https://doi.org/10.26142/stgd-2025-011
This article analyzes the phenomenon of divine silence as presented in the Book of Lamentations, with particular attention to Lamentations 3 as the structural and theological center of the composition. It argues that the silence of God in the poem does not signify His absence but creates a theological space that provokes existential questioning, protest, and—despite suffering—hope in God’s hidden yet active presence. Employing a literary and canonical-theological approach, the study reads Lamentations as a canonical final form, attentive to its internal structures, intertextual resonances, and characteristic poetic devices of the Hebrew Scriptures. The analysis explores how imagery, repetition, and the shifting voices of the poem negotiate the tension between divine hiddenness and human suffering. It demonstrates that rather than suppressing lament, divine silence intensifies the dialectic between trust and protest. The article contributes to biblical theology by showing how Lamentations models a posture of faithful resistance and patient waiting before a God who remains hidden but never absent.
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