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The prophet Jeremiah warned Judah for forty years of God’s impending punishment for her flagrant disobedience of his commands. The many messages of judgment, though, were mixed with promises of the mercy Judah would receive if only she would repent. The weeping prophet lamented over the people’s obstinacy and the resulting calamities, yet always reminded them of the hope they would find in God’s...

I now undertake to explain the lamentations of Jeremiah. Jeremiah sets before everyone things that they knew were true. We will quickly see that this way of stating things is quite different from other prophetic writings. There is no doubt that Jeremiah, after the city of Jerusalem had been destroyed and the temple burned, bewailed the miserable state of his own nation, so that he might show that even in such a disastrous state some benefit might be derived
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