challenge to repent of sins, personal, national, and international, and to commit ourselves afresh to God’s steadfast love. Though this love is ever present and outgoing, a holy and just God must surely judge unrepentant sinners” (The Wycliffe Bible Commentary, p. 696). Since Lamentations looks back in mourning to the destruction of Jerusalem, as the book of Jeremiah looked forward to that event with a solemn warning, Jeremiah’s poetry forms a perfect sequel to his prophecy.