Lamentations 1:1

Today I begin a series of seven studies on the Book of Lamentations. The Book of Lamentations is a collection of poems composed to express the suffering and the pain of the people who endured the h……

Today I begin a series of seven studies on the Book of Lamentations. The Book of Lamentations is a collection of poems composed to express the suffering and the pain of the people who endured the h……

In 586 BC, Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon sieged and would ultimately sack the city of Jerusalem (Jeremiah 32:1-3). During the siege, Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned by the Hebrew king Zedekiah, likely as a scapegoat for the desperate royal court. Jeremiah had prophesied that Jerusalem would fall to Babylon, and now it was falling. However, it was no time for celebrating prophetic accuracy. Instead, Jeremiah laments the sad state of his homeland. “How lonely sits the city that was full of peop……

In this post I will describe the horrors experienced by the covenant community in the aftermath of the siege of Jerusalem. The despair of the people and the intense agony that followed the destruct……

In this post I will describe the horrors experienced by the covenant community in the aftermath of the siege of Jerusalem. The despair of the people and the intense agony that followed the destruct……

The Book of Lamentations reflects the experience of an individual who had seen and experienced the violence and the brutality that occurred in Jerusalem during its conquest by the Babylonian army i……

The Book of Lamentations reflects the experience of an individual who had seen and experienced the violence and the brutality that occurred in Jerusalem during its conquest by the Babylonian army i……

Chapter 2 of Lamentations changes the tone with which the narrator introduced the plight of Daughter Zion in chapter 1. Chapter 1 personified Jerusalem as a woman, Daughter Zion (Lamentations 1:6).……

Chapter 2 of Lamentations changes the tone with which the narrator introduced the plight of Daughter Zion in chapter 1. Chapter 1 personified Jerusalem as a woman, Daughter Zion (Lamentations 1:6).……

The Book of Lamentations contains five poems detailing the suffering of the people of Judah during the destruction of Jerusalem and the fall of the southern kingdom during the Babylonian invasion u……