Prologue — Prologue of Jeremiah

^1:1a^ And it came to pass, after Israel was carried into captivity, and Jerusalem was desolate, that Jeremiah the prophet sat weeping, and mourned with this lamentation over Jerusalem, and with a sorrowful mind, sighing and moaning, he said:

At the beginning of this work is the prologue in which are described: the time period: after Israel was carried into captivity; the author: Jeremiah sat, crying as if on the land: come down, sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon (Isa 47:1); the material: he mourned in lamentation: for the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passes through them (Jer 9:10); the affections of the author: with a sorrowful mind; below: he has filled me with bitterness, he has inebriated me with wormwood (Lam 3:15).