REVIEW OF CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE 1. Does this chapter reflect a bitterness toward God be cause He has allowed and permitted the destruction of Zion? 2. In what sense was God responsible for the calamity of 587 B.C.? Lamentations 2:1-10. 3. What is meant by the phrases daughter of Zion, glory of... [ Continue Reading ]
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE A BROKEN PEOPLE Lamentations 2:1-22 In content, form and theology chapter 2 is a continuation of chapter 1. Like chapter 1, the second chapter is also a national lament but the focus here is on the entire nation rather than just on the city of Jerusalem. The poem is in acrosti... [ Continue Reading ]
II. THE PROPHET'S SINCERE SYMPATHY FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:11-16 TRANSLATION (11) MY eyes are spent with weeping, my inward parts are troubled, my heart is poured out to the ground because of the destruction of the daughter of my people, because infants and babies have fainted in the streets... [ Continue Reading ]
III. THE PROPHET'S EXHORTATION TO HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:17-19 TRANSLATION (17) The LORD has done what He planned. He has fulfilled His word which He decreed in days of old. He has torn down without pity, made the enemy rejoice over you and exalted the horn of your foes. (18) Their heart cried... [ Continue Reading ]
IV. THE PROPHET'S PRAYER FOR HIS PEOPLE Lamentations 2:20-22 TRANSLATION (20) Behold, O LORD, and consider to whom You have done this! Shall women eat their offspring, babes who are carried in the arms? Shall priest and prophet be slain in the sanctuary of the Lord? (21) On the ground in the stree... [ Continue Reading ]