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This chapter has 22 stanzas as does chapters 1, 2, and 4, but they are not alphabetical. This chapter records a prayer that is the end to the Lamentations of Jeremiah, a prayer that sums up the preceding 4 chapters. He prays for relief for the people from the bondage of captivity. He protests the people's lack of concern for God's House and finally, he asks for God to return His mercy upon Zion (Jerusalem).
This ends a book that was written to support and comfort a nation that was destroyed and it's people placed in bondage to another nation. It was a constant reminder that their sufferings was the result of their sins, it gave them a means of expressing their grief, it helped the succeeding generations to remember Jerusalem and it taught them to mourn sin and look to God for deliverance.
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