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    "figure_name": "Lament Complaint",
    "technical_name": "Lament Complaint / Protest Prayer",
    "alternate_names": "Complaint lament; how-long cry; why-question lament",
    "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
    "reader_category": "Poetry / Prayer Form",
    "bullinger_class": "Bible-specific poetic prayer form / lament",
    "simple_definition": "A lament complaint brings distress before God with questions, grief, petition, and appeal for deliverance.",
    "technical_definition": "A lament complaint is a prayer-discourse form in which the speaker addresses God from affliction, often using questions such as “how long” or “why,” naming distress, appealing to covenant mercy, and seeking divine intervention.",
    "source_hint": "Bible-study taxonomy extension; final review should distinguish complaint, petition, trust, and praise movements within individual laments.",
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      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Ps. 13:1-2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "How long, O LORD? Will you forget me forever?",
      "explanation": "The repeated question forms a complaint that brings perceived divine delay before God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
      "source_section": "Wave 12 Lament Complaint section",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
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      "figure_id": "FOS_0296",
      "figure_name": "Lament Complaint",
      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Ps. 22:1-2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?",
      "explanation": "The lament opens with a direct complaint of abandonment and unanswered crying.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
      "source_section": "Wave 12 Lament Complaint section",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and source classification before publication.",
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      "example_id": "EX12_1019",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0296",
      "figure_name": "Lament Complaint",
      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Ps. 42:9",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Why have you forgotten me?",
      "explanation": "The psalmist’s question voices grief while still addressing God.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
      "source_section": "Wave 12 Lament Complaint section",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX12_1020",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0296",
      "figure_name": "Lament Complaint",
      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Ps. 44:23-24",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Awake! Why are you sleeping, O Lord?",
      "explanation": "Bold complaint language appeals for God to act for His afflicted people.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
      "source_section": "Wave 12 Lament Complaint section",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and source classification before publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX12_1021",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0296",
      "figure_name": "Lament Complaint",
      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Ps. 74:1",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "O God, why do you cast us off forever?",
      "explanation": "The complaint interprets national devastation before God and asks why judgment continues.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
      "source_section": "Wave 12 Lament Complaint section",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "yes",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and source classification before publication.",
      "review_status": "needs_final_review"
    },
    {
      "example_id": "EX12_1022",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0296",
      "figure_name": "Lament Complaint",
      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Ps. 79:5",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "How long, O LORD? Will you be angry forever?",
      "explanation": "The complaint uses the how-long form to plead for mercy amid judgment.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
      "source_section": "Wave 12 Lament Complaint section",
      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
      "review_notes": "Draft-normalized; verify against final site Bible text stream and source classification before publication.",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX12_1023",
      "figure_id": "FOS_0296",
      "figure_name": "Lament Complaint",
      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Ps. 80:4",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "How long will you be angry with your people’s prayers?",
      "explanation": "The lament names the tension between prayer and continuing divine displeasure.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
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      "include_on_page": "yes",
      "representative": "no",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX12_1024",
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      "figure_name": "Lament Complaint",
      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Hab. 1:2",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "O LORD, how long shall I cry for help?",
      "explanation": "The prophet’s complaint asks why violence remains unanswered.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
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      "representative": "no",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX12_1025",
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      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Lam. 5:20",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "Why do you forget us forever?",
      "explanation": "The communal lament brings devastation and perceived rejection before the LORD.",
      "certainty": "certain",
      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
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    },
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      "example_id": "EX12_1026",
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      "page_slug": "lament-complaint",
      "reference": "Rev. 6:10",
      "text_excerpt_or_summary": "O Sovereign Lord... how long?",
      "explanation": "The martyrs’ cry uses lament complaint language in an eschatological setting.",
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      "source": "Own analysis / Bible-study taxonomy extension",
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