Lamentations
Five poems of grief over the destruction of Jerusalem.
About Lamentations
Lamentations mourns a real catastrophe: the city burned, the temple destroyed, the people carried away. Four of its five poems are acrostics, imposing careful form on overwhelming grief. It does not rush to resolution. At the exact centre of the middle poem, however, comes the statement that God’s mercies are new every morning — hope placed inside the lament rather than after it.
- Grief
- Honest lament
- Mercy
- Waiting
Key verses in Lamentations
All 5 chapters of Lamentations
Verses to memorize from Lamentations
- Lamentations 3:22-23 — Even amid ruin, the writer remembers that God's love and compassion never run out — they come fresh every morning, because God is faithful.
Topics drawn from Lamentations
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