p. 888.)

4Q451 (Apparatus-Confirmed)

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[...] ולא נתנם לכלה [...]
[...] ובאתות ובמופתים וביד חזקה [...]
   בימין עוזכה [...]
[...]

(4Q451 Fragments 1–2 — Deuteronomy 26:8 / Nehemiah 9:10 formula; apparatus p. 888.)

4Q452 (Apparatus-Confirmed)

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[...] מי ימלל גבורות ה' [...]
[...]

(4Q452 Fragment 1 — Psalm 106:2 verbatim; apparatus p. 889.)

4Q453 (Apparatus-Confirmed)

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[...] איככה [...]
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(4Q453 Fragment 1 — Lamentations lament formula; apparatus p. 889.)

Source Colophon

Apparatus-verified Hebrew after Elisha Qimron, The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew and Aramaic Texts (Zenodo 2020, CC BY 4.0), pp. 888–889. Biblical cross-references: Lam 1:12, 2:11; Deut 26:8; Neh 9:10; Ps 106:2. Lacunae marked with [...]; no text conjectured beyond apparatus-confirmed readings.

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