Song at the Sea (Exodus 15), Leningrad Codex
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Deuteronomy 32:1–43
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The Song of Songs
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Isaiah 5:1–7
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Lamentations 1–3 (selections)
Lamentations uses moving imagery to memorialize the catastrophe of the destruction of Jerusalem.