CHAPTER 2. A LAMENT OVER WHAT HAS HAPPENED TO JERUSALEM DUE TO THE LORD'S ANGER. This chapter also divides up into sections. In the first 9 verses the prophet describes in forceful detail what ‘the Sovereign Lord' (adonai) has done against Jerusalem and Judah, and he follows this up in Lamentations... [ Continue Reading ]
THE LORD'S ANGER IS REVEALED IN THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM (LAMENTATIONS 2:1). In these verses we have a description of how in His ‘anger' (antipathy towards sin) the Lord has brought destruction on Judah and Jerusalem both politically and religiously. He is seen as the cause of the Babylonian ac... [ Continue Reading ]
THE SAD STATE OF THE PEOPLE OF JERUSALEM (LAMENTATIONS 2:10). The prophet now describes in retrospect the sad state of the people of Jerusalem during and after the terrible siege. The elders were in mourning, the virgins hung their heads to the ground, the young children and babes collapsed with hun... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PROPHET ADDRESSES JERUSALEM RECOGNISING THAT THAT HER UNIQUE STATE IS SUCH THAT HE CAN OFFER NO COMFORT BECAUSE ALL IS AGAINST HER (LAMENTATIONS 2:13). The prophet sees the people of Jerusalem as being in a state never before experienced and as being unhealable. This is because their prophets a... [ Continue Reading ]
THE PEOPLE CRY TO THE SOVEREIGN LORD. THEY CALL ON THE WALL OF JERUSALEM TO WEEP FOR JERUSALEM AND ITS INHABITANTS AND ON YHWH TO CONSIDER WHAT HE HAS DONE (LAMENTATIONS 2:18). The change between Lamentations 2:17 and Lamentations 2:18 is abrupt. But the acrostic confirms that they are united. Lamen... [ Continue Reading ]