The Incipit and Aleph, you can search YouTube for the whole thing.
As a bit of trivia, the Lamentations of Jeremiah are poety. Specifically, they are acrostic poems -- each verse starts with a subsequent letter of the Hebrew Alphabet. There are five chapters in the book of Lamentations, and each as a multiple of 22 verses, which is the number of letters in the Hebrew alphabet. Some translations of the Bible label the verses as Aleph, Beth, etc instead of numbering them.
The "Incipit" is "Incipit Lamentatio Ieremiae Prophetae" or "The beginning of the Lamentations of Jeremiah". "Aleph" is simply announcing the first verse. Not much theology in this clip but it's pretty!
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