Lamentations
PURPOSE: To teach people that to disobey God
is to invite disaster, and to show that God suffers when his people
suffer.
SETTING: Jerusalem had been destroyed by
Babylon and her people killed, tortured, or taken captive.
KEY VERSE:
My eyes fail from
weeping,
I am in torment
within,
my heart is poured out on the ground
because my people are destroyed,
because children and infants
faint in the streets of the city.
Jeremiah 2:11
CHAPTER 5 FOOTNOTE: A high calling flouted by
low living results in deep suffering. Lamentations gives us a portrait of the
bitter suffering the people of Jerusalem experienced when sin caught up with
them and God turned his back on them. Every material goal they had lived for
collapsed. But although God turned away from them because of their sin, he did
not abandon them -- that was their great hope. Despite their sinful past, God
would restore them if they returned to him. Hope is found only in the Lord.
Thus our grief should turn us toward him, not away from him.
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All footnotes taken from the Life Application Study Bible, NIV
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