The Book of Lamentations, traditionally read as a cry of despair over Jerusalem's destruction, reveals itself as a sophisticated meditation on creation and renewal through its carefully crafted structure. Hidden within its verses lies a deliberate parallel to Genesis 1: five chapters structured as six units of literary labor followed by compositional rest, mirroring the seven days of creation. Through close textual analysis and comparison with rabbinic literature, this research uncovers how Lamentations employs a precise arrangement of acrostic patterns—three single alphabetical acrostics, one triple acrostic, and a concluding twenty-two verse non-acrostic chapter—to echo the divine ordering of primordial chaos. This structural framework transforms the book's seemingly despairing content into a subtle message of hope, suggesting potential for national and personal regeneration. The interpretation finds support in midrashic literature, which explicitly connects Lamentations' final plea to "renew our days as of old" with Genesis' primordial world. Far from merely expressing grief, Lamentations emerges as a complex theological statement about divine creative power and humanity's inherent capacity for renewal, encoded in its very architectural design.