Book of Lamentations

Lamentations - book of the Hebrew Bible. This book is the 1055^th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article “Book of Lamentations” in English Wikipedia has 82.7 points for quality (as of July 1, 2026). The article contains 70 references and 15 sections.

This article has the best quality in Hebrew Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Since the creation of article “Book of Lamentations”, its content was written by 225 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 1245 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

Lamentations is on the 1055^th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 666 times in English Wikipedia and cited 5618 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

• Local (English): #1847 in October 2001
• Global: #2103 in October 2001

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

• Local (English): #64136 in August 2024
• Global: #31145 in August 2024

There are 44 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2026 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

#	Language	Quality grade	Quality score
1	Hebrew (he) מגילת איכה		95
2	English (en) Book of Lamentations		82.6795
3	Spanish (es) Libro de las Lamentaciones		69.4195
4	Turkish (tr) Ağıtlar Kitabı		42.2393
5	Indonesian (id) Kitab Ratapan		35.6983
6	Chinese (zh) 耶利米哀歌		35.3344
7	Polish (pl) Lamentacje Jeremiasza		35.1939
8	Tamil (ta) புலம்பல் (நூல்)		33.9029
9	Portuguese (pt) Livro das Lamentações		32.5058
10	Norwegian (no) Klagesangene		30.2948

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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

The most popular language versions of the article "Book of Lamentations" in all the time

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Book of Lamentations		2 221 008
2	Spanish (es) Libro de las Lamentaciones		577 116
3	Hebrew (he) מגילת איכה		433 500
4	Portuguese (pt) Livro das Lamentações		246 435
5	German (de) Klagelieder Jeremias		224 766
6	Russian (ru) Плач Иеремии		205 118
7	French (fr) Livre des Lamentations		195 335
8	Japanese (ja) 哀歌		157 618
9	Italian (it) Libro delle Lamentazioni		127 771
10	Indonesian (id) Kitab Ratapan		121 033

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

The most popular language versions of the article "Book of Lamentations" in June 2026

#	Language	Popularity award	Relative popularity
1	English (en) Book of Lamentations		6 747
2	Spanish (es) Libro de las Lamentaciones		1 161
3	Russian (ru) Плач Иеремии		794
4	German (de) Klagelieder Jeremias		610
5	Japanese (ja) 哀歌		517
6	Hebrew (he) מגילת איכה		508
7	Chinese (zh) 耶利米哀歌		503
8	Italian (it) Libro delle Lamentazioni		474
9	French (fr) Livre des Lamentations		469
10	Portuguese (pt) Livro das Lamentações		453

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

Language versions of the article "Book of Lamentations" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	English (en) Book of Lamentations		225
2	Hebrew (he) מגילת איכה		181
3	German (de) Klagelieder Jeremias		111
4	French (fr) Livre des Lamentations		85
5	Spanish (es) Libro de las Lamentaciones		66
6	Dutch (nl) Klaagliederen		61
7	Russian (ru) Плач Иеремии		49
8	Italian (it) Libro delle Lamentazioni		48
9	Polish (pl) Lamentacje Jeremiasza		34
10	Portuguese (pt) Livro das Lamentações		31

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

Language versions of the article "Book of Lamentations" with the highest AI in June 2026

#	Language	AI award	Relative AI
1	Basque (eu) Erosten Liburua		1
2	Hebrew (he) מגילת איכה		1
3	Polish (pl) Lamentacje Jeremiasza		1
4	Arabic (ar) سفر مراثي إرميا		0
5	Belarusian (be) Кніга Плач Ераміі		0
6	Bulgarian (bg) Книга Плач Иеремиев		0
7	Catalan (ca) Llibre de les lamentacions		0
8	Czech (cs) Kniha Pláč		0
9	Danish (da) Klagesangene		0
10	German (de) Klagelieder Jeremias		0

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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

Language versions of the article "Book of Lamentations" with the highest Citation Index (CI)

#	Language	CI award	Relative CI
1	English (en) Book of Lamentations		666
2	Hebrew (he) מגילת איכה		336
3	Indonesian (id) Kitab Ratapan		315
4	French (fr) Livre des Lamentations		242
5	Italian (it) Libro delle Lamentazioni		221
6	German (de) Klagelieder Jeremias		213
7	Portuguese (pt) Livro das Lamentações		206
8	Russian (ru) Плач Иеремии		203
9	Ukrainian (uk) Плач Єремії		190
10	Chinese (zh) 耶利米哀歌		164

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#	Language	Value
ar	Arabic سفر مراثي إرميا
be	Belarusian Кніга Плач Ераміі
bg	Bulgarian Книга Плач Иеремиев
ca	Catalan Llibre de les lamentacions
cs	Czech Kniha Pláč
da	Danish Klagesangene
de	German Klagelieder Jeremias
el	Greek Θρήνοι (βιβλίο)
en	English Book of Lamentations
eo	Esperanto Libro de la Plorkanto
es	Spanish Libro de las Lamentaciones
eu	Basque Erosten Liburua
fa	Persian کتاب مراثی
fi	Finnish Valitusvirret
fr	French Livre des Lamentations
gl	Galician Libro das Lamentacións
he	Hebrew מגילת איכה
hr	Croatian Tužaljke (knjiga)
hu	Hungarian Siralmak könyve
id	Indonesian Kitab Ratapan
it	Italian Libro delle Lamentazioni
ja	Japanese 哀歌
ka	Georgian გოდებანი იერემია წინასწარმეტყველისანი
ko	Korean 애가
la	Latin Lamentationes
lt	Lithuanian Raudų knyga
ms	Malay Kitab Ratapan
nl	Dutch Klaagliederen
no	Norwegian Klagesangene
pl	Polish Lamentacje Jeremiasza
pt	Portuguese Livro das Lamentações
ro	Romanian Plângerile lui Ieremia
ru	Russian Плач Иеремии
sh	Serbo-Croatian Tužaljke (knjiga)
simple	Simple English Book of Lamentations
sk	Slovak Kniha Náreky
sr	Serbian Плач Јеремијин
sv	Swedish Klagovisorna
ta	Tamil புலம்பல் (நூல்)
th	Thai หนังสือเพลงคร่ำครวญ
tr	Turkish Ağıtlar Kitabı
uk	Ukrainian Плач Єремії
ur	Urdu کتاب نوحہ
zh	Chinese 耶利米哀歌

Best Rank

English: #64136 08.2024

Global: #31145 08.2024

Best Rank

English: #1847 10.2001

Global: #2103 10.2001

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