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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Commentary: Who Will Comfort You? | |
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| Poetry of Loss: A Defense | |
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| A Book of Comfort | |
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| A Work of Art | |
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| Occupation and Exile | |
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| Narrative Wreckage | |
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| The Marriage of Form and Content | |
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| Mixture of Literary Genres | |
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| Acrostic and Alphabetic Puzzles | |
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| Pain and Loss in Alphabetic Order | |
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| Relationships among Chapters | |
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| Multiple Testimonies | |
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| The City as Woman | |
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| The Missing Voice | |
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| Authorship | |
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| Places in the Canon and Titles | |
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| Musical Appropriations | |
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| There Is No One to Comfort You: Lamentations 1 | |
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| The Narrator's View of Zion's Fall | |
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| Daughter Zion Pleads for God to See | |
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| A Topography of Pain | |
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| Your Suffering Is Vast as the Sea: Lamentations 2 | |
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| Structure of the Poem | |
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| The Narrator as Participant in Zion's Reality | |
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| The Narrator's Conversion | |
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| The Narrator Pleads for Action | |
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| Mercies New Every Day: Lamentations 3 | |
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| Changes in Poetic Structures | |
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| The First Complaint | |
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| Divine Mercies | |
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| The Strongman's Second Complaint | |
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| Inexplicable Hope | |
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| Beaten Down: Lamentations 4 | |
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| Shrinking | |
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| Mercy Destroyed | |
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| The Community Remembers | |
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| Plea from an Occupied Land: Lamentations 5 | |
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| A Shorter, Less Structured Poem | |
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| Pain without Compromise | |
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| Peril All Around | |
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| Unsettled Longing | |
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| Reflections: A Theology of Witness | |
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| The Power of the Missing Voice | |
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| Many Views of Tragedy | |
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| Inspired Restraint | |
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| Denying Pain | |
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| The Family as School of Denial | |
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| Global Society and Hopelessness | |
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| Social Mechanisms of Denial | |
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| Denying Pain | |
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| Lamentations Denies Denial | |
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| Who Will Comfort You? A Theology of Witness | |
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| She Has No One to Comfort Her | |
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| The Narrator Sees | |
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| You Have to Come Close | |
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| Mirroring Pain | |
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| Poetry as Salvation | |
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| A Theology of Witness | |
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| Despair Work | |
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| The Abusing God | |
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| God's Character | |
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| The Dilemma | |
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| Lamentations' Portrait of God | |
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| Toward Another View | |
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| Enter the Conversation | |
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| Stammering toward the Unsayable | |
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| Prayer for the Wounded World | |
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| The Lament Form | |
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| Prayer as Truthfulness | |
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| Lamentations as Impassioned Hope | |
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| Lamentations as a Work of Justice | |
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| Prayers for the World | |
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| Lamentations and Liturgical Prayer | |
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| Daring Prayer | |
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| Epilogue: The Comforting God | |
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| A Spirituality of Wholeness | |
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| A Summons to Companionship | |
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| Theological Betweenness | |
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| A Biblical Response | |
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| Zion's Long Struggle | |
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| God Is Her Witness | |
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| Zion and the Suffering Servant | |
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| Bibliography | |