Lamentations 3 - Introduction

REVIEW OF CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR

1.

How does the acrostic pattern in this chapter differ from that of the first two Chapter s of Lamentations?

2.

Is the third chapter of Lamentations an individual or a collective lament?

3.

What is the meaning of the expression those forever dead? Lamentations 3:6.

4.

Does God always hear and answer prayer? Lamentations 3:8.

5.

What is the wormwood and gall? Lamentations 3:19.

6.

What thought about God became the foundation upon which the poet was able to reconstruct his hope?

7.

In what sense are the mercies of God new every morning? Lamentations 3:23.

8.

What is the yoke which a man should bear in his youth? Lamentations 3:27.

9.

In what posture did people in Old Testament times often pray? Lamentations 3:41.

10.

Does Jeremiah refer to his own personal experience in the cistern in Lamentations 3:53-54?

11.

Is it right for a Christian to pray for the destruction of his enemies? Lamentations 3:64.