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Lament A (4Q445) — Source Text

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Hebrew, Qumran Cave 4. Apparatus-verified readings only, after Qimron composite edition (Zenodo, CC BY 4.0), p. 883. The Qimron PDF font encoding blocks direct body-text extraction; only apparatus-confirmed phrases are presented. Lacunae marked with [...]; no text conjectured.

4Q445 Fragment 1, Column i (Apparatus-Confirmed)

[...] צדיק [...] כפי [...]
[...] עלות תור [...]
[...] גויי [...]
[...] כלכם לי צררו [...]
   רבת צררוני מנעורי
   גם לא יכלו לי [...]
[...] ומובלה אני ופכי [...]
[...]

"רבת צררוני מנעורי גם לא יכלו לי" = Psalm 129:2 (apparatus). Qimron p. 883.

4Q445 Fragment 1, Column ii (Apparatus-Confirmed)

[...] [...]
[...] שחרחרת [...]
[...]

"שחרחרת" and "קטלטל" = Song of Songs 1:6 (apparatus). Qimron p. 883.

Source Colophon

Apparatus-verified Hebrew after Elisha Qimron, The Dead Sea Scrolls: The Hebrew and Aramaic Texts (Zenodo 2020, CC BY 4.0), p. 883. Biblical cross-references: Psalm 129:2; Song of Songs 1:6. Lacunae marked with [...]; no text conjectured beyond apparatus-confirmed readings.

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