The Book of Lamentations

Goldingay provides perhaps the best single commentary for someone wanting a comprehensive and dependable guide to Lamentations. He combines careful attention to the Hebrew text with literary, historical, and theological sensitivity, while remaining unusually alert to the book’s unresolved tensions. Particularly valuable is his refusal to reduce Lamentations either to a straightforward defence of divine judgment or to a protest against God: confession, grief, accusation, faith, doubt, explanation, and appeal all remain genuine parts of the book’s witness. His concept of Lamentations as a kind of unstable or polyphonic unity is especially helpful for understanding why its different voices should not simply be harmonized. Goldingay is occasionally less strikingly original than Berlin or Dobbs-Allsopp, but his breadth, balance, clarity, and sustained usefulness make this arguably the strongest primary commentary available.

Solid commentary on Lamentations. I used it with House's, and it was everything I needed to preach through it.

John Goldingay is quite helpful. I used this alongside House's commentary, and it gave me everything I needed.