Is the Douay-Rheims the only English Bible that recalls Lamentations as a Hebrew acrostic poem like Psalm 118 (119)?
>That’s just the Baronius Press or 1899 American edition, or the 1750 Challoner Revision.
No, it’s in the marginal notes of the original 1610 edition.
https://archive.org/details/1610A.d.DouayOldTestament1582A.d.RheimsNewTestament_176/page/n1640/mode/1up

>>24557132 (OP)

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>>24557132 (OP)
I know that the CSB also does this, but I haven't seen it anywhere else.

>>24557161
I went and checked some translations.

The Geneva sez it in the heading, but doesn't have inline lettering. The 1611 KJV doesn't mention it. The NIV has a footnote mentioning it.

Other Bibles with inline hebrew letters for Lamentations are Jubilee, NET/New English Translation, Legacy Standard Bible.

The Voice Bible reworks the verses into English acrostics https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Lamentations%201&version=VOICE

>>24557132 (OP)
>Lamentations as a Hebrew acrostic
You mean semitic. Hebrew isn't the first semitic language to arrange its alphabet that way. It's definitely plagiarizing from an older pre-Aramaic source.

>>24557197
Perhaps I was too hasty in making my post. I only checked Biblehub by verse and not by chapter.
Now, I’ve checked all my English Bibles. The Collins white KJVs with covers, Holman bilingual KJV/ Reina-Valera, Oxford with Apocrypha, and Hendrickson 1611 edition all don’t have the Hebrew letters; I wonder which printed KJV does. The only ones that I’ve found that have the Hebrew letters beside the Douay-Rheims are Catholic Bibles (not Catholic editions like the RSVCE or NRSVCE but ones translated by Catholic scholars), namely the CTS Jerusalem Bible and the New Jerusalem Bible.

>>24557132 (OP)
>https://catholicbible.online/knox/OT/Lam
The Knox Bible does better, it makes it acrostic in English (stopping at V).
Knox the best, as usual.

>>24557197
>Voice
>>24558160
>Knox
I don't like it. Some of the letter sounds match up, but not zayin, tet, and everything from samech until the end. If you use a character set that changes u and v to be the same like the early Christians would have read it it isn't even an acrostic anymore. What I would have done is kept the hebrew letter and wrote a theme/commentary word next to it to sum up the verse!